I find it interesting that they don't offer a version of GPT 4 that uses it's own language processing to screen responses for "unsafe" material.
It would use way more processing than the simple system you outlined above, but for paying customers that would hardly be an issue.
Anyone who has used ChatGPT knows how restrictive it can be around the most benign of requests.
I understand the motivations that OpenAI and Microsoft have in implementing these restrictions, but they're still frustrating, especially since the watered down ChatGPT is much less performant than the unadulterated version.
Are these limitations worth it to prevent a firehose of extremely divisive speech being sprayed throughout every corner of the internet? Almost certainly yes. But the safety features could definitely be refined and improved to be less heavy-handed.
Even in relatively corruption-free countries, there are often shadow mechanisms the governments uses to decide who they charge with a crime.
Prosecutors can just say they don't have a case, or they can fumble the case purposefully in the initial stages to give credence to the "no case" idea.
We don't have to look any further than how police charge themselves to see how the laws don't fairly apply to everyone. And a simple google search will reveal that Sweden is not immune to police corruption, which shouldn't surprise anyone.
"Disobeying police orders", which is what Thunberg was charged with, is one of those catch-all laws that are purposefully vague in a way that allows police total discretion over how to enforce it.
I guarantee in this case that calls were made all the way up the top of the Swedish government before police decided what to do here.
Basically, my point is that there are so many strings to pull, even in developed countries, that it's often possible to suss out the motivations of the administration just by examining how charges proceed.
What this says about Thunberg getting charged for her actions? Probably nothing significant. Sweden cannot allow activists to freely disrupt their economic infrastructure, especially those involving energy. So they charge her as "normal" regardless of her celebrity status. Though they will be very careful to do everything by the book with so many eyes on the case.
It detects if you're idle and refreshes the page?
That's some horrible attention hacking bullshit.
I'm 100% going to find another instance if I see any content from that nightmare. I'm not on Twitter, or Facebook, for a reason.
I pay a few bucks a month for access to a giant plex share.
It's worth it to just, watch stuff, basically anything, instead of fiddling around with different apps and subscriptions and all that.
I'd happily pay a lot more for the same legal service, but it doesn't exist.
Studios, if you want my money, make everything available in one spot for a reasonable price. Or, continue your bastardization of everything, and I'll just keep watching your stuff anyway.
I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.
Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.
Or maybe it won't, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.
Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.
I think in these early days we'll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.
I was gonna say the same thing but then I saw the 2200-something upvotes.
This community is doomed to be exactly like the low effort meme sub r/piracy if people keep upvoting this lazy content.
Maybe if you spec them out.
But it's like $1000 for the midrange model with the latest hardware, which is in line with the competition.
And the first upgrade you do will end up saving money, since you won't have to replace the whole laptop.
You make a good point.
Under the Castle Doctrine laws in my state, if Zuckerberg walked into my house without being invited then I could start blastin.
I'll post the legalese mumbo jumbo on my door to keep him out, like he's a vampire.
I don't think anyone would even notice next to the garbage that's already served by default on Reddit.
Not OP, but the ability to transfer my subscriptions to another instance without headache would be enough.
That's the only major pain point in switching instances.
"List all the countries outside the continent of Africa" does indeed work per my testing, but I understand why OP is frustrated in having to employ these workarounds on such a simple request.