David Gerardso who the fuck at Creative Commons is pushing the AI bullshit this month
(i've just been through the site seeing how they set up for this present fuckery, want to know more of the story)
here is some past fuckery
https://creativecommons.org/2024/07/24/preferencesignals/
> Generatve AI is here to stay
much neutral very CC wow
and more recently, for the present fuckery:
https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/
> A clear message emerged: many creators and communities feel uneasy about their content being used to develop AI without transparency and are seeking ways to regain agency. Our community has called on us to intervene with new tools that help rebalance power, ultimately infusing the AI ecosystem with reciprocity.
I am going to say straight up that whoever at CC wrote that last sentence was just fucking lying and nobody called upon them for any such AI bullshit.
who with a *name* who we can ask *questions* is asking for this?
remember that Creative Commons has fallen for NFT and shitcoin grifts before, when they let Filecoin bribe them into NFT land
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/26/creative-commons-is-shilling-nfts/
and EFF was crawling up coiners' arses at the same time too, reminding us that these are Silicon Valley libertarian organisations that are extremely into the corporate funding
hazel (debian is best)@davidgerard 100000% some AI startup is shuffling money to them just like filecoin
[object Object]@davidgerard even though you wrote this up in 2021, it’s still utterly damning and shattered my idea of what the CC even is as an organization. now I’m wondering how much of my previous idea of what they were (a nonprofit that serves projects like Wikipedia) was just marketing.
(tagging @xgranade since I saw your CC post last and this is very informative with regards to the AI crap they’re pulling now)
@zzt i mean they do have plenty of that! but fundamentally they came from the heyday of the Californian Ideology and are of that subculture
Gabe Kangas@davidgerard How do people keep getting won over by Filecoin? The Internet Archive really love them too. I don't get it.
Nemo_bis 🌈@gabek I wonder too. https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-cid-to-use-to-download-the-internet-archives-democracys-library-from-mainnet/18979
What CID to use to download the Internet Archive's Democracy's Library from mainnet?
I’m trying to use Lassie to download the End of Term 2020 Dataset but I can’t find any mention of the CID to use either on the latest announcement or the annual report or the previous announcement. If I download some of the files from AWS S3 and hash them, can I derive the CID from those hashes? Can I start from one CID and find related ones, for example everything sealed around the same time by the same storage provider? For example if I start from the first WARC listed, crawl-data/EOT-2020/s...
@gabek The Filecoin Foundation spread the totally not bribes around like water with the Silicon Valley nonprofits
your fridge inspector@davidgerard
i was creeped out by #eff #podcast being in favour of ai slop, comparing opposition to being against remixing and sampling. https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast
i was creeped out by #eff #podcast being in favour of ai slop, comparing opposition to being against remixing and sampling. https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast
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d@nny disc@ mc²@davidgerard eff is still calling the fediverse "dweb" literally today
@davidgerard dweb more like dweeb
Lnklnx 
@davidgerard Dammit, I'm an EFF member and did not know this. I need to rethink some shit.