Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 5 days agoI agree with this, mostly. The tech is real – The blockchain has solid math behind it. I don’t know if I agree with its value though. The viable usecases are significantly limited compared to the hype behind them. Bitcoin for example is still inherently inefficient compared to conventional payment systems. AI feels a lot like that – lots of hype with very little substance at its core.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Didn’t you hear about the scandals with Steam and Itch with traditional centralised payment processors? Decentralised payments like crypto are a method of solving that issue.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Only in the sense that crypto is an alternative payment method in the same way that pulling out is an alternative to condoms.
etherphon@midwest.social 3 days ago
Lol, that’s great.
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
The steam/itch situation is a bit complicated. I think the organization behind that action has bad motivations, so it’s not the best example for the long term. My guess is that itch will update their NSFW policy to allow for some NSFW content, but not content that depicts truly heinous material.
The reason I would support that type of activism, to an extent, is that it was effective against Musk when he started turning twitter into a hellscape: freepress.net/…/stop_toxic_twitter_coalition_open…
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
it is the best example, because it clearly shows a big weakness of centralized digital payments that crypto does not have
itch can adjust their policy all they want if the payment processors will dictate what they can allow, and just say no at any time.