For anyone worried about the authenticity of digital content (and that should be everyone):
https://contentauthenticity.org/
I haven't read much about it yet, but at first glance it looks like a step in the right direction.
@admitsWrongIfProven What was that?
Oh, I hadn't seen that.
Yet another cock-up that would have been easily diffused by adopting #AItiquette.
@tripu I don't see why microsoft would have an interest in that, there's no profit in it :-D
…said anyone ever about any attempt to move any corporation away from maximum profit 🙂
The same way it's always done: either by regulation (law) or by consumer choice (boycott).
In these matters, I have more confidence in the latter (governments are too stupid or too evil to regulate well).
Let's adopt an #AItiquette and advocate for it, gain enough traction, and companies will start suffering the reputational and/or financial costs of not following suit.
@tripu Hmm, the situation is pretty dire. I agree on gouvernments not regulating well, but that msn is a common home page shows many consumers don't choose beyond default settings.
That's where we techies jump in to steer the industry in the right direction and to educate users. It's difficult, but it has to be done.
@tripu I fully agree in principle, i just lack the confidence that a notable success can be had. Lobbyism just shifts the incentives to badly.
@admitsWrongIfProven What alternative is there?
@tripu I hear the current schedule for this becoming irrelevant is around the turn of the century - climate catastrophy washes our sorrows into the sea. See the upside!
@tripu it feels like they want to put a GPL license on to media from what I gathered from the video. Wondering if that is necessary considering Creative Commons already exist?
I have not read much about this particular initiative. But it seems to me its value is not so much about specific licenses themselves as about standardising machine-readable metadata, forming a coalition around it, and pushing for adoption end-to-end (from creation to edition to consumption). That seems cool and somewhat novel (and necessary!).
More "accountability" that amounts to what Wikipedia did: discriminate against anyone but big media.
And yet faith in big media is falling.
@tripu I find it a tad amusing that BBC is still in this with Microsoft after what they did with that dead athlete article.