even better stop joining major platforms like social media and then they won’t be able to create data sets. Be a leach, especially when they give it away for free, but don’t contribute to the project. Understand how it works, sure. But it seems like most of humanity says they don’t want something, yet they do the contrary. It’s like we choose to comply before we even ask to comply for the fear of missing out. But if you look at what is today, what are you really missing out on?
They can also crawl this publically-accessible social media source for their data sets.
I’m on board with abandoning mainstream social media, but my point is that your suggestion would not solve the problem just relocate it. A better solution to the AI conglomerates stealing everyone’s data from the open Internet is legislation and regulations - ie tackling the whole ‘stealing data’ component, along with stronger privacy regulations for everyone to make it harder for them to do the same in the future. It’s nice seeing the EU taking some positive steps, but we will not see the US take any steps in that direction anytime soon, due to corporate capture of their politicians and the AI companies all being in the top 10 most wealthy companies in the US.
even better stop joining major platforms like social media and then they won’t be able to create data sets. Be a leach, especially when they give it away for free, but don’t contribute to the project. Understand how it works, sure. But it seems like most of humanity says they don’t want something, yet they do the contrary. It’s like we choose to comply before we even ask to comply for the fear of missing out. But if you look at what is today, what are you really missing out on?
So, uh. What about Lemmy?
They can also crawl this publically-accessible social media source for their data sets.
I’m on board with abandoning mainstream social media, but my point is that your suggestion would not solve the problem just relocate it. A better solution to the AI conglomerates stealing everyone’s data from the open Internet is legislation and regulations - ie tackling the whole ‘stealing data’ component, along with stronger privacy regulations for everyone to make it harder for them to do the same in the future. It’s nice seeing the EU taking some positive steps, but we will not see the US take any steps in that direction anytime soon, due to corporate capture of their politicians and the AI companies all being in the top 10 most wealthy companies in the US.
Yet they helped introducing the super cookies and are trying to end encryption on communications.