"On the acceptance of GenAI"https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

[thain@mastodon.social]

@tante I would add something like "I accept that more of my company data leak to the United State".

[koantig@mamot.fr]

@tante
Oh *that's* what I should have used for our internal SOP!
Perfect

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@tante Bad framing.

There's no such thing as GenAI.

That's some lofty goal they're supposedly going to reach by investing the entire world economy into it.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@tante Never used it as I believe in empathy and creativity when communicating ️

[buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social]

@tante @ai6yr I wrote about this yesterday, Mastodon's decision to voluntarily downsize in the face of AI. I think it's sad, but I'll take the clue and start unfollowing.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@buckfiftyseven @tante So let me get this right. You are an AI fan, and you don't like people who are not fans of AI (for the reasons in that post), so you are unfollowing people who don't like AI? That's fine, I guess.

[buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social]

@ai6yr @tante That's a very shallow way to represent it. I would say I understand American copyright law, and I understand the contradiction of people who run ad blockers while claiming they support copyright law and the contradiction of people who run ad blockers saying that AI training is stealing.

Public domain exists. Open source exists. Creative Commons exists. And the body of law on fair use goes back quite a long time.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@buckfiftyseven @tante Ah, so you are saying if you are using an ad blocker, you are as wrong as the AI companies?

[jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com]

@ai6yr @tante

Honestly it was the "voluntary downsize" comment that got me.

Nobody wants to follow my hot takes and brilliant insights? Clearly, then, Mastodon must be what's pushing them away.

[buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social]

@ai6yr @tante it seems pretty similar doesn't it? Taking what you want from a website, regardless of the host's intentions?

[mrbase@phpc.social]

@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante I think most running an adblocker is doing so to block data brokers, not the ad itself. Privacy is as much part of the equation here as the actual ad.

[buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social]

@mrbase @ai6yr @tante we definitely ended up in an unsatisfactory situation with respect to ads, brokers, and blockers. There's no denying that.

It's interesting that no matter what your website license says, the courts say that the blockers are legal, filtering available content under some concept of fair use.

So we are back to what exactly are AIs doing that is stealing? We can give public domain data a clean pass. I think that they honor most open source and Creative Commons licenses 1/2

[buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social]

@mrbase @ai6yr @tante so we are into a muddy legal ground that will probably have to be battled out in the actual courts, about how a fair use doctrine invented in 1741 for copyrighted works applies forward now.

That's just the input side of course. On the output side it seems clear that too closely reproducing an existing work would be a violation as well.

2/2

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@mrbase
I'd allow an ad that's a static image. Ads as they come now are full untrusted bits of code running on my machine without me inviting them. Blocking them is a security measure.
@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante

[gbsills@social.vivaldi.net]

@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante Actually sites that don't want you to see their sites with ad blockers can easily do so.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@tante I don't use GenAI, I just try to find new and creative ways to break it.

[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]

@tante

None of these are true if you run your own LLMs on your own hardware, using FLOSS models.

But the #MastodonHOA has deemed all AI to be abhorrent as a blanket decision.

And frankly, if you exist in a capitalist society, and you're not an owner, there is 100% chance you are exploited. The capitalist system requires it.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@crankylinuxuser FLOSS Models (which are only freeware) fulfill most of those boxes. Trained on stolen data, massaged by people in global majority countries, trained in environmentally harmful data centers, outsourcing skills to the freeware product a company dumped on me, using a tool that is imbued and trained for how big tech wants to see the world, and effort could have gone to something meaningful. So yeah nope.

[kfort@social.sciences.re]

@tante I looove this! thanks!