very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law. Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Look who came with

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

good first graf in times report on trump admin assault on civil society gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Also called my attention when reading the transcript from July's earnings call: bsky.app/profile/lean...

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

There's still time to act, contact your EU representatives! fightchatcontrol.eu I just emailed the 76 Italian MEPs, the Italian permanent representation, Italy's Government Ministries, and the Danish EU Presidency, with the critical reasons why Chat Control has no place in a democracy.

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

Part of a collaboration by multiple newsrooms into how Big Tech uses lobbying to influence laws and curb regulation around the world, journalists from Latin America reveal how several lobbying operations unfolded in the region by some of the companies that most shape people’s daily lives.

🟢 Finlandia ya es el 6º país de la UE en oponerse a #ChatControl, el plan de monitorización masiva de conversaciones. Pero España sigue radicalmente a favor. 📢 Este viernes 12 los países deben fijar postura: pedimos al Ministerio de Interior que se oponga. fightchatcontrol.eu

After 25 years at EFF, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battle.

Here we are again. Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is not based on scientific evidence. It will enable mass #surveillance of EU citizens. #chatcontrol fightchatcontrol.eu

yet, I constantly find myself having to explain this in most spaces where important conversations and decisions (regulatory, policy, higher education, etc) take place

NEW: I spoke to @rondeibert.bsky.social ahead of his keynote at Black Hat today. Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political. “They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

And of course there are never clear definitions or boundaries tied to the concept. His answers to investors during the recent earnings call are even worse. "building something that is fundamentally smarter than people" 😶‍🌫️

Is it me or does this come off as pretty mafia like? You either buy into my vision for this tech or you'll end up being an outcast. I guess you can imagine which CEO said this in their recent earnings call last week.

i am so tired of people wrapping up every useful innovation in coding or machine learning into "AI" as if Anthropic or OpenAI are related to the people who pioneered stuff we universally value.

Good piece on the rationale behind charging $200 a month for a subscription, though I’d add the other reason is that power users are costing these companies so much money and $200 a month is *closer* to making actual money, even though they’re still unprofitable www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...

important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

wow

"If they never bother to write it, I for sure won't spend my time reading it" As a response to every slop piece coming out of this AI hype cycle.

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Chatbots have really brought us into the age of the “smart dumb guy” — idiots who do not realize the limits of their own understanding and thus think they are breaching the limits of human knowledge because they spend too much time texting with the Dunning-Kruger Effect Machine.

✅20 years ✅1,200+ volunteer authors ✅ 30+ languages ✅170+ countries 🗣️1 mission: amplify local voices globally. Celebrate our impact by donating. globalvoices.org/donate/ #KeepGVStrong🌱

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

the media is letting us down. when they go along with the bullshit of the tech industry, they actively mislead the public ensuring they don’t actually understand how new technology works and what the real pros and cons are as a result.

This billionaire’s fortune is built atop research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and yet he seeks to destroy that agency and its investments in the scientific engine that has fueled our tech industry since the 1950s. And why? Because it tried to include more diverse scholars?

Tech executives showing they live in an entirely different reality.

The DMA has a provision that allows end-users to consent individually to anticompetitive behaviour, using a GDPR-style popup. It's nonsense. When we brought the problem to @aschwab.bsky.social he said it would be fine because it would be stringently enforced. Where's that enforcement?

When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

Just watched @abeba.bsky.social's keynote at "AI for Good", absolutely killed it.

and yet, we'll use behavioural and cognitive sciences language to mislead people into thinking AI models equate human cognition

a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it 2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth

I mean, the only reason ChatGPT uses them all the time is bc the stuff it was trained on—writing, by writers—must have used them all the time. It’s not thinking. It’s more or less super-sophisticated pattern recognition. The “no one does this” take is SO bizarre.

Genuinely neat and useful feature, but I'm begging reporters to add *at least* some nuance. Text recognition (OCR) has been around for years. Perhaps we can tone down a bit tech companies' ✨ magical innovation ✨ PR.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

"Digital Sovereignty" sounds abstract but this poll shows *exactly* what it means: who has power to set rules that shape our lives. Half the people polled there think big tech is more powerful than the EU. The problem is: they're right. Is this an acceptable state of affairs?

Bsky share your wisdom: what are you using for 2FA codes? I love(d) Authy, but absolutely despise that they deprecated their desktop apps.

This fits perfectly, as the default aesthetic of #AIslop already owes a lot to Kinkade: If you look at algorithmically curated databases used to fine-tune AI models such as «LAION aesthetics,» you'll find Kinkade's paintings ranked higher than almost anything else in terms of «aesthetic score» 1/

Thought I was reading The Onion for a second, but it’s not even satire! Don’t waste your time. Their main argument is trickle-down economics 😴 Bootlicking billionaire propaganda.

Call it clickwork, crowdwork, data labor, or ghost work - they are all poorly-paid, precarious and traumatic jobs that make AI possible. Read an excerpt from The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on @restofworld.org . restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

Facial recognition as allowed by Hungarian laws is a form of mass surveillance⚠️ 👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support: ➡️an enforcement of existing laws & ➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces. 👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign

Also, did someone at UNESCO miss the memo to avoid overlaps with major global events that kind of have similar communities attending? Not to mention, also organised under the UN system. 🤔 www.globalforumethicsai.com

The 20th Internet Governance Forum is starting today in Norway. The need to support and defend the multi-stakeholder model has never been more urgent since its inception. #IGF25