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the weird “co-op” behind the mastodon instance hachyderm.io just started a generative AI project (hachyderm.io)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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reposting here for better visibility (let me know if there’s a better way to do this now that we’re federated): the owners of hachyderm.io just started a generative AI for gaming project, and it looks like donations to them will likely end up going to that

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

as someone who really likes co-ops as a weapon against capitalism, it really pisses me off when assholes use the term because they’re worried that folks are wise to DAOs being a grift

so far there’s some extremely crypto-reminiscent damage control happening in the linked thread, right down to folks being redirected to their discord so concerns can be silenced (they own a damn mastodon instance) and having the most toxic parts of their community come to the thread to run hostile PR

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pushing people towards a Discord rather than a more public-facing source of information is obnoxious and suspicious even outside of cryptocurrency/AI grift scenarios. If nothing else, it sets off my "STOP USING DISCORD AS A FORUM REPLACEMENT" inclinations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@self Well dammit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

IANAL, but isn't this a bit deceptive? Can people ask for their money back?