The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet
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They don’t really understand their user base either
Look ma, my instance is being threatened! Proud to be on the instance of Mastodon CEO 🥹
Ok but fr, MS please don’t shut down cyberplace.social I just switched to there like a few months ago.
Does Microsoft understand anything? At all? They suck at making software, the suck at making operating systems, they suck at making genAI, they suck at making game consoles, they’re starting to suck at owning github, what don’t they suck at? What part of their business is done better than anyone else? What end user experience is better on an MS product than anywhere else? They have a shittier alternative to literally everything and nothing truly good.
let them sue, parody is fair use. get that bag king
AI putting copyright troll lawyers out of jobs? Best use I’ve heard of yet.
this is why niche stuff on fedi is so funny sometimes. especially when a corporate entity tried to approach it, in the most corporate way lol.
I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.
It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.
I don’t know. You may be generally already protected to some degrees by existing laws for users interacting with your site. This time it’s just users interacting with your site via another server. If you defederate from bad instances and have a good DMCA system, you might be okay.
Although, this type of thing could be one of those things that’ll take a court case or updated legislation to solve.
IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.
As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.
AT proto’s PDS architecture does solve that 👀
Edit: I do want to say that after reading this blog post I have become a bit more lenient on ATProto. It seemed rather neutral and objective and found several upsides that I think are worth taking a look at.
Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?
yes
No, but if it did you could control where your data lived, because people do host their own PDS iirc for bluesky.
wdym they not have federation yet, there are independent servers for every service (e.g. pds, relay, appview, moderation) except for PLC
Yeah, if.
Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.
After forced to switch to Microsoft teams, I became their PM and developers are alien origin.
Like, some of the logic doesn’t make any human sense. Like, LLM slop would’ve done better.
Microsoft is such a horrid company.
The instance rules state;
3 . No impersonation of a person or a brand. Even parodies.
6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.
Now I’m not coming to the defense of a corporation because fuck corps but wouldn’t this account violate those rules? Microsoft is a (shitty) brand and this is a parody of that.
I might be wrong but thats how I would interpret those two rules.
And again fuck microsoft, even if it does violate the instance rules it should be left alone just to piss of a shitty corp.
Edit: As TherapyGary pointed out, the instance they are on has no rule pertaining to parody accounts, My bad.
It’s not hosted on that instance. It’s hosted at another instance. You’re making the same mistake that the Microsoft bot AI did.
Is it a mistake? Wouldn’t federated content still count the same way legally, since an instance is also a website?
Yeah, I literally made an edit admitting it so thanks for wasting your time pointing it out again.
I believe the Microsoft account is hosted on Lea.pet, which doesn’t have those rules
Mrrrrp :3
pats
don’t harass people if there isn’t a valid reason for doing that
what a nothing rule lol, every harasser believes they are justified
This rule is my favorite lol
I like rule 8
could be a rule break of number 9
are we sure on the English translation?
@Una@europe.pub pls translate
“Reject humanity emprace meow meow mrrrp :3”
Ah I see, thanks ☺ Good kitty
meow meow :3
Poor Ubuntu.
Some might argue it requires a terminal level of brain worms to understand what is being said with rule 8. But I for one find beauty in this exactly level and flavor of petty, and I come to the fediverse for it.
What does DNI mean?
Do Not Interact (with us) lol
:D
Also, what’s a valid reason for harassment?
Presumably using Ubuntu is one of them lol
Fair point, I didn’t know those rules weren’t on lea.pet. That’s on me I should have checked, my bad.
Quick, everyone make a million parody accounts to troll microsoft harder.
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6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.
“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”
-Jay-Z regretting his words
You’re making the same mistake Microsoft made
Stupid rules deserve breaking.
:D
Not that I have any sympathy for them but technically speaking, can we say “Microsoft does X” when it was just a “brand protection LLM”?
For sure they chose it to be an outward connection but are we really now stating that an LLM can represent a company? I feel like that’s both “you are stupid for using LLMs that way” and empowering LLMs at the same timeThey are the ones who configured the tool to be used this way. Yes, Microsoft did that.
You’re always responsible for the actions of those that you choose to represent you. Regardless of how stupid they may be.
The phrasing is really weird too. Like I would understand if they were asserting their trademark, but saying it’s an account they’ve lost access to?
They don’t even say they lost access. Lol they just say delete it. Fuck these assholes.
They say they do not have access to it.
Yeah. I don’t have access to it either. What does that mean? Of course they don’t have access to it. It’s not their account.
Microsoft doesn’t understand parody
enf.microsoft
Do they know what enf means on the internet?
…yet.
$followers++When did they understand anything? Fuck MS
