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submitted 20 hours ago by curbstickle@anarchist.nexus to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Yup, I'm posting another this week. Sorry.

This week I'm hoping we can wrangle a solution around AI and our selfhosted community. There are plenty of strong opinions (both pro and con), but one thing is for certain - there needs to be better disclosure in promo posts. Two options (that aren't mutually exclusive):

  • Any posts of an AI focused, AI Developed, etc software gets an [AI] tag. No, a [Not-AI] tag is not needed to accomplish this, thats kind of a "non-golfer" sort of tag.
  • Comment requiring an AI disclosure response to every promo post, if its not detailed in the post itself. Specifics (generating docs for commands, translation, whole-boat vibe-coded this app, etc) would be requested.

I will say that having disclosure and/or tagging would mean that comments that just say "slop" or "fuck ai" or whatever would be off topic at that point, that information is already provided, so its just noise (and sometimes pretty uncivil - I've been light on that for now due to the need for a rule on this).

The tag [AI] would make it easy to filter out (or search for, if that's your thing), but there is a wildly different degree of AI use out there, and from the posts with a positive score, its usually due to responsible AI use (translations, a snippet they had to do something obscure with, available to use with AI but doesn't require it, whatever), which is why I think the disclosure has a place as a benefit to everyone.

Please provide any input or alternative options on this, and I can then put it to a vote like the last one. Comments seem to be the best approach without involving something off-site, but if you have a better idea/option, please share.

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[โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not consistent about it yet, but because of exactly this, I'm trying to differentiate the two when I talk.

Responsible automation? I use ML or machine learning.

The grift consuming the world? A Tech Bro? "AI"

I think one of the saddest things is the conflation between the two, like you can't even talk about one without invoking the other. Or it opening up that whole ethical debate, when you're just talking about, like, a 100M transcription model trained by one research in some university on a potato.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah it's heresy on Lemmy, but I do find it genuinely useful. My only regret is that I have to use Claude/Anthropic more than I'd like, which is why I have a vested interest in selfhosting myself. I'd rather figure out how to run the larger models myself and cut them off completely, but you even begin to mention that here and you'll get downvoted to hell.