Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?

• spunow@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Did you know that there are no instances* defederated from dbzer0? So apart from setting up and running your own instance to defederate**, there is no way of making your feed filter out the subset of users from dbzer0 who think they should spread their instance’s values of AI content across all parts of the Fediverse, whether or not it is welcome there? Did you also know that Fediseer, the default web tool for instances to document issues and endorsements of other instances, which incidentally is maintained by the admin of db0, shows that lemmy.dbzer0.com has received no censures whatsoever from other instances? Do you think that users who avidly use AI to generate visual content for their posts may also avidly use AI to generate their text posts and comments? Countless accounts could simply be 1s and 0s from a machine instead of any actual human soul behind it (wait, isn’t that why many Lemmings left Reddit?).

  *barring instances with hidden blocklists

  **or instead manually blocking every user from dbzer0, which would be futile as they continue to gain users

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  • 56_@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No need to block every user from the instance, you can block the entire instance in your account settings.

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    • spunow@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Copied from another comment of mine:

      It seems as though you misunderstand how blocking instances and defederation work. If I am hosted on instance X and I block instance Y but don’t block instance Z, users from instance Y can still post onto communities hosted on instance Z and I will still see these posts. This is what I referred to when I said “subset of users from dbzer0 who think they should spread their instance’s values of AI content across all parts of the Fediverse”. Defederating does require an instance, and only by defederating from instance Y would the content made by instance Y users that is posted onto any instance become wholly filtered out for users on instance X.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Its not even just instance z. If they post yo instance x, you will also see the user. You only will not see the posts to instance Y.

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• Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is genuinely really interesting, I didn’t expect it to be db0. Thanks!

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