„So reform the system if you must, establish grants for creators, tax Big Tech developers up to the gills and give the money to creators; anything but the assumption that the traditional remuneration system has any hope of surviving” - @technollama.bsky.social on the #copyright AI singularity

“Europe will need to do more than come up with new wrappings for the same chips” - good piece by @lionellaurent.bsky.social for Bloomberg on European AI sovereignty - and NVIDIA as the main beneficiary of this effort #publicAI www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

New piece from my co-director Zuza Warso. Good overview of EU’s current take on digital sovereignty and public infrastructures

For the past few years, me, Kris at Naive and Matt at Reddit have been running the Tiny Awards, celebrating the good bits of the web. THEY ARE BACK IN 2025 AND NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! Please tell your friends and share the link, as a small act of resistence to everything being shit: tinyawards.net

“Making for the web is easy, but most of us have forgotten how – ceding our digital agency to platforms and corporate landlords.” @kleinkleinklein.bsky.social + @sachajudd.com on building the Good Internet, out of the cozy web bits. Good stuff. zine.kleinkleinklein.com/p/good-inter...

🤖 Join us May 20 for a discussion on Public AI. We will present a new white paper, commissioned by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, with authors @felice.bsky.social and @alek.bsky.social, as well as industry experts. 📅 15:00 CEST | Free online event openfuture.eu/event/online...

“Europe Must Build: a Strategic Reset” by @nicolascolin.bsky.social, great piece that has faith in Europe’s tech capacity. Colin proposes “decentralized coordination” as mode of operations suited for EU’s diversity Useful for thinking about #publicAI in Europe. www.driftsignal.com/p/building-i...

The European Commission published the AI Continent Action Plan, with the aim of building a European approach that is innovative and competitive in the "race for leadership in AI". Here’s my analysis: ttps://openfuture.eu/blog/from-ai-factories-to-public-value/ #ai #publicAI #europe

“Algo decision making systems are “leviathans”, harmful not for their arbitrariness or opacity, but systemacity of decisions" - @christinalu.bsky.social on need for plural #AI model ontologies (sounds technical, but has big consequences for human #commons) www.combinationsmag.com/model-plural...

Strong piece from @dacemoglumit.bsky.social on the AI opportunity - public interest AI will be built only if societies don't leave it just to the developers and engineers, and also - EU needs to build alternatives to the "Silicon Valley model" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Good op-ed in NYT about the tech billionaries and companies they own, and how antithetical to democracy they are. good quotes from @himself.bsky.social who does some of the best thinking on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

A proposal for how the UK National Data Library could function (from Feb, I'm catching up on #publicAI examples). Sounds a lot like #publicdatacommons. And a good example of a data-first pathway to more public AI (and other tech policy goals) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/tbi-ndl

David Braue writes about the National Library of Australia, which began Terms of Use, limiting open access to its resources. Braue describes the context as "voracious genAI training algorithms overstay open government’s welcome". ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

This Guardian piece looks at how Nordic countries, once at the forefront of digital payments, now see cash as a crucial mechanism for resilience. Social campaigns are encouraging people to pay with cash, at least once in a while. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've been working on a white paper on #publicAI policies and learned in the process that sound proposals are imposible without deep technical dive into the #AI stack. THis is a great NYT explainer on GPUs, data centers, energy and water use for AI. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@communia.bsky.social analysis of the recent draft European research strategy 2025-2027. Good to see a strong commitment to #openscience. And an overall #publicinterest perspective - which is often missing from EU’s broader digital strategies communia-association.org/2025/03/10/e...

New piece from my @jankrewer.bsky.social , my team member, on how EU should seek Exit from current digital challenges to #publicdigitalinfrastructure, in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/looking-for-... #publicAI

AI is meant to be destroying knowledge jobs, but at the moment, in the #US, it’s the state that’s destroying PhD jobs through funding cuts. The key question is then, how do the two trends intertwine? (And I guess it’s a #publicAI question) www.msn.com/en-ca/money/...

"as we build new social media, we need to keep in mind lessons learned from activist efforts to make corporate social media better" - @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy , at #rightscon panel on new social web. Fixing big platforms + alternatives is two pronged strategy for #digitalpublicspace

An amazing #opensourceAI story: Perplexity AI took the DeepSeek R1 model and de-censored it. the-decoder.com/perplexity-a...

Looking forward to #RightsCon, and seeing how ideas about #AI as public infrastructure resonate with people who focus on #digitalrights.

@alek.bsky.social will present research on #OpenSourceAI by @opensource.org and Open Future—featuring insights from #DataGovernance experts—examining how #OpenAI can prioritize public access over private commodification. 📙 openfuture.eu/publication/...

