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MySpace mail when?

You’d come in and slap down your penny and they would go “we can’t charge less than a penny so do you want one or two?”

Exactly. This is the result of human interference, AI inherently doesn’t have this level of censorship built in, they have to be censored after the fact. Like imagine a Lemmy admin went nuts and started censoring everything on their instance and your response is all fediverse is bad despite having the ability to host it yourself without that admin control (like AI).

AI definitely has issues but don’t make it a scapegoat when we should be calling out there people who are actively working in nefarious ways.