The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet
To be brutal Microsoft appear to understand little these days…
Oh my fucking god! Please, M$, do continue!!
I do not understand why they want to remove minecraft videos.
Minecraft videos have been a huge part of it’s growth… and it’s impossible to imagine a scenario where these videos are harming MS or their brand. They already make money off of viewers buying the game… this is stupid
I do not understand why they want to remove minecraft videos.
For the same reason they went after the admin of the wrong instance asking them to delete the fake microsoft account - it’s a dumb algorithm doing a shit job. That this is a separate company that is being paid while doing such a shitty job says a lot about microsoft
I think I need to grift more, but I can’t even conceive of such stupid ideas.
What ghouls
Let’s save this post for the next follow friday…
Lea.pet also got a c&d for @apple@lea.pet
thanks microsoft! i just followed the account!
Streisand effect in full swing too. I’m now following @Microsoft@lea.pet :)
I don’t get fediverse either. How do I follow that from a Lemmy app. The link dosnt work.
Lemmy doesn’t support following people, you need a mastodon or Sharkey account for that. Check sharkey.world and mas.to
let them sue, parody is fair use. get that bag king
AI putting copyright troll lawyers out of jobs? Best use I’ve heard of yet.
…yet.
Microsoft is such a horrid company.
Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.
After forced to switch to Microsoft teams, I became their PM and developers are alien origin.
Like, some of the logic doesn’t make any human sense. Like, LLM slop would’ve done better.
$followers++This is honestly a dumb post. It doesn’t say anything about “Microsoft” understanding or not understanding anything.
It just shows them using an automated system to try and take down an account that they think is infringing on their trademark. There are legal protections for parody accounts, but they are not absolute and it’s possible that Microsoft could get a court order compelling the owner to cease control of the account.
So I guess I’ll explain the post for you, since it seems you do not understand the fediverse, either.
cyberplace.social federates with lea.pet but is not responsible for and cannot control the Microsoft parody account on lea.pet. Microsoft sent the notice to the wrong server. That’s why Microsoft does not understand the fediverse or how federation works, and why the post is funny instead of dumb. Now you can laugh too! You’re welcome!
Holy shit. I can’t believe that 65 people upvoted this. Do you really believe that’s how the world works? Are you actually adults?
Lol please explain how the world works
You have full control over a server on which you chose to run certain Software. But you feel you don’t have to comply with takedown requests because that’s just how the software works? That may work on indulgent parents but not in court. If you’re too technically inept to know how to comply, then you’re just not complying. End of story.
LOL you think a court will enforce this C&D for a parody account??? 🤣 are you an adult??
So it’s funny because the fediverse is so niche that no one designing automated copyright systems care about its odd and unique addressing system?
An attempt at censorship failed because the censors didn’t understand the system they were trying to censor. I think that’s both funny and satisfying.
They didn’t care about this system. It just got caught up in their news sources.
This isn’t funny, it’s just a thing that happened.
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Yes, exactly! Now you get it!
:D
Not that I have any sympathy for them but technically speaking, can we say “Microsoft does X” when it was just a “brand protection LLM”?
For sure they chose it to be an outward connection but are we really now stating that an LLM can represent a company? I feel like that’s both “you are stupid for using LLMs that way” and empowering LLMs at the same timeThe phrasing is really weird too. Like I would understand if they were asserting their trademark, but saying it’s an account they’ve lost access to?
They don’t even say they lost access. Lol they just say delete it. Fuck these assholes.
They say they do not have access to it.
Yeah. I don’t have access to it either. What does that mean? Of course they don’t have access to it. It’s not their account.
You’re always responsible for the actions of those that you choose to represent you. Regardless of how stupid they may be.
They are the ones who configured the tool to be used this way. Yes, Microsoft did that.