🇪🇺 The #EuroStack report proposes €300B for EU tech sovereignty through chips, AI, and cloud infrastructure. Read @jankrewer.bsky.social's analysis: openfuture.eu/blog/eurosta...

“the future lies in institutional reform – in rebuilding the public institutions that have been “eaten” by the profit-driven platforms” – Mike Pepi talks #publicdigitalinfrastructure in Dazed piece on #platform alternatives (with rare mainstream / pop tone www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

DOGE is accessing vast troves of data, shutting down gov websites, and promising to replace countless jobs with an "AI-first" strategy. There's a reason Musk is aiming to automate the government—it's all about concentrating power and exercising control. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...

Update from WIRED head @katie-drummond.bsky.social. We're hosting a webinar for subscribers w/ our reporters and editors next Thursday, Feb 13 @ 1pm ET.

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

@wikipedia.org is vital for #NLP, yet little research contributes back to the Wikimedia community. To bridge this gap, we are organizing #WikiNLP to advance both. w/ Isaac Johnson (@wikimediafoundation.org) @akhilarora.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social @indiiigo.bsky.social

Jan Krewer takes a sweeping look at #DigitalCommons policies in #Europe, charting two decades and showing steady support for sharing, openness, the commons

Taking into account costs of #AI reasoning models (see linked text), it seems that responsible AI should very quickly determine whether a prompt wouldn't be better suited for a more energy-efficient solution, for example good old search. or #Wikimedia. www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/31/1...

"If we are going to engage the public meaningfully in the root causes of AI systems, beyond sensationalist distractions, we need to build a public concept of data, as a collective, common good" @staplejames.bsky.social on #datacommons, #AI and narratives needed to build AI for public good #publicAI

"we hope to see the training of modular constellations of small models loosely connected across heterogeneous devices, using compute arbitrage spread world-wide." I love it when #ai developers hide #designfiction poems in tech reports arxiv.org/abs/2501.185... /via @jackclarksf.bsky.social

. @willknight.bsky.social writes about US-China competition in #AI, describes "nightmare scenario" of 193 #sovereign AI limited to one culture / nation What then of a world dominated by a few "sovereign corporate" models, limited to one set of profit-driven values? Sounds like case for #openness

@paulk.bsky.social analyzes @joinmastodon.org.web.brid.gy and @freeourfeeds.com initiatives aimed at creating social media infrastructure that serves the public interest. #DigitalCommons #TheParadoxOfOpen openfuture.eu/blog/publicl...

"Aggressively Weaponizing Scaled Assets to Lock In Absolute Advantage". Cool #AI policy piece title from @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social that reads like a ship name from Iain M. Banks's #Culture. (the paper, from recent @ainowinstitute.bsky.social series, is a great read) #publicAI

I enjoyed @simonwillison.net take on "last year in #LLM". Good quote at the end, in a part titled "LLMs need better criticism". let's call this hype-less #AI optimism. Although it's not just about guidance by devs, but shared sensemaking by devs and non-devs. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

“We were doing intelligence in 2015…” says an Apple exec interviewed by Stephen Levy. And a key adjective is missing. And in a recent interview, Jensen Huan also talked simply of “manufacturing intelligence”.

Harvard is releasing a dataset of 1 million #PublicDomain books, with funding from OpenAI and Microsoft, and with Google possibly helping out with distribution www.wired.com/story/harvar...

. @authorsalliance.bsky.social and Northwestern Uni Library will build a roadmap for a “books commons” - a public-interest #AI training dataset. authorsalliance.substack.com/p/developing...

AGI no longer means self-aware machine - now it’s system that “outperforms humans on economically valuable work”. @shannonvallor.bsky.social analyses this shift, and consequences for how we think about ourselves, in a great piece for Noema. www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o... #publicAI

Great analytical piece by @nathalievanraemdonck.com on the dynamics and content flow governance here on #bluesky. Great balance of accessible info and in-depth ideas. www.techpolicy.press/where-does-p...

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“The hashtag #2tired2prompt starts trending across social media.” @timmaughan.bsky.social + #Lethie at their best www.noemamag.com/not-my-probl...

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Pens will not save the world from AI, but it’s nice, once in a while, to read about inks and papers rather than tokens. @lopatto.bsky.social has a neat take on this: www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...

M*sk's net worth just hit $350B. Some math: US median net worth: ~$100k. Top 0.1% median net worth: $20M Millionaires are 200x richer than middle class Musk is *17,500x* richer than millionaire class Let's break the class solidarity between millionaires and billionaires. They are *not* his peer.

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Agora Group, major Polish media company, shares its content for free with PLLuM, the public consortium building a Polish open #LLM. Great news and impressive example of cooperation, against a backdrop of either big commercial deals or copyright infringement cases. #opensourceAI #AIcommons