We never could depend on it. But when a machine is broken, the solution of throwing out the entire machine and getting a new one may not solve the problems, and there's a high risk of having new and worse problems. The better initial plan is to figure out the parts that are causing the failure, analyse why those components broke, and adjust the design with more robust parts and better error handling.
The problem isn't always the laws, many of them are very pro-society. The problem is which laws are created or challenged, by whom, and how often. Currently laws are prioritised by money when they need to be prioritised by impact and scale. The thing we can no longer depend on is our economic system.
My personal theory is that if we change the motivation, we change the outcome. 100 years ago the world moved mostly from the Gold standard to GDP as a measure of money's value. Instead of measuring only productivity, let's measure social metrics too. We can't solve greed, but we can force people to pay for harm, and we can reward actions that collectively benefit everyone.
not if government is frozen in a tug of war between the left and the right. sorry bud. conservatives have to go in order to accomplish anything. i don't see any way around that other than, at the very minimum, reeducation camps.
not if government is frozen in a tug of war between the left and the right.
Oh, you must be American, sorry, I was thinking a little more globally than that. Institutional corruption and capitalism are very worldwide issues.
Your country definitely has a unique problem that needs to be solved, but I was sort of hoping the rest of us who rely on laws and their existence to survive wouldn't have to also die in the course of fixing that problem.
Globally changing the definition of value and money would be hard, but it's been done before, and would have far wider reaching impacts across global industries including but not limoted the legal, political and religious industries.
I’m not sure it’s that as much as it’s Swift’s potential ability to sway public opinion and/or hire an army of lawyers to really bog down X.
It sucks that it’s happening to her (or anyone for that matter), but her status may be great enough for the law makers to move on this. Also, he status is definitely great enough to force Musk to do SOMETHING, at least superficially to appear as though X isn’t just a more polished 4Chan.
It’s not a lesson learned. X will be legally liable for damages. They are setting up a team of moderators to mitigate that liability and show lawmakers they can regulate themselves so they can head off potential regulations.
Much like his PR visit to Concentration camps Musk is doing it to escape consequences.
Trust and Safety was a key reason major brands were comfortable advertising on Twitter.
The financial consequences weren’t from getting sued, but Pfizer won’t run ads after they let “Pfizer” go viral for saying insulin is free and started placing their ads alongside Nazi content.
500 million tweets per day in 2013So, yeah, that’s only 10,000 per minute per moderator for an 8 hour shift. I’ve doomscrolled pretty hard, but not that hard.
Twitter always does this shit when it comes to politics they don’t like. They outsourced content moderation to the same time zone as Tel Aviv and St. Petersburg are in about 2 years ago. I reported an abusive, harassing argument after defending the victim and I’m the one who caught the ban, 2am local time. Appeals got ignored for months. I hope they lose everything.
Recently a 14 year old girl killed verself because boys at her school had made AI nudes of her. This is a bigger problem than you think, one that affects women everywhere, and it hitting Taylor Swift means just maybe something will be done about it. It’s already caused Erin to realize he’s got to have at least a token safety team. Just because all you see is Taylor Swift and not regular, everyday women and girls, doesn’t mean this is unimportant or not an actual, serious problem.
Then today, Elon banned searching for her name entirely because of it
He says it's because of the deepfakes. But the right was absolutely furious when Taylor simply told people to register to vote, and neo-fascist Musk is absolutely going to take the opportunity to diminish her reach.
The AI porn (in the collection of the Twitter AI fakes I found) wasn’t even very good. I’ve seen far better Photoshop fakes. So I’m not saying it’s cool, but I don’t think AI has moved the bar for fake celeb porn.
I could generate 30 fake images of TS in an hour on the computer in my basement. Way more if I paid an online service. I don’t need someone else generating them. But if I wanted to see fakes of her naked, I could find 100 pics in a Google search which at least all have the correct number of fingers and legs. But in reality I don’t find fakes of any variety hot at all. I’d rather see a normal person willingly pose nude than a celebrity fake.
I couldn’t give a shit about the nudity or AI angle. But when you use someone’s body, fake or real, to harass and humiliate them or share something that is then used to harass someone, you should be held financially and/or criminally liable for that behavior as circumstances dictate.
It’s like 2 ppl with work visas chain smoking, on uppers, and haven’t slept in 3 days just adding an if statement for any search with Taylor swift to return none. They then tell musk to search to prove they fixed it cause they still gotta MacGyver the house of cards that is X’s code base.
A couple of the photos were pretty hot. Flattering. I would say one-third to half of them didn’t quite get her face right for some reason. All the Muppet picture ones were crystal clear, perfect details, and kinda funny just on account of being completely absurd. 😂
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