This is not Discord “walking things back.” This is them further explaining the situation in more detail, and elaborating on how the new system will work. I understand the impulse to attribute this to outrage and Nitro cancellations, but this is just a better explanation, not a change.

Yes, cancel your nitro but also please understand that the ID laws in states are largely giving corporations a lot of "excuses" to do this stuff and you gotta take it up with your state reps. Call them and tell them ID laws are awful and hurt people. 5calls.org

{whispering} people convicted of violent crimes also do not deserve to live in these conditions

the whole age verification discord thing is shitty and comes as a surprise to a lot of people, but this is directly in response to governments age restricting children from the internet. i had to verify my age on many services months ago in australia. expect many other websites to follow.

The Israeli Knesset voted in favor of a death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners last year in its 1st reading. The bill will likely pass 2 further readings before becoming a law that formalizes Israel's ongoing killing of Palestinian prisoners. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)" I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer. It's not actually about the kids.

There are MANY middle class and (mostly white) working class Americans who still firmly believe women's lib came along, women foolishly demanded to enter the workforce to prove something, and that's the main reason wages and benefits went down and you can't have a one-income family anymore.

applied openly unequally atm. This current crop of fake "anti-hate" laws to protect the interests of a hateful minority at the expense of everybody else, including the larger group of Jewish people the genocide lobby are part of, are abominable after years of refusing to acknowledge anti-trans or...

could tell you that said violence has always been employed unequally, and if protestors are getting angrier and more inclined towards retaliation *now*, that would *still* be ultimately the responsibility of the state for outlawing the free speech that allows them to protest! The laws are being...

The "protestors were starting trouble" argument is something else that's reading more absurd the more you see it in Australia lately. Even if it were true, it wouldn't actually help to justify police violence, especially when literally any leftist with any engagement in these protests at all...

The idea that everybody on the planet must forever be beholden to the default of babysitter of other people’s children except for their actual fucking parents, and as a result any attempt to opt of non-consensual babysitting must include getting my identity stolen, is an idea that must fucking die.

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If you're gonna read any quote from an article on the game, let it be this one, because I think it sums up a lot of the feelings of fans pretty succintly

"relying on AI will mess up your brain" was already something I meant literally, but I have to admit I did not expect it to apply this literally. This is fucked up. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The essays are remarkably similar: insightful and well informed histories of capitalism, fintech, etc that point to an all-encompassing form of extraction, abuse, racism, and so forth. But rather than plot a form of resistance they imagine a fantasy world in which AI becomes a public good.

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

TL;DR/Moral of the Story/Whatever THIS is what MSFT and others are pushing. It's not a value add. It's a broken, planet destroying plagiarism engine built on theft. And now, it just makes unprompted changes to things we're responsible for. Why exactly? Reasons, I guess. Cast it into the sun.

And, yes. Grad Student should have checked. You're responsible for what you submit. But why should/would you expect a program to do something you didn't give it a command to do? It's like using =SUM in a spreadsheet and having Excel just create new numbers for funsies. 🧵👇

Turns out the bibliography checker was Agentic AI, which will just *do things* whether it was part of a user prompt or not. In this case, the AI platform *changed the names* of several articles in Grad Student's bibliography. No prompt. Just "bring titles in line with training data." 🧵👇

Prof. Keynote is genuinely shocked by this because they know Grad Student and know they do good, honest, thorough work. Why would *they* fake citations? So, Prof. Keynote calls Grad Student in for a talk. How did this happen? Why would you do this? Grad Student is horrified. They didn't do it. 🧵👇

AI platform comes back with the all clear, Grad Student turns in the project. Prof. Keynote checks the bibliography and notices, to their surprise, it's filled with fake references. Prof. Keynote knows this because there are references to work Prof. Keynote never wrote. 🧵👇

Grad Student is terrified because the bibliography needs to be in an unfamiliar format, so they decide to run their bibliography through an AI platform (Prof. Keynote won't say which one b/c they don't like to name specific companies, but it sounded like Grammarly) to check. 🧵👇

Prof. Keynote has a reputation for being something of a hardass when it comes to citations and references, both for professional and disciplinary reasons. Fair enough. Grad Student is asked to submit a bibliography for some huge project. Maybe their masters thesis, but it's a bit unclear. 🧵👇

Here's a real story I heard at a conference keynote from a speaker who thinks AI is wonderful. It's bonkers. So the speaker, Prof. Keynote we'll call them, wants to think about academic honesty in the age of AI. To set things up, Prof. Keynote talks about a grad student making a bibliography. 🧵👇

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

Please, don’t trust ANY anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit that refuses to support the labor rights of consensual adult sex workers. We know for a fact that criminalization leads to exploitation and trafficking. I would also be wary of those who fund such organizations.

So apparently soon I could face up to TWO YEARS in jail for political art that says “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” if someone "takes offence". This is what Crisafulli is proposing in QLD. Acceptable speech is narrowing in real time. And it's fckn terrifying.

iTalki now added to the list of language learning apps to avoid/delete. The *only* way we push back against AI (in this case to non-consensually record audio!) is to refuse to use it.

Part of the reason we have to so thoroughly shut them out is because if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile. It’s not just that for example Laurelai Bailey keeps returning under different names, it’s that every time she does she also starts another cult with herself at the head

Monsters constantly decry the court of public opinion but I frankly think they’d skate a lot easier if they made a full and frank disclosure of what they did, threw themself on that court’s mercy, and stuck by both decisions. But for some reason none of them ever do

Part of the reason we drive people who do really evil shit out of communities isn’t just that what they did was really evil. It’s that they seem to be absolutely allergic to admitting it, apologising, or stopping

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

The way people talk about e-bikes/motos in such hyperbolic terms drives home that this is simply a moral panic. Because if they actually cared about safety they'd reserve such rhetoric for cars.

Are they going to call for cars to be taken away and crushed too?

‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian https://alecmuffett.com/article/144675 #SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship

when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but "ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them. So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:

They're seriously trying the "actually it's good to be a pedophile" defense now.

literal cannibal pedophiles manufactured a moral panic, and you're willing to just... adopt their talking points and stances to better gain the votes of Nazis who HAVE THEIR OWN PARTY AND HATE YOU? Really?!

Finding out that a billionaire pedophile cult astroturfed the entire anti-trans movement makes me hate liberals who are willing to sell us out all the more. What the fuck do you mean you're not willing to oppose the work of the actual pedophile billionaires who EXPLICITLY made this happen? These

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

This is some bullshit. Never enter any contest like this.

YES THEY FUCKING ARE!!! Go fucking back, read what the colonists did to indigenous people, to my fucking people, and observe their contined abuse. Shame on you all, i hope you fucking choke.

funny to imagine these actually being Sony legacy characters cause none of the actors that voice for their big modern games will do it