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The idea that humans aren’t animals is a uniquely human ideology & it’s not one i subscribe to; humans are animals. The separation of humans & the concept of humanity from animals has caused many many issues; more harm than good id argue

Humans are animals

like maybe perhaps perchance we don't want it scanning our children's faces to do age verification because we don't know what it's going to do with those scans down the line. maybe we shouldn't be using it like a therapy machine and telling it our deepest, most painful things. maybe we shouldn't be giving it a dossier of our detailed medical information, especially in a world (in the us) where things like not being able to hold pre-existing conditions against someone for insurance is increasingly threatened. perhaps we shouldn't be scanning our faces for funny little short videos into something that can also generate porn on demand with all of the data it's collected.

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Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

Why?

Because it's so fuckin easy to tell what's about to happen, when, how, and why. Grew up my whole life being taught how to act around these people not to upset them or make for a fight I wasn't ready to take. I carry a gun on my hip, and have a strong personality now. But I still know how to not cause an incident in a fucking grocery store. This is explicit racism and it's easy to see, learn, and prep for. I've had people follow me around stores, ask if I'd stolen my car, tell me not to buy fuel at their gas station, all pre-transition. Now? I've been told I make my entire personality "being black" by white trans femmes, been told "all you care to talk about is politics," by white trans femmes. Had them harass my family trying to find out what happened to me when I ditched the group they were in for somewhere better.

White people in general also have a 'subtle' form of racism that allows for plausible deniability of the words and actions being racist in nature called implicit racism because it's not "consciously done" in nature, it's an internal bias that functions on the subconscious level making it even more insidious. These usually take form in micro aggressions and other such behaviors where one doesn't really think about what they said or did, nor how it was offensive and bigoted in nature. It's only subtle to them and then alone! Any other socially conscious person will see it. But for all of the countless people who think racism died in the US in 1964, they don't see implicit racism and stereotypes, micro aggressive actions and statements, are all met with the wall of "it's a joke," "we're just kidding," "no one actually believes those things," "can't you just laugh," and so many other dumb fucking excuses for why we should just let racism pass.

"I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty."

There are actually a fuck load of people who legitimately act and behave like this.

If you think you're not a racist, I want you to stop and think every time you speak to a BIPOC and really check yourself to see if you're about to say something that's rooted in prejudice and socially conditioned thought. Because I get pissed when I hear the stories of other POC trans folks and how white folks in our own damn community treat us!!

Since it happened to me, I’ve met literally dozens of trans women that told me their stories, who have had some variation of Hot Allostatic Load happen to them and thought that they were some kind of unique monster.

In comparing these stories, Black trans women have it consistently the worst and are often subject to higher penalties for less severe “offenses”, especially once colorism is in play. For me, a lightskinned Black trans woman, I was driven out because I was working to desegregate the local queer scene because in a 50% Black city most free events were 70% or more white. I managed to save my ex, a darkskinned Black trans woman, from similar except she hadn’t done anything but be the object of affection for a white trans woman and another white trans woman was jealous.

Even ostensibly “leftist” white spaces, even marginalized whites, will put white solidarity and the general upholding of white supremacy before liberation because what they want is not total liberation, but to live with the same privileges as non-marginalized whites over non-whites. They want the space of the oppressor, not freedom, not liberation. This is why they will mercilessly destroy those who seek to upset this order in a way that won’t allow them to reach their goal and then ask for passive patience for the rest of us. Non-Blacks often will do the exact same in the hopes they’ll achieve their group liberation while still staying in what they believe is their rightful place above Black people.