#encyclopaediabritannica — Public Fediverse posts

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#EncyclopaediaBritannica & Merriam-Webster ont déposé plainte contre #OpenAI devant un tribunal fédéral à Manhattan. Les deux organisations reprochent à l’entreprise d’avoir utilisé leurs contenus protégés pour entraîner ses modèles, dont #GPT4 qui seraient capables de restituer des passages quasi-identiques aux textes originaux une formede « mémorisation » directe de ses contenus reproduisant mot pour mot certaines sections de ses articles #ia

My #fedivision (#vision inspired by the #fediverse): Within the next 20 years people will begin to transfer the structure of the fediverse and how it is managed to the real world.

Citizens will be able to choose the country they wanna live in just the way they today choose the software (#friendica #mastodon #misskey ...), the server and the app they use to socially interact with each other. If they don't like how their server (formerly known as country) is governed they can pack their things and move to another one with close to zero transaction cost.

Today users can voluntarily give money to admins to pay communication infrastructure like #servers and cost's for #administration & #moderation. Today we all are obliged to pay #taxes (except for clever antisocial actor's) in our countries. In the future we can decide where (if at all) our money goes to. There will be admins and servers that have special real world agendas (green energy, strengthening local communities, raising awareness for minorities, air taxis ...) And there might even be servers that pay their users for being there. This money will be demanded from #companies or other non-social actor's like #billionaire's for not de-federating them. They will pay the fee's as it will be their only way to socially interact with or show commercials to others.

In 20 years admins and moderators will be what #politicians and #bureaucrats are today. Servers are what countries are today. Just like #Wikipedia is today what the Encyclopædia Britannica was 20 years ago.

#EncyclopaediaBritannica #moderator #Politics #future #utopia

By the way, it is a joy to read the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica (as available on Wikisource, random sample: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:EB1911_-_Volume_09.djvu/234 ). So well-written text; to the point but still detailed.

#Eb #EncyclopaediaBritannica

If you are a subscriber to #EncyclopaediaBritannica, does the link 'Subscription Preferences' in your Profile leads to the profile page again, just in a new tab, too?