🚫 If internet access demands ID checks, age verification, vaccines, KYC, chat surveillance, or SIM registration... is it still a "PUBLIC space"?

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@nixCraft AI isn't all doom and gloom. It does have its uses. However, humans resigning from knowledge on the merit of AI built upon human knowledge will soon become a snake eating its own tail. For without continued advancement of human knowledge AI opens the black hole on humanity.

@rvaughnmd @brandhack @nixCraft

I've used Slackware, RedHat/Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Debian, Kali and others. I had fun. What stuck with me was KDE Desktop & Snapper Rollback. Never really vibed to Gnome. I've been OpenSuse since 2020, but it's not for everyone. I recommend Linux Mint if you're fresh into Linux from Windows. Linux isn't really that hard to learn, but you won't know what's important until you try a few.

@tanyel_brkah

Cheers to that concept. Every client should be a server to reduce gatekeeping. So on with independence and self-hosting. That's what we've chosen!

@nixCraft THIS is a problem, because AI often quotes popular opinion over facts, even in legal advice, quoting jurisprudence above actual law. A huge percentage of people will never verify until their eyes are opened.

We must keep factual sites and archives alive despite the AI overreach until humanity catches up.

Our kids need us to be immovable despite AI hype, slop, and bias, if we shall ever want to maintain some bit of truth.

@Tutanota I'm behind this, but many still believe censorship is for protecting children. A side-effect to pushing digital ID & age checks is to virtue signal parents they can rely on digital nanny services while never really following through with the actual protections. It is false advertising, deceptive, and removes the responsibility of parents being aware of their children's exposure on the Internet. Age verification isn't needed when parents are involved with their children's welfare.

@nixCraft Definitely. What about the many artists out there trying to copyright their music and are getting rejected because AI already cloned their work?

I think AI is becoming an excused digital piracy tactic that inches us close to 2030 where we will own nothing and be happy, simply because AI has siphoned and homogenized low to middle class creativity, value, & uniqueness.

Rather than a tax, why doesn't AI platforms compensate humanity's efforts?

@troy_frizzell @nixCraft for sure the only winning move.

While enjoying benefit of AI in some respect, it needs human supervision for correctness. How a human can be more accurate than hundreds of clustered servers consuming precious resources, is beyond me.

On our servers I've banned all AI scraping to protect customer's intellectual property until a time where AI platforms can refrain from creator content siphoning or at minimum compensate for selling.

Hoping the humans ditch the A in AI.