• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    It is time to start holding social media sites liable for posting AI deceptions. FB is absolutely rife with them.

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      7 hours ago

      YouTube has been getting much worse lately as well. Lots of purported late-breaking Ukraine war news that’s nothing but badly-written lies. Same with reports of Trump legal defeats that haven’t actually happened. They are flooding the zone with shit, and poisoning search results with slop.

    • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      Disagree. Without Section 230 (or equivalent laws of their respective jurisdictions) your Fediverse instance would be forced to moderate even harder in fear of legal action. I mean, who even decides what “AI deception” is? your average lemmy.world mod, an unpaid volunteer?

      It’s a threat to free speech.

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        6 hours ago

        Just make the law so it only affects things with x-amount of millions of users or x-percent of the population number minimum. You could even have regulation tiers toed to amount of active users, so those over the billion mark are regulated the strictest, like Facebook.

        That’ll leave smaller networks, forums, and businesses alone while finally giving some actually needed regulations to the large corporations messing with things.

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            41 minutes ago

            Proton isn’t social media.

            If you can’t understand why big = bad in terms of the dissemination of misinformation, then clearly we’re already at an impass on further discussion of possible numbers and usage of statistics and other variables in determining potential regulations.

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            2 hours ago

            Proton is not a social medium. As to “how high”, the lawmakers have to decide on that, hopefully after some research and public consultations. It’s not an unprecedented problem.

            Another criterion might be revenue. If a company monetises users attention and makes above certain amount, put extra moderation requirements on them.

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            1 hour ago

            Yeah, I work for your biggest social media comoetitor, why would I not just go post slop all over your platform with the intent of getting you fined?

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        12 hours ago

        Also, it would be trivial for big tech to flood every fediverse instance with deceptive content and get us all shut down

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      14 hours ago

      I think just the people need to held accountable as while I am no fan of Meta, it is not their responsibility to hold people legally accountable to what they choose to post. What we really need is zero knowledge proof tech to identity a person is real without having to share their personal information but that breaks Meta’s and other free business model so here we are.

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      15 hours ago

      Sites AND the people that post them. The age of consequence-less action needs to end.