For years, politicians from across the political spectrum insisted the Online Safety Act would focus solely on illegal content without threatening free expression. But from the moment its age-verification duties took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to unravel.
  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    17 days ago

    X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.

    Oh my god… it doesn’t work that way!

    The chatbot doesn’t know who restricted the video or how it was restricted. The chatbot doesn’t know anything, it just calculated that based on its training data “Yes the video was restricted due to the Online Safety Act” was a likely answer and then it spit that out.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      17 days ago

      Not reporting on it kinda lets X have it both ways though. They can curate it to be a spokesperson and default to spreading a certain message to users, but if the media reports on it spreading that message it’s suddenly out of context because it’s just a fancy autocomplete.

  • Naich@lemmings.worldEnglish
    10·
    17 days ago

    People should be aware that the Free Speech Union is run by fuckwit spherical slaphead Toby Young.

  • Safeguard@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    17 days ago

    And there it is. The unintended consequence that these mf’s definitely intended to happen.

    Want a certain law? Create a problem with that law as the solution. The created problem that is not a problem: oooeeeh ThE chILdreEeennnn…

    Fuckers.