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I've been banned from reddit, lemmy, and now piefed for posting ai generated content with a bot. I want to have a platform where I can send all the automated ai generated content I want, and do self promotion. What's the simplest, cheapest way to have a platform like that? I would like to complain about internet censorship due to surveillance capitalism, but it would be disingenuous when every corner of the internet does the same thing.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 26 points 3 days ago

Run your own Lemmy instance or Mastodon instance. You can say whatever you want, it's absolute freedom of speech. People don't have to listen to you, and many people may defederate, but that's their choice

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Only if done locally.

Sorry I can't answer that etc. You have been downgraded to Haiku 4.7.1 temporarily.

Frequent Claude response people get by asking about subjects like biotech. They can define new sensitive subjects at will.

Anyways, OP's not really looking to answer their title question they're looking to force people to test their AI stuff for them, which is a very different proposition. Probably a fediverse instance of their own & then ask people if they want to federate. That's what I do with RSS on Iceshrimp

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OP’s not really looking to answer their title question they’re looking to force people to test their AI stuff for them

What makes you think so?

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They're talking about spamming people with AI-generated stuff without anyone stopping them. So when it's bad, what, people just plead with them? Do your own quality control IMHO

Deepseek reads this website (maybe not now that we have Anubis idk) & I use it as a search bar, I guess I could just block the account but annoying to have to login to search, let's not just shovel crap into it to tell ourselves something is happening.

Maybe if they provided details about their goals?

So when it’s bad, what, people just plead with them?

Do you get in touch with everyone generating low-quality content and plead with them to stop?

[–] bloogoose@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wait... You're against surveillance capitalism but also pro AI?

[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The tech is neutral. Is capitalist relations of production that weaponize it for profit and class control.

[–] orlando@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I disagree. The tech is indistinguishable from the ideological bias of its creators since by its nature it is exclusively a machine that communicates and surveils on their behalf. That and the fact that the AI companies in the lead would destroy the earth faster than global warming chasing a singularity ought to demonstrate by example that 'tech' is not value neutral.

[–] bloogoose@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

engineers. aka workers

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago

The power of VooDoo!

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

alright, you're being so vague you obviously have nothing to say

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a reference to the 80s movie The Labyrinth

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Sung by... and this makes the hobgoblin username thing even more amazing... The Goblin King, David bowie.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] bloogoose@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago

Wait… You’re aware?

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

You could try to self host something but interaction with anyone other than yourself would quickly dwindle to 0 as the quality of your posts became evident. The fundamental problem here is that no one wants to see what you want to post. Have you considered just keeping the slop in a folder on your desktop? Maybe you could prompt another LLM to pretend to enjoy it?

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

Ok, why tho? Not trying to be overly snarky, just genuinely do not understand the mindset. Self-promotion for what end? Who's your target demographic for your AI art gallery?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You could host your own Lemmy instance. Other instances could defederate from you, but they couldn't stop you from posting whatever you wanted on your own instance.

Any option to prevent others from taking something you want to post online down is going to require you to run or host it yourself. But then you're still beholden to the DNS company, hosting company, and the payment processor for how you pay for it all.

There are apparently ways to pay for your hosting through anonymous crypto, and ways to route the connection between your hardware and the open Internet in private ways, and even private DNS services.

Ultimately, this all depends on what your risk profile is, how what you want to post runs foul of the rules elsewhere, how much you're willing to spend on this, etc.

You could look into the tech stack and services other controversial sites are relying on, like what PirateBay or 4chan use.

"How private?" "How censorship resistant?"

[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Posting AI generated bullshit with a bot should get you banned from the internet as a whole. Get a fucking real life and learn to create shit yourself.

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Spamming would be the issue.
They can create stuff with AI, as long as it is not used for fake news or other undesirable issues.

Like, a person spamming their Photoshop/GIMP edits maybe be banned because of spam.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago

A person can only be banned if they're posting on a platform with censors.

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you did not follow communit rules and instead were using a not to spam, then you may get banned.

Like, which all communities did you post in and what were their general rules?

[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

I think the issue is that I posted 10 posts in a row so it felt like spam, I had been posting with the same bot for a month to promote my channel without problem. The community was my own so only the piefed.zip server rules applied.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok there's enough samphappalāpā in this thread let me try a real answer.

You're not looking for a platform. Platforms aren't a necessary part of the internet, ask a millenial. They were created after the internet to add extra features like addictiveness and censorship.

What you want is a thing called a website

This requires hosting and a domain name

Some hosting services (e.g. GoDaddy) will impose censorship on you too. For example, they may remove content that is copyrighted in the USA.

njal.la is a pretty libertarian third-party host. Or you could host yourself; there is a Lemmy community about how to do that.

You have the option of writing HTML yourself or using a Content Management System

Good luck

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I miss websites, like, the "under construction"-gif era websites about medieval swords or tv-show fandoms or such.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

remember when you could actually find stuff on the internet? there would always be an open forum or website for that niche and the collected experience of the people in there.

everyone thought it was going to go so well before big money bought it out.

platforms are a fuk

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a saying from the days of the edgy internet atheists, before most of them turned into reactionary islamophobes. "I already do all the murder I want"

I can already post anything I want without being banned on lemmy because I don't want to post a flood of worthless slop from the lies and plagarism machine.

You are pissing in the public pool then crying censorship when you get kicked out because nobody wants to swim in your piss.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Just start a blog?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Free website hosting you can try:

Please don't link to your future blog slop content on the threadiverse

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Damn, i did not realize.

[–] kindnesskills@literature.cafe 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago