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I think due process / procedural concerns (i.e. we need precedent to protect human rights) are valid but it's important not to misrepresent the situation because that can lead to confusion.

I'm assuming it was a mistake made by a new under-resourced CSO which was spread too thin.

I waited for the discourse to trickle in about this, and sure enough, the new KOSA still has issues.

Looks like Dr. Ley was in Australia to talk about porn. He's been critical of puritanism before.

Apparently, the German government wants to use facial recognition in some public spaces.

Unfortunately, there's no OS called Doors. Lol.

It's not even a new hypothetical. It's a hypothetical from the *90s*.

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Also, you have to imagine that policy interventions are likely to have negative implications, and these implications might not be obvious. This is already a problem. It's even worse if someone is coming up with policy interventions for scenarios and technologies which don't even exist.

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What if robots became sentient? What if animals could talk? (parrots don't count). Should they have rights? This is admittedly an extreme example, but hypotheticals get into realms which are divorced from meaningful discourse.

One involves VR which is far more advanced than what exists. But, it's pointless to hypothesize about (as if it matters to policy), because it doesn't exist.

If it was a real thing, I might have something to say, however, I don't really like to engage with hypotheticals. I don't really like abstract discussions with little to no real world value.

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While I avoid words like "realistic" (it shifts discourse to arbitrary delineations of "realistic"), I don't think "extremely photorealistic" is a thing in that context. It's non-existent or extremely rare (unlikely). I guess unless it's SFW.

Someone is either up to some crime or not.

A director from a free expression NPO also spoke there. Forgot to mention that one.

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Apparently, itch.io was taken down by an "AI" powered trademark robot.

Ken Akamatsu has an interesting style of politics. Negima / UQ Holder are good works too.

Bluesky is the opposite. I think the character limit there is around 300 (and on Mastodon, URLs don't contribute towards the limit as much).

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While this instance has been behaving strangely since the update, it does have a 65k character limit.

While scrolling through my posts, I deleted an accidental duplicate post (instance bug).

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itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/24 Visa reaffirms their position when quizzed by lawmaker on statement made by rep (financial censorship issue).

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