Over the last decade or so we’ve seen lawsuits against social media companies for the content available on them. Now it appeara that there’s a new thing to blame.
We went from attempting to regulate a platform for the content to the tool used for making said content. In the past noone would have tried to blame adobe photoshop for edited pictures but social media, now we’re seeing a rise in blaming the tool (AI).
This made me think of the way in the 1500s pockets over a certain size were banned in france as ‘pocket guns’ became possible vs the brits baning pocket guns themselves.
Tool vs platform, what can you regulate, what should you regulate?
An added point Id like to mention:
The only big player doing both is meta and what theyre trying to do is offload liabilty as well. Threads being defederated and LLAMA being open sourcish is a way to shift the responsibilty of content moderation away from themselves and onto the users themselves.
This is a quick ramble, would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Frankly I think big tech companies need to stop pretending that the Internet is an open public space, and to stop attempting to market their platforms to the public as such. Even Lemmy here relies upon a vast network of privately owned infrastructure in order to function. Frankly the whole ordeal feels like an elaborate bait and switch, trying to lure people into living their entire lives online while quietly removing their freedom to make decisions for themselves about what they engage with and how.