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"Brand protection LLM" ridicules Microsoft on Fediverse (cyberplace.social)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet

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[–] -1 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

I hate AI and Microsoft as much as the next guy, but to me, this looks like a grey area. The name and logo (all most people will see of this account) aren’t really clearly parody… there is a faint smile in one of the squares, but at 16 pixels tall, you’d never see it.

“It came from somewhere else so I don’t have to respect a takedown notice” is not a valid defense.

This is certainly an interesting hill for the fediverse to choose to die on.

This could be an intentional first attack by big tech to get a knife into the fediverse. Showing a judge blantant disregard for takedowns isn’t a great look, and they have a LOT of lawyers.

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  • [+] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    That doesn’t matter, legally. They are hosting that data, they are the server it’s being served from, so they are legally responsible for that material. Being federated does not protect you from legal responsibility for things that your server serves up. Just because Lemmy can’t obey the law doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to (or result in potentially severe punishments). And it very much can. It can defederate from that instance.

    Why do think google search has to respect takedown notices? They aren’t hosting it, but because their server returns it in search results, it’s liable.

    Edit: they almost certainly ALSO sent one to lea.pet. We want to believe lawyers are greedy and evil and stupid. They are only two of those things.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Just simply move outside of the united shits' jurisdiction.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That’s definitely a good idea. I wonder where there is left to host servers that aren’t controlled technofacists. The world is rapidly, and sadly, running out. I feel like a count y could make a killing just by being a country of “we don’t care what the hell you host”

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It's hard to know it it's a parody because "update deletes data", "takes screenshots every 5 seconds and saves them in an unprotected folder" sound like parodies already.

    Microsoft just needs to stop sucking, then we can parody them.

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