2d ago

"Brand protection LLM" ridicules Microsoft on Fediverse

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)

The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet

Fediverse @lemmy.world

Vittelius @feddit.org

2d ago

Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse

cyberplace.social /@GossiTheDog/115174005290146637

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Great use of AI, honestly. Just mass spam takedown notices to anyone who mentions your products. Not like there's any sort of repercussions for sending baseless legal threats.
Nope, parody is free speech. Suck it, Microsoft.
Sad day when supporting Russia with regards to freedom looks like the ‘good guy’ position.
simply respond with this.
Bot's not even literate. "With this being said" is the introduction to a contrary statement, like "on the other hand" or "despite this." It's not a declaration of "we have spoken; make it so."
I hate AI and Microsoft as much as the next guy, but to me, this looks like a grey area. The name and logo (all most people will see of this account) aren’t really clearly parody… there is a faint smile in one of the squares, but at 16 pixels tall, you’d never see it.
“It came from somewhere else so I don’t have to respect a takedown notice” is not a valid defense.
This is certainly an interesting hill for the fediverse to choose to die on.
This could be an intentional first attack by big tech to get a knife into the fediverse. Showing a judge blantant disregard for takedowns isn’t a great look, and they have a LOT of lawyers.
- They sent the takedown notice to a totally unrelated instance.
  cyberspace.social doesn't have the ability to take down an account on lea.pet.
  
  That doesn’t matter, legally. They are hosting that data, they are the server it’s being served from, so they are legally responsible for that material. Being federated does not protect you from legal responsibility for things that your server serves up. Just because Lemmy can’t obey the law doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to (or result in potentially severe punishments). And it very much can. It can defederate from that instance.
  Why do think google search has to respect takedown notices? They aren’t hosting it, but because their server returns it in search results, it’s liable.
  Edit: they almost certainly ALSO sent one to lea.pet. We want to believe lawyers are greedy and evil and stupid. They are only two of those things.
- It's hard to know it it's a parody because "update deletes data", "takes screenshots every 5 seconds and saves them in an unprotected folder" sound like parodies already.
  Microsoft just needs to stop sucking, then we can parody them.
- Just simply move outside of the united shits' jurisdiction.
  
  That’s definitely a good idea. I wonder where there is left to host servers that aren’t controlled technofacists. The world is rapidly, and sadly, running out. I feel like a count y could make a killing just by being a country of “we don’t care what the hell you host”

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