Yeah, this article seems like an anti-Wikipedia article. They’re just using it for translation, spelling errors, content quality, etc.

Wikipedia’s model of collective knowledge generation has demonstrated its ability to create verifiable and neutral encyclopedic knowledge. The Wikipedian community and WMF have long used AI to support the work of volunteers while centering the role of the human. Today we use AI to support editors to detect vandalism on all Wikipedia sites, translate content for readers, predict article quality, quantify the readability of articles, suggest edits to volunteers, and beyond. We have done so following Wikipedia’s values around community governance, transparency, support of human rights, open source, and others. That said, we have modestly applied AI to the editing experience when opportunities or technology presented itself. However, we have not undertaken a concerted effort to improve the editing experience of volunteers with AI, as we have chosen not to prioritize it over other opportunities.

Tobacco companies are too. Cuz of vaping.

Not going to lie, I kind of love this.

Apple too, right?

You know, like any “free” app does. Wordpress can throttle who can see you as well. Unless you’re on world or similar, it’s pretty open on Lemmy.

I really like this idea. Being able to have a blog that directly feeds into Lemmy sounds great since Lemmy doesn’t really speak to a lot of other apps.

Do you mean like Wordpress? The upselling and throttling alone. I haven’t used it in years, maybe it’s better?

That makes your warranty expire faster. It’s not in the users favor.

I saw an ad for Amazon telehealth a couple of weeks ago. I’m not digging the times we’re in. I also hope we don’t look back on this time with nostalgia.

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.

This lawsuit is an existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything we preserve—including the Wayback Machine, a cornerstone of memory and preservation on the internet.

At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled.

This isn’t just about music. It’s about whether future generations will have access to knowledge, history, and culture.

They’ve been working on it for 20 years and now have been successful in the US. They’ve been working on Europe and Canada for at least 10 years as well.

I have a theory about all of this in the US and that they’re trying in Canada and Europe:

• In the US especially, our population growth is below replacement
• Minorities as a whole are taking over the population with Latinos leading the pack
• Racists in the Heritage Foundation, Republicans, Nazis, etc. don’t like that
• These Republican, Nazi, far-right, etc. take away abortion and contraception, so more US citizens have babies
• They then deport and/or cause fear for the Latinos so they leave or don’t come to America

TLDR: White assholes trying to make the US, Canada and Europe for “whites”* only.

*White definition may vary depending on if you have money or not

In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. This program relies on the AI to scrape people’s social media to revoke visa applications of people who have been protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As of early April 2025, at least 600 people have apparently had their visas revoked because of this AI monitoring, a massive incursion into people’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest.

The speed with which social media monitoring is growing is staggering. As of March 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been working with web-scraping contractor ShadowDragon to pull data from over 200 different sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.

Thanks, I’m going to have to think about this.

Do you use this? It looks amazing, but almost too good to be true.

I think Mojeek was missed for free search engines.

The other broligarchs looked around Zuck’s bunker and couldn’t understand how it had gotten this bad. The expressions on their faces, one by one, changed to horror realizing that this is what they signed up for.

Project Nimbus: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-idf/

I’d say it’s more like a right that’s been taken away and they’re okay with that.

For me, I temp ban because it makes it more easy to do. I don’t wrestle with whether or not I’m doing the right thing. Instead, I know it’s only temp so no one was harmed if I make a mistake. It’s more for me to take out the trolls early on.