Sunday, March 17, 2024

Restart 20240317 some projects am developing, having interesting interconnects

AI language model based on African corpuses, in view of negative biases in current AI models such as ChatGPT

Think Fahreheit 451, 1984, Brave New World and The Lord of the World - and many other dystopian pointers to the current situation; call me paranoid, but I think it's time for SamizData: a repository of good books, films, educational materials, art, and other treasures safe from cancellation, memory-holing, ideological bowdlerisation, shadow-banning and the panoply of fifth-gen warfare particularly aimed at the most vulnerable: the young, ignorant, badly-schooled or disadvantaged. It can be done simply with free open-source software that is mature and stable and widely used by large organisations. Satrting with a group of a few like-minded individuals who could host an instance of Owncloud hosting their own local collections, we could quickly move to federating servers, pooling collections, duplicating collections for backup, etc.