The majority of pro AI spam on the fediverse gets spread by just a handful of accounts. Usually it is people posting to one of the big “tech” pages from pro-AI PAC websites (that 74million dot org bullshit for example) or one of the billionaire mouthpiece outlets (futurism, ars technica, biz insider), and then they cross-post and repost everywhere else.

This strategy makes it so the only ways to stop seeing the shit is to get really good with personal filters or (more likely) users will block the spammer account and the communities that allow them. Notice how both of these methods also tend to block people who are bashing AI.

Seems like a behavior we need to figure out how to call out and get mods to help with? I guess Fuck AI people should start volunteering to mod Tech news? Oh no, what have I logically walked myself into…

  • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    82·
    4 days ago

    It seems like you’re exploring how AI spam spreads and how people handle it online. Your observation about AI content being spread through personal accounts and broader communities is an important consideration for ethical AI development.

    …jk lmao that was AI-gen. I think blocking accounts is good enough? At least that’s what I tend to do. Although it’d be helpful to have some sort of community-driven list of accounts that you could automatically import and block. Actually it would be helpful with more than AI spammers: we could have a list of trolls, lgtbq+phobes, etc. That way one could easily find and block whatever they don’t like, without getting the mods or admins involved (although that’d still be necessary for obvious rule violations, of course).

    I don’t understand why you say that’s prone to blocking people who are bashing AI though… like, if they spam AI content I imagine they tend to praise AI as well? Idk, maybe I didn’t understand you.

    • ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      31·
      4 days ago

      you say that’s prone to blocking people who are bashing AI though… if they spam AI content I imagine they tend to praise AI as well? Idk, maybe I didn’t understand you.

      Exactly this. For example, CMU is currently under the extreme corrupting influence of Palantir. However when CMU pushes AI propaganda, the various outlets adjust their headlines to frame it for clicks, whether that be “AI is WRONG 60% of the time! That’s why we need to use it anyway.” or “AI is RIGHT 40% of the time! Does that mean it has a soul???”

      These shitty articles then end up everywhere and CMU gets to spread their propaganda to people who have whatever range of opinions.

    • SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      4 days ago

      Well yeah the funniest thing is that in this community there are those who think that AI is just a tool and not a problem, and one of them openly argued with the moderator and was kicked out of this community, by the way, this happened recently lol. :3

        • SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          45·
          4 days ago

          Well, I don’t know, I’m just hinting at a possible future. Corporations lately think they can do anything, so i wouldn’t be surprised if the worst happens.

            • SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              36·
              4 days ago

              Okay, it seems you didn’t get it, a real human moderator won’t do anything to you unless you do crazy things or talk about forbidden topics.

              I just expressed my opinion, you can ignore me if that’s convenient for you.