They've got to be at least 75% of /r/worldnews.
WanderingVentra
joined 10 months ago
The more alternatives to corporation owned social media the better! I hope it takes off, but I've never really been a Tumblr guy.
I didn't know they were still doing this. I remember jokes in Parks and Rec about this forever ago.
Oh definitely. If they used her voice in that way, not okay at all. I'm not sure if they have because I keep seeing contradicting arguments, but if they did, 100% agree with you that just because it's out there, doesn't mean you can take it and profit on it.
They could easily make it based on publically available voice data, especially for an actress of her fame. That's how they were able to create AI versions of Biden's voice and other famous people.
That doesn't mean they did, but your first sentence implies they couldn't have, when they very easily could if they wanted to.
Oh I don't remember seeing that anywhere. You got a link with more info on that?
They basically do, as revealed by Snowden documents when the US forced American companies like AT&T, Microsoft, or Google to let them spy on their users. I don't even think Tik Tok stores their user data in China servers, it's in Texas or Virginia or Singapore.
Haha I guess so
Well that escalated quickly...
The Reddit strategy? Genius!
Same, but if you're used to the more moderated nature of lemmy.world, just be aware that lemm.ee isn't as quick to defederate from other instances. Personally, for me that's a plus, and it's the reason I chose this instance. Bring on hexbear, lemmy grad, and exploding heads. I don't care. I want to hear what everyone has to say, and I can block people or instances if I have to (through Lemmy and the apps I use like Sync and Voyager). But if you don't want to, there are lots of other instances that defederate from those places but still federate to the piracy instance.
The problem is that someone has to host the data. That will always be true. Even in the cloud, someone has to own the servers that the data are on. The only solution I can see is something basically like what we have the fediverse, only where other instances are sharing copies of the same community and the posts on it, kind of preventing one place from having ownership of it. But then if the instance goes down or gets defederated, I suppose you'd still have different versions of it floating around, plus the problem of someone posting CSAM and it getting pushed to all the instances and stuff.
Still, I agree that I think the closest solution is going to be something like the fediverse we're seeing now. I just don't know how to solve the problem of overzealous mods still, because we need mods. Having some democratic control over modding seems dangerous, too. Imagine a place gets brigaded by The Donald at 3am and everyone wakes up to their community being totally different. Or sometimes people are just wrong, like we have the problem of pre October 7th where 99% of the US believed Israel was a golden angel thanks to propaganda and dismissed all criticism. Same thing with socialism in the 50's, or racism. Democratic modding at the time would lead to MLK getting banned lol.
It's definitely an issue, because the ml mod and mods like them are way too trigger happy on the bans, but it'll probably take some time to think of good solutions, and lots of experimenting with new forms of social media, like the fediverse.