A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the fake Glorbo thread, showing that it was easily fooled. This highlights issues with AI-generated content crowding out human writers and the need for Google to better regulate such sites to ensure quality. The Glorbo prank provides an amusing example of how gaming communities can push back against AI overreach.
Regulation should come from the industry not the legislators. Legislators don’t know enough about it anyway and will end up just getting the biggest players to write it anyway.
But if the industry does it, certification would be voluntary and it would be transparent who wrote the regulation. Much easier for smaller players to contribute and shape it.
And the best part is that if it sucks, they don’t have to participate. And then they can try again
In a perfect world maybe it would work that way, but I’ve seen too much enshittifaction via vertical integration or ego driven CEObros to have anything but skepticism for industry regulation, self-regulation in particular.
Yes, any capitalist system that relies on “self regulation”, basically the honour system, is a fantasy at this point.
And we’ve seen too much industry manipulation in government too.
But the big companies turning their platforms into absolute crap isn’t actually a problem for the industry. Other players will rise up (such as lemmy, kbin, mastodon, and other non activity pub sites) and make good platforms.
Much of the issues seen out of the US are because their approach to legislation is industry-led. You really do not want lobbyists and special interests writing legislation. You also don’t want politicians drafting it either. In other countries, you have a strong non-partisan civil service that can carry out consultations and work out the nuts and bolts. Elected politicians should be kept to the making the higher level decisions on what to look at and in what general direction to move in.