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New test: OpenAI’s most powerful system hallucinates 33 percent of the time. That is more than twice the hallucination rate of its previous reasoning system. When running another test, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates were 51 and 79 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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Character.ai, who is being sued by a mother whose 14-year old son shot and killed himself due to a ‘relationship’ w one of its bots, wants chatbots (machines!) to be protected by HUMAN rights such as freedom of speech This is where we are 🤦🏼‍♀️ centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/charactera...

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A guide to Americans how dependent they are on Chinese products in their homes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Also Europeans are trying to change habits - getting away fromUS goods and services. What is hardest, do you think?

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Many students perfer bots over teachers. But ability to ask endless questions without judgement or pushback isn't a proven way to learn. www.axios.com/2025/04/25/a...

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Chinese internet users abuse generative AI making deep faked videos and music, mocking the American leaders for what they believe are ridiculous and outrageous policies and remarks. JD vance is known as “the eyeliner man” on the Chinese internet free read www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/b...

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With its monopoly in digital ads, Google is depriving rivals of the ability to compete and harms especially news publishers according to US judge. The Justice Department has asked the court to force Google to sell some pieces of its ad technology business www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

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Did Trump and his billionaire friends make themselves richer by buying when stocks were down KNOWING they would go up w Trump’s plans? Who knows? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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Did you hear about the Trump Card? You can buy yourself to a fast-track to US residensy for 5 mio dollars! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/the... Also hear this very interesting and long interview w Howard lutnick, who says it is the brightest gov ever in the USA youtu.be/182ckTL2KBA?...

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Can a stripped-down phone w no browser or apps make us more mindful and concentrated? Yes, but it won’t allow us to live in our societies who are more and more build around the smartphone making us dependent on them taking for granted we all have them…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/t...

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While Trump expects every country in the world will come to him, please him and negotiate the tariffs, France suggests that the EU put higher taxes on digital services from the US Here are some European alternatives dataethics.eu/european-tec... www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

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After Trump’s tariff announcement tech stocks dived. Apple, Meta and Amazon fell about 9%, Nvidia 8%, Tesla more than 5%, Microsoft and Alphabet both fell about 2% and 4%, respectively. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/t...

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Must read. Shows what is at risk for humans engaging emotionally w manipulative machines enhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6

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Good for Signal Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high-ranking officials in the Trump administration….. techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/s...

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Positive news on the Nordics, who are fast adopters of technology, we (still) trust each other, we cooperate, and we build small and mediumsized companies, so the power is widely spread and not concentrated on a few lunatics www.ft.com/content/50d4...

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If you are lonely, you risk being even more lonely using chatbots, according to two new (not peer-reviewed) studies from chatbot maker OpenAI and MIT. We saw addictions w social media, now we're seing a new addiction w chatbots www.platformer.news/openai-chatg...

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Your DNA is up for graps. Google-funded 23andMe is filing for bankrupcy. The CEO, who was once married to Google-founder and had two kids w him, is stepping down www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Many tech commentstors have scolded Apple for being behind in the 'AI race', there might be a sound reason for holding the horses; AI model needs to be small to fit in an iPhone and that is necessary if Apple is to live up to its privacy promise of on-device processing www.wired.com/story/to-tru...

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A complaint to Norway’s Data authority and from Austrian NOYB says that ChatGPT violates GDPR’s principle on data accuracy by producing false information about individuals…. www.politico.eu/article/open...

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Meta has used stolen books from a pirated book database LibGen to train Llama. So has OpenAI and thus Microsoft. LibGen was made for academics in underdeveloped countries, it is 17 years old and don't pay fines when they lose a case. #ai #genai www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Don’t use AI for search. Using large language models for search “take away transparency and user agency, further amplify the problems associated with bias, and often provide ungrounded and/or toxic answers that may go unchecked by a typical user.” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

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Interesting read: An entire tourist industry has sprung up around Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the low-cost GenAI DeepSeek www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

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Spot on media criticism. Even The New York Times falls for AI PR that AGI is near garymarcus.substack.com/p/hype-anthr...

