Peter Bronez

@abaci @mojo 100% worth it for me.

I switched from Google to #DDG to #Kagi. Even if the results were exactly the same, Kagi is FAST. The whole experience is very snappy.

Beyond that:

- All your DDG bangs work, and you can add custom bangs

- They have some neat AI summarization features.

- You can manually boost/penalize/block domains

- Lenses focus your search on particular kinds of sites

@Nougat @trashhalo @technology this is literally why short-term disability insurance exists.

@esaru @bmaxv @technology concur that this reduces privacy for users of Jitsi’s hosted service. It also has some concrete benefits for Jitsi - they get to outsource account validation and security. Perhaps they were struggling to contain abuse.

@Unsustainable @bananahammock @technology

A “Matrix Bridge” is a computer program that connects to an arbitrary service and presents it as Matrix service. You can connect to that Matrix service with any Matrix client.

For example, this code connects LinkedIn messages to Matrix: https://github.com/beeper/linkedin

Beeper runs Matrix bridges for you as a service. If you don’t want to use that service, you can self-host the bridges.

@Unsustainable @bananahammock @technology Matrix is a protocol for real time communication. Several companies build products using this protocol, including Elemental, Beeper and Rocket Chat.

This is similar to how ActivityPub is a protocol for federated social media. Many projects are built using ActivityPub, including Mastodon, PixelFed, and Lemmy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)

@donuts

For example, image search has been contentious for very similar reasons.

1. You post a picture online for people to see, and host some adds to make some money when people look at it.
2. Then Google starts showing the picture in image search results.
3. People view the image on Google and never visit your site or click on your ads. Worst case, google hot links it and you incur increased hosting costs with zero extra ad revenue

@throws_lemy @SSUPII @technology

@donuts

I certainly think that a Generative AI model is a more significant harm to the artist, because it impacts future, novel work in addition to already-published work.

However in both cases the key issue is a lack of clear & enforceable licensing on the published image. We retreat to asking “is this fair use?” and watching for new Library of Congress guidance. We should do better.

@throws_lemy @SSUPII @technology

@donuts would you please share your thinking?

I certainly agree that you can see the current wave of Generative AI development as “scraping and stealing people’s art.” But it’s not clear to me why crawling the web and publishing the work as a model is more problematic than publishing crawl results through a search engine.

@throws_lemy @SSUPII @technology

@SSUPII @DigitalAudio the most useful resource I’ve come across is this Philosophy Tube video: https://youtu.be/AITRzvm0Xtg

👉🏼“AI stole my book/art” is not that different from “show me in the search results, but only enough that people click through to my page”

👉🏼 “AI is taking all the jobs” is not that different from “you outsourced all the jobs overseas”

👉🏼 “the AI lied to me!” is not that different from “that twitter handle lied about me!”

The main difference is scale, speed and cost. Things continue to speed up, social norms and regulations fall behind faster. #ai

@SSUPII @throws_lemy @technology

@SSUPII @throws_lemy @technology concur.

Skynet is a red herring.

The real issue is that #AI is putting more stress on long-standing problems we haven’t solved well. Good opportunity to think carefully about how we want to distribute the costs and benefits of knowledge work in our society.

@SemioticStandard Kagi. I used DDG for a long time, and Kagi is strictly better. Specifically, it’s very snappy and I trust the privacy guarantees even more since I’m a paying customer.

@Dandylion @JshKlsn @technology I’m interested in a Fediverse Reddit alternative. I’m familiar with Lemmy as a software project, but not as a community. Beehaw is totally new to me.

What are these projects aiming for community-wise? What is needed to help them grow?

And critically: Who is paying hosting costs and handling DMCA issues?