Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

There’s been this weird series of articles lately, trying to frame the rapid growth of the fediverse (mainly Mastodon), as somehow now failing. It started last month, with the Guardian’s Josh Nicholas leaping in with a provocative headline: “Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around” and […]

I completely understand why some people might want to use something like 11labs to preserve the voice of a deceased loved-one for their own use, but did anyone check with Tunehead's family, for instance, to find out if they're OK with his being reduced to a voice print for mass consumption? That struck me as disturbing in a way I'm having trouble defining and I knew him for years. And it demonstrates why we need to be having robust ethics discussions around this kind of technology.