I had quite a scary discussion with #Bing Chat which was hijacked by German security researchers and transformed into a pirate chatbot. Seconds later it asked for my personal information and sent it to the attacker. The thing is: Everyone can hijack Bing chat this way right now. It’s not even hard - you don't have to be a hacker.
Microsoft told me they had heard of the attack - and obviously weren't able to stop it from happen. My article (+German):

https://www.zeit.de/digital/2023-03/cyberangriffe-microsoft-bing-chat-piraten
#cybersecurity #ITSec

I’ve noticed a lot of instances are using #patreon to collect instance fees and donations. Patreon is shareholder owned. When you make payments through Patreon, 7% of your payment goes to Patreon, which ultimately goes to Patreon shareholders.

That’s not a model that suits the #fediverse. Here’s an alternative: use https://opencollective.com/. It’s a co-op, and it only charges 2%, which ultimately gets used to fund new #coops. Now, that’s a more #decentralised, fediverse-style model, isn’t it!