this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
903 points (92.0% liked)

50501

1504 readers
2 users here now

50 States, 50 Protests, 1 Movement. https://fiftyfifty.one/ | #fiftyfiftyone
This is a community related to the 50501 movement. Find the main communities at https://50501.chat/.

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
 

remember...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s distasteful, but a useful weapon. We need ways to create content that is good enough and really fast to make. A grassroots movement doesn’t have the funds to pay marketing teams to do our work for us.

[–] zarkanian 12 points 1 month ago

What did people do before AI? It wasn't that long ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

AI is being used every social media site the world over to hamper discourse, embroil people, to enrage people...

I don't know of another way to combat it except with more AI. Maybe at some point people will completely get off of the internet with the thought "There's no real people on the internet any more".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You poison it and you dont use it. That'd how you fight AI. With tarpits and poison. They're like Mentats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn’t work, based on the results we’ve seen so far. All attempts to poison AI have quickly been bypassed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any source to this claim?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, a quick google search turned up this, published just four days ago:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10962550

Or here’s a discussion on r*ddit about how Glaze is totally ineffective against poisoning image generation AIs. (Same principles apply to others like Nightshade)

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/12f9otc/so_the_whole_entire_glaze_ai_thing_does_it/

Basically every poisoning technique is by its very nature too specific to be useful for poisoning all the types of AI out there, or is too invasive and ruins the content for humans too, or is not strong enough and it gets lost in the cacaphony of data anyway.

Really it’s a clever idea in principle but in practice AI poisoning isn’t really a mathematically viable way to combat AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ban AI where you can and talk about how bad it is when its relevant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They are never going to ban AI. It replaces too many workers. Hell, it's smarter than half the people I know -- even when it makes mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who is "they"?

But i know AI wont be banned in most countries ever. The point is to try to make people avoid AI or avoid things that use AI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't avoid AI or things that use AI. We've been using these statistical models WELL before they became mainstream. And they mimic human authors well enough that it's impossible in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Its impossible in some cases, but possible in others

If people are openly using AI, others will be encouraged to do that to