From what I have seen this so-called Rimu is a dangerous person. From built-in CCP-style shadow profiling in the Fediverse, and now this? Honestly I would not be against declaring them persona non grata.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the anti-divergence / anti-leisure campaign against thorns (the þ thing).

Wow was that really it?

My understanding is he’s the Potterying of the Fediverse. Trying to enshittify things in advance and somesuch, presumably to launch some sort of IPO? Heard a lot of drama re stuff like quote posts, or the suppression of “toot”.

You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid? Please, get off your high horse. I never said that. I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem, being sold as such, when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from? And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India, so what is “scaling” is just oppressing more and more people to unworthy work conditions.

Oh well. You do you. Their goal is to get their victims to fight each other. I’m stopping here.

No one have the time to create subtitle, and engaging professional may be costly.

Bitch I lived through the anime fansub times of the early 00s. Sometimes the fans had the subs ready before the episode came out, and they were top notch quality, even with localization considerations. And they were doing it for free (if still for the cred). AI can only ever hope to have that sort of dedication.

Like, really, what kind of brainrot do you have? We’ve had internationalized captions and content decades before we had AI.

AI is quite unlike other “rapid technical advancements of the past” in that sense. It’s so damaging to people, society and environment that there is currently no possibility that any use you make of it, “well-intentioned” or not, can improve things. Any “we might as well use it” s little more than joining the oppression.

Why not start with autotagging image posts with no alt text with something like Mastodon’s #Alt4Me? It summons the human element to help submit the data, instead of depending on AIs that we all know the stupidity and evil they do.

refuse “image post” without alt text.

Mostly* works, but increases significantly the barrier of entry to engage in “conversational” / “collquial” fediversing, and subjects the largest groups of people to the limitations of their tooling.

when you upload picture, you must provide their alt text, if there is no alt text, the picture will be deleted.

I assume this is for when you attach a picture to an otherwise text / link post? In that case, I think this is a very good path, yes, since in this ase the user who is adding the picture is already engaging in the extra work of getting it.

hide user post based on alt text and remove post score if the alt text is bad.

No CCP style shit please, we already have enough of that with Piefed.

Adding posts with no alt text to a predefined category or tag (such as Mastodon’s #Alt4Me) sounds like a reasonable alternative.

I thought we were anti AI…?