A well backed as usual peice by Benn Jordan on the basics of how misinformation farms work according to their own internal documentation, the goal of creating a post truth world, and why a sizable percentage of twitter users start talking about OpenAi’s terms of service every time they update it.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Hmm… That could be an issue, you’re right.

    If it does get that bad, we’d gave to act more defensively by only federating with instances that have reviewed sign-ups and have received an endorsement on fediseer.

    That would result in a more isolated experience, but if that’s the only way to combat it, then we’ll have to shift with the needs of the moment to keep it mostly humans we’re interacting with, and to make the moderation workload manageable.

    • DennisEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      It has started already and its coming from lemmy.ml, you can check how news-related posts align with this admin’s (davel) profile, if you post anything contrary to it, you’ll notice a lot more downvote than news-related communities outside lemmy.ml

      Here’s some sample of what he spreads:

      https://midwest.social/post/19339660/13589968 Under replies

      His profile is full of Chinese and Russian propaganda