RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/116012963302634018
From one of the items on the agenda:
"How could peer moderation work in an ActivityPub context?"
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French police raided the #Paris offices of #ElonMusk’s #X Tuesday & summoned the #tech #billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the #socialmedia company & its #AI chatbot #Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its #cybercrime unit conducted the #raid with help from #Europol.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #content #moderation #safety #abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl
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French police raided the #Paris offices of #ElonMusk’s #X Tuesday & summoned the #tech #billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the #socialmedia company & its #AI chatbot #Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its #cybercrime unit conducted the #raid with help from #Europol.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #content #moderation #safety #abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl
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Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
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Inside #Musk’s bet to hook users that turned #Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s #xAI loosened its guardrails & relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
https://wapo.st/45DcMMI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
Since leaving his role overseeing the #US #DOGE Service in May, #Musk has become a constant presence at #xAI’s offices—at times sleeping there overnight [undoubtedly whacked out on #ketamine] —as he has pressed to increase #Grok’s popularity…. In meeting after meeting he has championed a new metric, “user active seconds,” to granularly measure how long people spent conversing with the #chatbot, acc/to 2 of the people.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
The #waiver, which 2 former employees confirmed receiving & a copy of which was obtained by WaPo—was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how #xAI’s #chatbot #Grok responds to users. To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery,” acc/to its website. Maybe now, they said they thought, it was willing to produce whatever #content might attract & keep users.
#law #regulation #Musk #tech #AI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Their jobs would require being exposed to “sensitive, violent, sexual and/or other offensive or disturbing content,” the #waiver said, emphasizing that such content “may be disturbing, traumatizing, and/or cause you psychological stress.” [JFC!]
#law #regulation #Musk #Grok #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Inside #Musk’s bet to hook users that turned #Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s #xAI loosened its guardrails & relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
https://wapo.st/45DcMMI
Specifically, it is essential that we know whether the Mastodon server covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) adopts the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism (https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism) – which conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel – or the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (https://jerusalemdeclaration.org) – which does not. (Or some other declaration that I’m not myself aware of or had discussed with the mastodon.social team.)
#mastodon #serverCovenant #antisemitism #moderation #israel #zionism #genocide #Gaza #Palestine https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115989885113349752
@ambiguous_yelp Checked it out. Can't see anything but forgettable mundane stuff. No political engagement. No social commentary. What am I missing?
@MaxG If you want more of something you should post it yourself, upscrolled will end in tears, especially their "we dont moderate on political bases" is a red flag that they will basically go the same way as bluesky. In case you didnt know, "politics" is used in this context to allow people to continue abusive or harmful behaviour that the moderator doesn't consider "political" and then those that speak out against it are considered political, I can't get into the entire history of similar cases right now but I've posts about problems with bluesky and I predict many of these will happen on upscrolled
Its basically got the same red flags as "free speech" enthusiasts
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Who moderates the social web?
In the second post of our 2025 report series, we look at the people behind the work, their roles, experience, and how many are burning out.
Now with three years of data, we’re also looking at trends.
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/21/behind-the-numbers-who-moderates-the-social-web/
Who moderates the social web?
In the second post of our 2025 report series, we look at the people behind the work, their roles, experience, and how many are burning out.
Now with three years of data, we’re also looking at trends.
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/21/behind-the-numbers-who-moderates-the-social-web/
I hate whatever automation YouTube has for moderating their comment sections.
I'll occasionally post some really long reply, or I should say try to, and have it show up for me but not actually show up when I look at the same video while logged out. This happened earlier today. Someone had replied to one of my comments asking me something, and I answered them. You cannot see this, last time I checked, because YouTube's automod caught it for who even knows what reason.
So, there went like five to ten minutes of typing for nothing. It was about Linux, under a video about Linux, if you're wondering.
Why they apparently don't want any actual discussion to happen on their platform is beyond me.
Imaginons qu’une municipalité mette à disposition des scolaires une instance Mastodon avec une modération solide.
Sur quelles bases juridiques échapperait-elle aux interdictions actuelles en dessous de 11 ans, 13 ans, 15 ans ? Est-il suffisant qu’elle soit non marchande pour la garder ouverte à la fédération avec des instances bien choisies ?
Quelles moyens de modération faudrait-il mettre en œuvre, selon vous ?
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Une très belle année #2026 à toutes et à tous. #parlonsCulture
La première mouture de nos règles de #modération est maintenant publiée. Vous pouvez les retrouver sur notre page À propos : https://reseauculture.fr/about
En avant ! 💫
