@tehn00bi@Drusas always seemed like a bad road when Facebook et al managed to convince governments everywhere not to treat them like publishers in legislation. They choose what stories people see, and make money off people seeing them. What's a publisher again?!My local newsagent is subject to more laws about where they put the porn mags and display cigarettes than social media platforms are about who they show extremist content to.
@Holytimes wooooah.I thought voice controls not understanding women or accents was bad enough, but I forgot those things have eye trackers now. They haven't allowed for different eye shapes?!?!Insane.
@NikkiDimes@Wlm racism is about far more than tone. If you've trained your AI - or any kind of machine - on racist data then it will be racist. Camera viewfinders that only track white faces because they don't recognise black ones. Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands. Diagnosis tools that only recognise rashes on white skin.
@Miaou@ZkhqrD5o not the UK either. The Conservative party is nuts at the moment - and most right wingers are currently more in favour of Reform (aka Nigel Farage Ltd) who are even worse.
@Xenny@frongt it's definitely not good for words with any technical meaning, because it creates references to journal articles and legal precedents that sound plausible but don't exist.Ultimately it's a very expensive replacement for the lorem ipsum generator keyboard shortcut.
@Zombie@pasdechance of course it wasn't entirely scrapped - two of my friends (both also teachers) have children in the Wirral and Bucks, both of which still have grammars. They hate it for the psychological pressure, the financial burden (it rewards rich kids who get tutors) and the difficulty for local non-grammars to meet targets without a normal mix of students.Anecdotally: my mum passed and my uncle didn't, and I suspect it's affected their sibling dynamic ever since.
@G4Z yeah in principle I agree but in practice "the internet" is about 4 companies. Until there's more competition your data is being consolidated anyway. And the only way to get competition is to enforce regulation. I don't think this is good regulation but I don't see why we should have to do what Apple want just because they're big.Interestingly this comes at the same time as the smartphone-free childhood thing is gaining steam so there's probably a real-world solution anyway.
@oeuf@G4Z I realise it's never going to happen and there would be loads of other fallout I haven't thought about, but I think governments should be allowed to. They can in every other field - our booze laws aren't the same as the US's, why should our dick pic laws be?It might de-monopolise the industry a bit.
@mjr@plyth and of course Boris Johnson is bezzies with Lebedev, and likes to go drinking at his parties after shaking off his companions. And Boris has his own unique history with EU disinformation. https://archive.ph/qMEQo
@boonhet@0x0 they've got ten years from now in which they just need to remember not to buy a non-compliant one. The number of people still driving the same car they have now in ten years is small, surely.
@Redditquaza @rumschlumpel 6% drop last year though (admittedly not enough)https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/