Olives @olives@qoto.org

Talking about as in bringing it up as an idea.

Liberato's marketing is curious. They simultaneously say they won't take down content unless it is legal (and consensual as in sex) but they simultaneously have a policy against hate speech.

Legal by which standards? U.S. Law?

What if I take a thousand photos of squirrels, train a model off it, and try to turn it into something grotesque? Is that magically bad because it involved "AI"? #FreeSpeech

The end user and the technology itself is actually a rather uninteresting thing here.

If someone takes issue with it, it likely has more to do with a few large companies sweeping the web. #FreeSpeech

I'm also once again annoyed by people who use the term "AI" as a sort of vague jargon. Usage of porn isn't inherently "bad" simply because it popped out of the rear end of a diffusion model. Someone isn't suddenly evil because they used a particular technology. #FreeSpeech

I wish someone would defend someone's right to do something properly rather than overwhelmingly framing it through a utilitarian lens (only thing that matters is that porn decreases crime, rather than any other positive use of porn) and talking about putting porn onto illegal sites. #FreeSpeech

Looks like Bluesky has geoblocked 72 accounts in Turkey. #FreeSpeech

It's in their report.

Up to 93% of hits in the "Lantern" program might not involve real child exploitation, according to their own terms. Someone should look into that.

It is very concerning that these companies try to use #HumanRights language to try to human rights wash it. #FreeSpeech #privacy

https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview Inter-instance censorship remains a huge issue on Mastodon, and is a big part of why more people don't use it. #FreeSpeech

It's worth noting that it's also a form of protest, so it's also an attack on protest.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 Goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. A critique of censorship, prohibition, puritanism.

I've taken a step away from social media lately but I might expand on this sometime as it's been a while. #FreeSpeech

Such as whether they are securing things properly, particularly if they're handling sensitive information like this. Also, the information probably shouldn't be processed outside of that context.

Goodness, to condemn AI which they dislike, someone might talk like a freakin puritan. #FreeSpeech

Framing it as a matter of "AI" doesn't make complaining about sexual fantasies, or particular sexual fantasies more compelling than if it involves a book or other literature.

There are questions about AI here, of course. #FreeSpeech

A blog is one of the easiest things to self-host. I personally think Substack and Medium are overrated.

Gauging the presence of content based on search results is silly considering that a search result can linger for weeks after something is deleted.

One of my Substack pet peeves is having to click through that thing welcoming someone to the blog rather than just taking you to a list of posts.