"In a statement about the “precautionary measure”, the #AEPD wrote it has ordered #Meta to suspend implementation of #ElectionDay Information & Voter Info Unit features in #Spain.
The AEPD is using emergency powers contained in Europe’s GDPR—the pan-EU regulation empowers any data protection authority to act where they see urgent risks to users in their own territory."
"For years, we’ve been #doomscrolling. World events have intersected with the maturation of large social platforms, shifting the way we relate in real-time. Very real #collectivetrauma stacks up ever-higher. We’re all together, but we still feel #isolated.
I’ve built my career on the conviction that it does not need to be this way.
It’s exciting to remember that, at any time, we can try something completely different and completely our own."
"In the run-up to the European elections in the summer of 2024, we offer seven proposals for policy interventions in support of the #DigitalCommons. Building on the foundations laid by the regulation of commercial platforms over the past five years, the policies presented below aim to strengthen different forms of Digital Commons as building blocks of the European #DigitalPublicSpace."
"Though #heat has killed hundreds of people in Maricopa County every summer for the past four years, the idea that heat can be deadly is newly shocking to many decision-makers.
"the worst part is that when they [#LLMs] can’t complete a task confidently, they don’t give you an error or tell you they’re unable to finish. They make something up and serve you incorrect information.
…companies like #Google are pretending this isn’t a problem and pushing these systems toward taking over as our phones’ virtual assistants and the brains behind our online searches."
The #USCopyrightOffice has repeatedly stated that works made by AIs aren't eligible for copyright, which is the exclusive purview of works of human authorship. This has been affirmed by courts.
"This idea that there’s a kind of unquantifiable #magicsauce in #AI that will allow us to forgive its tenuous relationship with reality is brought up a lot by the people eager to hand-wave away accuracy concerns. Google,OpenAI,Microsoft dismissed hallucination as a small annoyance that should be forgiven…
But apologies to Sam and everyone else financially incentivized to get me excited about AI. I don’t come to computers for the inaccurate magic of human #consciousness." https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong
"#Jack recently deleted his account on #Bluesky, once pitched—by him—as #socialmedia’s decentralized solution to censorship, and left the company’s board. I reached out and asked him why, which is where our call began…what follows is a missing chapter of internet history that sheds light not only on Bluesky, but #Twitter, X, and the past 5 years of censorship & backlash. The future will be decentralized, or it won’t be free." https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana
"When the web – and its browsers – were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the #W3C to secure even more dominance. As the web turned into Tom Eastman's "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four," that kind of collusion became much easier."