FaelynnUpward

Thirty nine year old trans femme who is into things. What’re you… a cop? Going to uninstall for a while.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[theconcealedweapon]

If you want people to work in order to "contribute to society", then you support socialism. Capitalism is working to enrich the people who own the means of production.

[faelynnupward]

Right? People don’t have a problem with work. They have a problem with working more hours for less pay so that rich pricks can have five yachts.

If I was working and I could look around me and see how the people in my building or on my block or in my village benefited from that work, I think I would be much less dour about work in general.

It is working so 80% of the value of your labor ends up in a bank account on the other side of the country with a tiny cadre of suited middle aged white dudes controlling it and trying to figure out how to make it 85%.

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[faelynnupward]

This is heartwarming, as far as corporate support can ever be heartwarming at least.

Still… there is one thing that bothers me:

Chaps are, definitionally, ass-less. They were designed to be worn over pants to protect the legs from mud, rain, and dry brush scratches while on horseback.

There is no such thing as Assed Chaps. Assed chaps would just be pants made of heavy leather. Chaps are functionally Ass-less Pants.

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

[antique-scarecrow]

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[antiterfbutch]

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[theconcealedweapon]

[faelynnupward]

I can’t believe how sinister these clueless traitors try to make trans people seem with this kind of shit.

The random response is so on the nose it is amazing. I doubt a trans person could have come up with a better rebuke than for a cis het person to respond that “You’re all parasites, not just the T.”

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[faelynnupward]

No, the reason we're in trouble is that greasy rat finks like Mike Johnson have spent 50 years polishing rich guy knob by cutting taxes over and over and over again.

The ONLY people who have become more prosperous have been the rich.

[depsidase]

[vensuera]

It’s funny because that English man fails to realize he’s a part of the institution that taught the American patriot this behavior.

[faelynnupward]

It is a bit rich given that the Abolitionism movement in the UK only really kicked off in 1772 (Somerset v. Stewart) when it was determined that slavery had no legal or historical basis in British law. The UK made the sale of new slaves illegal in 1807 and slavery illegal entirely in 1833, so they were barely ahead of American Abolitionism.

Like "Oh those uncultured philistines in the US for not knowing what we know (as of three and half years ago)."

It is only worth remarking that Thomas Day is wholly correct in his assertion but he manages to be so in a way so uniquely English. That is to say in a deeply, eye-wateringly condescending way.

[depsidase]

[cream-chantilly]

@isuggesteatingtherich

[faelynnupward]

The fact that most of the companies pushing AI super hard have founders/owners/CEOs who were literally front and center at Trump's inauguration last year makes this feel less like a conspiracy theory and more like a small logical step. Half of those companies now have lucrative contracts with the government.

[butchflirt]

“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relents the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”

— Séamas Ó Conghaile, an Edinburgh-born Irish Republican and socialist, on King George V; a sentiment that transcends time. (via tal-eire)

[crescentalice]

you gotta be fucking with me, right?

[crescentalice]

literally doing the whole "I wish femininity was as impossible for me as it is for you!"

[catboybiologist]

[catboybiologist]

No but this post is actually insane. This is just mythologizing transfemme suffering

[faelynnupward]

I love how it is phrased like transfem people are generally intentionally trying to genderfuck and not that bigots all treat us all like men in skirts regardless of how we are trying to present (or even how well we present).

Like... I may be genderfucking with uptight straights who are cis because they are uptight straights who are cis but that doesn't mean I am not presenting as a woman. They/them'ing me for being "too manly" while praising me for genderfucking in a skirt isn't enlightened. It makes you a bigot just like the uptight straights who are cis.

Also, this is coming from the dudes who can take T for a year and grow a beard. Go buy a suit Annie Lennox/David Bowie style. Like damn. "I wish I had people as upset by my expression of my gender identity as trans women," is a fucking weird place to be at.

[depsidase]

[coolclaytony]

[animentality]

[animentality]

[faelynnupward]

I have literally been alone in the woods with a bear.

He stopped, looked at me, did that nose lift “I’m smelling you” thing, and then he wandered off into the woods. Bears are as smart as human toddlers. They aren’t attacking a human for the fun of it. They’re either starving or you’re on their turf. Either is pretty easy to solve.

With men ya just never know. You line up 100 men and 70 will be varying flavors of perfectly harmless. Of the remaining 30, 20 play nice but are working an angle. 10 are just straight up creeps and 5 of those are likely rapists.

I’ll take my chances with the bear.

[depsidase]

[faelynnupward]

[byjove]

Mormons watching fascist Christian supremacy spread in America: 🥰

Mormons when they are reminded that no one else thinks they’re Christian and practically every other denomination of Christianity hates them: 🥺

[drbigsadbabymd-blog]

I was really weirded out by the very fact that list goes out of its way to break down Christianity into EVERY denomination possible, but none of the other religions receive the same treatment.

Why is Judaism not broken down into Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, etc. Why isn't Islam broken down into Shi'a, Sunni and Ibadi. Why isn't Buddhism broken down into Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Why are they JUST "Judaism, Islam and Buddhism". There are big differences between these branches, but only Christianity is granted nuance. Every other religion is a monolith.

The messaging is so blatant.

[theconcealedweapon]

[cozycrimesimulator]

Every time I hear someone go, “they can just quit” I wanna mug them and explain, “you don’t actually have to give me your wallet; you can just get stabbed.”

[faelynnupward]

It isn’t even that because that gives them an easy option to get out of the stabbing.

It is like coming up to a game of musical chairs. 80% of the chairs have some amount of mud on them. 40% are just covered in mud.

The music starts and everyone rushes to take a seat. There are only so many chairs.

The music stops. Some people are mud free. Some people have a spot or two. Some people’s whole back and legs are covered in mud.

They complain and the response of the clean people is “You should have picked a different chair.”

Maybe there was two sets of music and the university grads got to pick chairs first. Only 60% of the players are university grads though. The 40% who aren’t were always going to either get no chair at all or they were going to get covered in mud. Switching to another chair doesn’t fix their problem because the only chairs left to them are caked in mud.

If an Amazon employee quits because pay and working conditions are poor, they end up in some other warehouse or factory that has similar material conditions. Or a retail place. Or a fast food place. There is no freedom of choice.

We as a society want Burger King to exist. We want Target. We want Amazon. We think the workers there should all just accept shabby treatment and awful wages.

We would, apparently, rather have trillionaires than working class folks having the dignity of a decent life.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Basically my primary frustration with a lot of mainstream left-ish framings of trans issues is the treatment of trans rights as a concession they're making to be nice, rather than a principled stance grounded in a real, material understanding of the world.

It leads to this attitude of being vaguely embarrassed to support trans people, which crumbles when Right Wing Dipshit Pundit #33145 starts going on about "harsh truths" that a competent advocate could call out for being incorrect.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"You are transphobic" as an argument by itself is a lot weaker than "You are demonstrably, unambiguously wrong about this issue. You have reached an incorrect conclusion despite having all the information needed to be correct, because you'd rather be transphobic than right."