#facebook

See tagged statuses in the local bookrastinating.com community

"It's not that trapped us by hacking our , they trapped us by making sure that once our were there they could not leave." @pluralistic

Take a moment to watch this interview of with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrKlp_Iiko

Who had, "I may be getting laid off, and I learned about it on the Fediverse" -- On their bingo card?

Because I sure did not.

Honestly, I am not 100% sure if this impacts me directly or not. But even if it does not today, I do have that feeling it is not going to stop here.

Now, is a good time to remind everyone, Universal Basic Income really should be a thing. Because AI is going to replace, you -- Yes, you -- If not today, someday soon.

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RE: https://cyberplace.social/users/GossiTheDog/statuses/114603056273407760

US authoritarianism and the EU's tech dependencies

The EU's list of tech dependencies on the US is long and the path to independence is arduous. But our authors believe that the EU must take it.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/US-authoritarianism-and-the-EU-s-tech-dependencies-10386065.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

quoted The AI Con by Emily M. Bender

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna: The AI Con (Hardcover, 2025, HarperCollins Publishers)

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls …

Data workers, for their part, have formed collectives to fight back against platforms and their worst excesses. In Kenya, Daniel Motaung and 150 workers convened in Nairobi in mid-2023 to form the African Content Moderators Union, which is one of the first unions of content moderators and data workers worldwide. Motaung was fired from Sama, the contractor providing Facebook (and, previously, OpenAl) with content moderation and other data work, for his organizing efforts, and is now suing Facebook and Sama in Kenyan court.

— The AI Con by ,

#DanielMotaung, hero.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #sama #meta #facebook #OpenAI #AfricanContentModeratorsUnion

Facehook: We've deactivated your account until you record a video of your face.

Older person who only uses Facehook on a PC without a webcam: Sigh. I guess I'll stop using Facehook.

Real story. I'd say well done, Facehook, for finally getting awful enough to drive away your key demographic, if it wasn't tragic how modern society and technology treats people like trash.

À partir du 27 mai, Meta va utiliser les données des comptes Insta, FB et Threads publics pour entraîner ses modèles d'IA générative.
Ce week-end, sur insta, j'ai donc fait un tuto à l'arrache pour celle.ux qui voudraient s'y opposer.

Vu le succès de l'outil, je l'ai remis au propre pour Next :
https://next.ink/181773/tuto-comment-empecher-meta-dutiliser-vos-donnees-pour-entrainer-ses-ia/