[–] 12 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Does anyone know of any attempts out there of building more ethical AI models

There's Apertus. There's some concerns about its data pointed out on the repo still, but since you're just asking about attempts and more ethical, I think it still fits perfectly.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    I'm not really worried myself. This is just an initiative telling the government to implement legislation. We can always oppose that legislation with a referendum if necessary.

    I'm not too keen on the inciting violence part (because of how broad that is, imo people should be allowed to talk about eating the rich and such, but that does fall under that), but other than that those are definitely things that I believe we should signal to the government that we want action on that front. And that's what an initiative like this fundamentally does. It forces the government to address our concerns.

    Whether we accept the solution they come up with is a separate issue. I really doubt invasive stuff like age verification would pass here.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Seems to me this article is aimed at the national government?!

    Basically, this is a popular initiative. It's a mechanism in Switzerland through which the citizen can submit their own proposals for constitutional amendments, which the people then vote on and is binding when accepted.

    Usually this is used in the manner seen here, where the constitutional amendment requires the government to enact certain legislation.

    Ultimately any legislation to come of this will be subjected to a referendum if people care about it enough. So I'm not too worried personally.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

    I had this exact experience. The solution? Just loud subscribe to stuff and now I have 80 notifications a day about new posts which I struggle to keep up with. Clearly the fediverse isn't as inactive as I had the impression from just browsing it.

    The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can't do them either.

    Do all Lemmy frontends use those captchas? Might be a reason to recommend a different one by default.

    I do have to say, I bounced off Lemmy and Piefed mostly due to their UI and UX. I probably wouldn't have joined the fediverse if I didn't come across a kbin.social recommendation back then. Mbin is much more up my alley, though not ideal either, but it has worked out for me so far.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I do have to disagree with this post, I think it's you who need more research if you really think that kickstarter suggests they haven't heard of the fediverse.

    Haven: Better Instagram & YouTube, to Stop AI & Surveillance Social media that prevents Big Tech & AI from stealing your art, your biometrics, and your privacy. We're replacing Insta and YouTube.

    The fediverse does NOT prevent big tech and ai from stealing your stuff. it actually makes it easier. They just need a shell instance to subscribe to stuff and the fediverse hands everything to them for free, including your votes.

    I'm all for the fediverse myself, but that's because I don't personally care about this that much. If I did, I wouldn't want to be here where we're the most vulnerable out of anywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've been wanting to contribute for a long time, but my lack of experience in the tooling used, including PHP itself, has been scaring me off a bit. And I'm already prone to pushing things off, so yeah.

    This is certainly pushing it up my priority list, and I've already started looking into the technologies involved today, but I currently don't have a lot of time, so it'll probably be a while (read: a few months) until you'll see anything from me.

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