“Outside of easy-to-flag illegal image stuff, the responsibility currently falls on the user to not prompt for things that they don’t want. As mentioned on the AI plugin pages, it should be treated like a web search. E.g. if you search “neo nazi forum” on Google, you’re 2 clicks away from the largest neo nazi forum on the internet. And, to be clear, this a complicated issue - even if I had a magic wand, I don’t think I’d outright prevent people from finding that forum. There’s a whole essay to be written here that I’m obviously not going to write, but the summary is “generally speaking, fight the roots, not the symptoms, and generally speaking do it with sunlight, not suppression”. It’s possible to make things worse if second-order effects aren’t considered, and this issue is complicated enough that I think it’s naive to be an absolutist in either direction. It’s always tempting, though, given how much easier it feels, and how much is often at stake for getting these things wrong - at least on a governmental/societal level.”
this isn’t the nazi or gore stuff that triggered the adding of gallery ability to prevent specific phrases, but it’s the perchance quote i always remember on this topic. blah blah blah biggest nazi forum is always 2 clicks away. anyway, i think it’s a nice response and agree. I think if it became a nazi cesspool right on the main generators page and actually messing with the identity of Perchance that would be one thing, but otherwise (beyond illegal things) it’s freedom and not suppression, including of ideologies, that’s the goal.
i personally extraagree with this and ideologybased suppression is the main annoyance to me that caused me to eventually stop using lemmy outside the Perchance forums.
Here you go.
https://lemmy.world/post/13338366
“Outside of easy-to-flag illegal image stuff, the responsibility currently falls on the user to not prompt for things that they don’t want. As mentioned on the AI plugin pages, it should be treated like a web search. E.g. if you search “neo nazi forum” on Google, you’re 2 clicks away from the largest neo nazi forum on the internet. And, to be clear, this a complicated issue - even if I had a magic wand, I don’t think I’d outright prevent people from finding that forum. There’s a whole essay to be written here that I’m obviously not going to write, but the summary is “generally speaking, fight the roots, not the symptoms, and generally speaking do it with sunlight, not suppression”. It’s possible to make things worse if second-order effects aren’t considered, and this issue is complicated enough that I think it’s naive to be an absolutist in either direction. It’s always tempting, though, given how much easier it feels, and how much is often at stake for getting these things wrong - at least on a governmental/societal level.”
this isn’t the nazi or gore stuff that triggered the adding of gallery ability to prevent specific phrases, but it’s the perchance quote i always remember on this topic. blah blah blah biggest nazi forum is always 2 clicks away. anyway, i think it’s a nice response and agree. I think if it became a nazi cesspool right on the main generators page and actually messing with the identity of Perchance that would be one thing, but otherwise (beyond illegal things) it’s freedom and not suppression, including of ideologies, that’s the goal.
i personally extraagree with this and ideologybased suppression is the main annoyance to me that caused me to eventually stop using lemmy outside the Perchance forums.