With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it’s scary. And so I’d like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.
I personally hate it when I’m stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you’re reading this, the likely chance is you’re the same.
All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn’t of enough substance to be worth anyone’s time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won’t have to visit walled gardens so often.
Thank you :)
How’d you tell if you’re chatting to a bot?
Ai a pretty convincing now
Regulation, of course. Unlabeled bot on your platform? $100,000 fine. We’re not completely helpless.
It’s this the law or something you’d hope would happen?
It’s a suggested solution
How would they police it?
How would anyone know who’s a bot?
Prove it or you get a fine. Where the political will is there, this is all easy-peasy.
Prove what? That they’re bots, you mean companies would have to just admit it?
If there were a fine I think it would put some people off, or they would just try harder to hide it.
The whole point is that bots are hard to discover. If companies don’t want to state that they use bots, I don’t know how they will know who is using bots.
It seems like you’re just counting on people being honest or some how finding out. And I don’t know how they will find out or even if they can unless someone in the company whistle blows
In that case let’s just give up because obviously it will all be far too hard.
You are underestimating the resources that big companies already devote to complying with regulations and avoiding fines. To stipulate that every non-human voice on a social platform must be labeled as such or else, right now, that regulation does not even exist. It’s an obvious place to start and I am not the first person to say this.
Anyway, the conversation has moved on here, nobody else is listening, that’s enough from me. Good night.
That’s the point. It will be secret companies trying to persuade the general population.
I’m different companies, maybe out of jurisdiction.
I just don’t know i think we’ve crossed the Rubicon. It’s out the box now.
Maybe with worldcoin, we can scan retina’s and provide proof of humanity.
Otherwise. I think it’s pretty much really hard to control. And people/companies will get some regulations. Might hamper it a bit. But won’t stop it. Ie it could be from Russia or China. So it would only work if all cooperated and banned bot accounts. Which seems unlikely