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Chamomile 🐑4h ago

aaaaaa a dog 11h ago

"[person] makes a FINAL decision on gender"

but that's like the best thing about gender... you don't have to make a final decision

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Brian!18h ago

@TechConnectify thank you for your hard work

Chamomile 🐑16h ago

Kaitlyn~Ethylia Feb 23

Fun fact, "Celeste" is actually the name of the mountain, the girl is called "Celeste's Monster"

Chamomile 🐑18h ago

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)1d ago

The root problem with a lot of Fediverse moderation is a problem that is well known the reputation-system literature:

If the cost of creating a new identity is zero then a reputation system cannot usefully express a lower reputation than that of a new user.

A malicious actor can always create an account on a different instance, or spin up a new instance on a throw-away domain. The cost is negligible. This means that any attempt to find bad users and moderate them is doomed from the start. Unless detecting a bad user is instant, there is always a gap between a new fresh identity existing in the system and it being marked as such.

A system that expects to actually work at scale has to operate in the opposite direction: assume new users are malicious and provide a reputation system for allowing them to build trust. Unfortunately, this is in almost direct opposition to the desire to make the onboarding experience frictionless.

A model where new users are restricted from the things that make harassment easy (sending DMs, posting in other users’ threads) until they have established a reputation (other people in good standing have boosted their posts or followed them) might work.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC