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A video of myself and my kids singing a >100 year old shanty was flagged on YouTube for DMCA. A modern folk art drawing I made of a squid was blocked on Instag
by Tao331 5y ago
A video of myself and my kids singing a >100 year old shanty was flagged on YouTube for DMCA.
A modern folk art drawing I made of a squid was blocked on Instagram for a content violation. I joked that the AI must be afraid of tentacles. The only explanation that made sense was that it looked vaguely phallic in the way that any of nature's "bulbed cylinders" do, but even that seemed like a stretch -- I should think they would have flagged an earlier painting of mushrooms.
The lesson is to make everything look like a butt in a thong. None of the content moderation anywhere seems to have a problem with butts in thongs. Bulbed cylinders: bad. Smooshed jiggle orbs: good. Just no nipples.
- aklemm 5y agoThis is the most damning observation of Silicon Valley. They’ve killed art. Social media is notably lacking original visual and musical arts, and it’s because they’ve happily focused on selling butts and boobs using copyright and DMCA as cover. Combined with the incessant reliance on AI and no hope of humanity ever connecting with the customers, we have a perfect shitstorm.
- rakoo 5y ago> The lesson is to make everything look like a butt in a thong. The lesson is to not use Google, and to only depend on structures/people you can rely on. Either yourself or a collective without profit motives, for example.
- Tao331 5y agoInstagram is Meta, but the point still stands that you can't count on 'em. My long term goal is indeed to stop relying on the MAANG and publish first to my own site. I'm not really that interested in building a following. I have a small audience of friends who like to see what I'm up to and I genuinely like it that way. The major barrier is wanting to set it up in my free time since it's like doing work.
- rakoo 5y agoI can only recommend buying a vps and slapping yunohost on it. Installation is dead easy, and then applications are just a few clicks away. It takes 30 min to have an equivalent to twitter, Instagram, Facebook events and YouTube right under your total control.
- bitL 5y agoMy Chopin piano performance was flagged for a copyright violation on YouTube...
- kashunstva 5y agoMy 10 yr old daughter’s violin performance of the Elgar Salut d’Amour, same. The issue now, a few years later is that pre screen auditions for some competitions must be uploaded to YouTube. Fortunately she hasn’t had problems but it’s a worry. I hate that we have to rely on capricious infrastructure.