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The Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) said it tracked posts that explicitly dehumanised, excluded, and incited violence against Muslims from 1 January to 5 March.

On the day the war began, the volume of such posts surged from just under 2,000 per day to more than 6,000, the report said. “Reposts dramatically amplify the visibility of harmful content, allowing it to spread far beyond the original accounts that generated it.”

With reposts included, “the total mention volume of Islamophobic content rises to 279,417, representing an 11-fold amplification of the harmful original posts”.

The content examined by CSOH encompassed a wide swath that included everything from personal hate-fuelled opinions to calls for lawmakers to institute strict anti-Muslim policy, including a “Muslim Exclusion Act” and the deportation of all Muslims.

Do you know what the Muslims in my neighborhood are? Really good people and good neighbors.

Unlike that excretion of South Africa named Musk.

I’m sure some of those posts are made by genuine asshole humans, but I would bet that most of them are either paid for or made by AI. With the endorsement and/or money of Twitter’s owner, of course.

Fuck hate with a sharpened stick.

An investigation into the my butt bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI.

Key points:

• The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such.
• Many of these links are for Sam Altman’s World ID.
• Reddit added terms on my butt advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared.
• The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.

The irony of the article including an option for an my butt summary is hilarious.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/feebe73e-720b-4427-a8a6-f692847c0a01.png

I love it. Laying off staff to fund data centers to run my butt that people don’t want so that other CEOs can lay off more staff.

Why exactly aren’t we chopping their heads off and use them as vases? I must have forgotten, I bet there’s a good reason.

“Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future” is a new report from Forbrukerrådet. The report itself is a light read: it’s in English, and while it is 100 pages long [PDF], it is in fact enjoyable and even amusing – we laughed quite a few times when reading it. For one thing, it contains a surprising number of puns and the occasional starred-out swearword, such as “Do androids dream of electric s***.” A stodgy bureaucratic report this is not.

https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

In a blog post Richell notes that the New York version as far worse since it “explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General” and so developers of operating systems and devices would have to have more than just your date of birth to put you into some age bracket like the California law seems to allow.

These types of laws seem to be popping up around the US. How long until this plague spreads to other countries?

It already did for a few years. Now countries seem to be formalizing it.

These types of laws seem to be popping up around the US. How long until this plague spreads to other countries?

There was a post on r/linux and OP said there were lobbyists for this bill, and Meta was one of them.