Musk actually buys Twitter.

[AmosTrask]

Twitter/X planning on opening a new "Trust and Safety" office in Austin, Texas.

Elon Musk's 'X' to Open Texas Office Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation and 'Hate Speech'.

Tech company X says it plans to hire 100 full-time employees to form a new trust and safety office based in Austin, Texas. The recruitment drive is

thenationalpulse.com

Trust and Safety AFAIK is just another term for community moderators or whatever but this'll focus on things like child sexual exploitation among other things supposedly.

Well seeing as a totally blank new account gets literal porn posted on its feed 60% of the time. It's quite late in the game for them to do so.

 

[Husky_Khan]

There was a sweet period of a few weeks/months where Elon Musk took over Twitter initially and so many accounts were unbanned that Twitter was legitimately improving in most respects, at least with the content, but the sheer amount of bots and intentional engagement farming to get views/clicks for blue check money has really driven it down.

Monetizing Twitter to get rid of bots really didn't seem to work at all. I see more Bot or AI or just inauthentic accounts in general while browsing the website. It's not so bad in some categories and topics, but you can see it in the normie engagement, like when someone posts a cute animal or robbery gone wrong video or something... then the replies are literally filled with other blue checkmarks posting their own meme shit videos as well instead of like people talking and bantering in the comments.

And certain keywords are triggering things like porn bots and there are a lot of bots peddling DM's and tagged messages about bitcoin trash and other spam and porn and "link in the bio" nonsense.

It also seems more unstable as a platform as well, but that's just a generally minor issue.

On top of all of that, the monetization of Twitter seemed liked a good idea, but again inauthentic blue checkmark accounts, along with the standard internet gadflies, are just migrating towards posting lots and lots of clickbaiting content to farm views.

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests

These numbers are legitimately shocking.

mashable.com

 

[Bigking321]

Eh.

Still better than it was.

I'll take disorganized madness over outright evil government collusion.

And it proved pretty much all the involved "conspiracy theories" about social media were completely true and they were lying about everything.

We owe Musk a great deal for that. The government is already doing whatever they can to get back at him.

 

[mrttao]

conspiracy theories

conspiracy facts

 

[mrttao]

Elon Musk sues OpenAI, says it now exists to “maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity." Watch his warning about this from 2016. 👀

Elon is going after OpenAI (the maker of ChatGPT and the video creator Sora) for allegedly putting profit over the good of the human race, which violates its core mission of AI tech for the masses.

notthebee.com

Musk is suing open AI.

Under its founding agreement, OpenAI would also make its code open to the public instead of walling it off for any private company's gains, the lawsuit says.

However, by embracing a close relationship with Microsoft, OpenAI and its top executives have set that pact 'aflame' and are 'perverting' the company's mission, Musk alleges in the lawsuit.

'OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,' the lawsuit filed Thursday says. 'Under its new Board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an [artificial general intelligence] to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity.'

 

[edgeworthy]

Anyone else get the Irony of Elon Musk accusing someone else of putting profit above the general good?

 

[Bigking321]

Off the top of my head I can't think of any irony.

Did he do something unscrupulous to get his fortune or something?

 

[Abhorsen]

Anyone else get the Irony of Elon Musk accusing someone else of putting profit above the general good?

Yeah, he's certainly never lost a ton of money establishing a free speech zone through buying a major company.

 

[hyperspacewizard]

Yeah, he's certainly never lost a ton of money establishing a free speech zone through buying a major company.

How X handles abuse and harassment | X Help

Learn how we define and prohibit abusive behavior and harassment, our rationale and consideration of context, and what actions we may take.

help.twitter.com

Use of Prior Names and Pronouns

We will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition. Given the complexity of determining whether such a violation has occurred, we must always hear from the target to determine if a violation has occurred

X quietly revived anti-misgendering policy that Musk dropped last year

GLAAD pushes to close loopholes allowing targeted misgendering of celebrities.

arstechnica.com

I don’t know if Elon has said anything about this but it’s something to keep your eyes on.

 

[Abhorsen]

Use of Prior Names and Pronouns

We will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition. Given the complexity of determining whether such a violation has occurred, we must always hear from the target to determine if a violation has occurred

I'm pretty sure that's going to die soon, but it's good to spotlight it.

 

[hyperspacewizard]

Man I wonder what happened in that court case he’s talking about.

also isnt twitter/x in the us and so only has to care about our laws? i know very little to nothing about how laws of foreign countries interact with websites.

man could you imagine having to deal with Japanese slander/defamation laws especially on something like twitter/x

 

[bintananth]

Man I wonder what happened in that court case he’s talking about.

also isnt twitter/x in the us and so only has to care about our laws? i know very little to nothing about how laws of foreign countries interact with websites.

man could you imagine having to deal with Japanese slander/defamation laws especially on something like twitter/x

When in a foreign country you are in their back yard and must abide by their laws.

In Canada, fr'ex, there is no right to bear arms:

Ontario Court Confirms No Right to Bear Arms in Canada; Supreme Court Will Not Hear Appeal - Centre for Constitutional Studies

The second amendment of the United States Constitution establishes the right to bear arms. Born out of violent revolution, the United States in 1791 was a place where it seemed essential to the survival of the nation that gun ownership be enshrined

www.constitutionalstudies.ca

 

[hyperspacewizard]

When in a foreign country you are in their back yard and must abide by their laws.

In Canada, fr'ex, there is no right to bear arms:

Ontario Court Confirms No Right to Bear Arms in Canada; Supreme Court Will Not Hear Appeal - Centre for Constitutional Studies

The second amendment of the United States Constitution establishes the right to bear arms. Born out of violent revolution, the United States in 1791 was a place where it seemed essential to the survival of the nation that gun ownership be enshrined

www.constitutionalstudies.ca

yes but where is a website? I’m assuming where the company who owns the website is located so in X’s case the USA so why would some random court case in Brazil effect a company in America. I’m sure websites dont want to be banned from certain countries so that may effect policy but if it’s only going to effect people on X from Brazil why change the policy part of their website instead of making a small addendum specifically for Brazil?

 

[Culsu]

They have to tailor their output to local laws. So, for example, I guess if you've got a Brazilian IP X would be obliged to censor stuff for you that you probably could see if you had an US IP address.