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DeepSeek is just as focused on developing AGI (Superintelligence) as its American competitors - just not for profit - 3 free reads on.ft.com/3XNzvS8

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The first major test of the Trump administration’s approach to Big Tech’s power will be how it proceeds in the Google search case. A court has ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly by paying Apple, Mozilla and others to be standard search engine www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/t...

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Not only dows Europe need to invest heavily in defense but also in tech sovereignty dataethics.eu/eurostack-re...

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US study on the use if GenAI; it is use mostly by highly educated and the majority is worried about the future w AI in the workplace futurism.com/ai-work-educ...

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Very good news. All Nordic AI-centers from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Danmark have signed a memorandum of understanding. It means doing AI-research together, advice governments, create start-ups and develop languagemodels radar.dk/artikel/vil-...

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AI and sustainability. Hallucinating chatbots. And a list of European tech alternatives. Sign up for our bi-monthly adfree newsletter on AI and data ethics ym0y.mjt.lu/nl3/hPf9Eiea...

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OpenAI says the Chinese has developed a surveillance tool based on Meta’s open sourced Llama to detect criticism of China. So many questions pop up; Aren’t Trump, Putin and big tech not using the same tools? And why is this coming from OpenAI? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Alternatives to Google Maps: European Wego.here.com (also an app) Open Street Map Even Apple Maps though you support big tech then More tools: dataethics.eu/tools/ www.theverge.com/news/609772/...

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The new plague: Zoom, Slack, Meta and transcription tool Otter have incorporated AI chatbots into group messaging for collaboration, automated meeting notes, real-time transcription, translation and task follow-ups. www.axios.com/2025/02/06/b...

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Elon Musk calls it a ‘criminal organisation’ and spreads direct lies about USAid having paid celebrities millions of dollars to support Ukraine. Then he fires almost everybody. An agency that has done so much good in the world 😢 Free read. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

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If you want to track yourself use Oura coming from Finland and working w privacy that gives you autonomy over your digital life (data) www.axios.com/2025/02/04/o...

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A European Solution to verify yourself online without compromising your privacy is coming up. And it is promising Thank you to @pernillet.bsky.social for inviting me into the ThinkTank 😀 dataethics.eu/on-the-inter...

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Slash first, fix later. Elon Musk has brought his takeover tactics from Twitter to the federal government. The administration is already eliminating diversity initiatives, testing engineering prowess and demanding federal employee loyalty www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...

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You still haven’t abandonned Meta’s platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp? Here’s yet another reason www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

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Trump's alternative press corp is podcasters including Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Logan Paul and they are mobilizing America’s men to lean right. An analysis of over 2,000 videos shows how. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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While Trump and big tech build more data centres and aim for AGI (which I don’t understand why), others worry about the water and electricity consumed by GenAI dataethics.eu/should-we-be...

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very good short analysis of the AI situation in the US where Sam and Elon tossle w their billions of dollars garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-o...

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Great portrait of @alexsoros.bsky.social - some rich people are doing good www.ft.com/content/fdde...

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"If anyone wants to do business in [the] EU, they have to comply with the rules," Christel Schaldemose said. "No one forces Zuckerberg to offer Meta services in [the] EU. If he does not like to pay fines, he could start making sure Meta complies." www.politico.eu/article/parl...

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In the light of the price increases from especially Microsoft but also Google on GenAI - this article notes; ‘some on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley have expressed doubts about whether A.I. will quickly produce enough benefits to justify its staggering costs.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/t...

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Why is no journalist @kylelwiggers.bsky.social digging deep into the reason for wanting AGI (my bet ; it’d only for profit, not for the sake of humans, the planet or demcracy) techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/a...

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I breaks my human heart to see how people fall in love w machines. After OpenAI brought humanlike A.I. (they must have known it would manipulate feelings) to the masses we’ll see more and more like this. Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t... Machines should sound and look like machines!

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Fair use or theft? Hearing in the copyright lawsuits - newspapers vs Microsoft/OpenAI www.courthousenews.com/microsoft-op...

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