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pernillet.bsky.social
Co-founder of Dataethics.eu, talks and teaches data- and AI ethics. Former journalist. Also on Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Not only dows Europe need to invest heavily in defense but also in tech sovereignty dataethics.eu/eurostack-re...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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

Here’s the reason Mark Zuckerberg is slashing content moderation; he needs help from Trump to force the EU to not regulate his platforms, who are NOT complying w European law and values but are bringing in so much revenue to his tax-evading empire. www.politico.eu/article/zuck...

Before we accept more datacenters, we need to understand the risks to our households, according to this investigation of the country w most data centers in the world www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

France, Norway, the UK and Germany The respond to a barrage of hostile posts by Elon Musk backing far-right political parties and attacking leftwing politicians in Europe. Let democracy win. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Lots of European EV models to buy, if you need a new car this year. Tesla is almost off the list. Wonder why 😉 www.wired.com/story/the-17...

This is just one example of how American politics and businesses are intertwined www.axios.com/2025/01/02/m...

AI predictions 2025. Profits from AI models will continue to be modest or nonexistent. Hallucinations will continue to haunt GenAI. AI “Agents” will be hyped but far from reliable, except in narrow use cases. Power consumption & copyright lawsuits will rise garymarcus.substack.com/p/25-ai-pred...

Most use Chrome, who tracks you by default. One in five (21%) across almost 60 countries regularly use an ad-blocker. The media industry, who is often joining big tech’s unethical methods, calls it ‘unmonetised audience’. Others see it as privacy. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/ad...

AI hallucinations reinvigorate the creative side of science. Ex: hallucinations helped design a new kind of catheter that reduces bacterial contamination. The A.I. model dreamed up many thousands of catheter geometries and picked the most effective. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/s...

Interesting read: Chinese generative AI models are hugely popular. Many are open weight (you can use the code, but it is not open about which data it is trained on) Remember we still have a huge model in Europe, open weight also, Mistral. www.cnbc.com/2024/12/17/c...

This is not a fix, @davidmccabe.bsky.social The EU Comission ordered Google years ago to give users other choices in search engines but it did not work because Google implemented it in a difficult and expensive way www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/t...

Dear parents. make sure to keep your kids ( and yourself) away from this company, founded by two ex-googlers w lots of Google funding and free accesss. they have NO ethics. futurism.com/character-ai...

Love your predictions @caseynewton.bsky.social and would love one more: will the New York Times win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft? www.platformer.news/2025-tech-pr...

Gør-det-selv m open source fremfor at sende mio til en amerikansk lukket uigennemsigtig virksomhed, lyder det fra den almennyttige forening Analyse og Tal. På sigt vil det også gavne os alle, at DK/EU ikk bliver afhængig af big AI tech - link til analyse i kommentarfeltet pro.ing.dk/datatech/art...

Her er en god forretningsmuliged for Danmark: www.computerworld.dk/art/289799/d... @mortenboedskov.bsky.social @carolinestage.bsky.social @mariebjerre.venstre.dk

@emollick.bsky.social would be great w some concrete examples if you have some ? www.wired.com/story/artifi...

Netcompany-topchef Andre Rogaczewski er den it-boss det politiske landskab lytter til, men hans teknologiløfter er ikke altid i befolkningens interesse, mener eksperter radar.dk/artikel/han-...

A brilliant European open source alternative to Microsoft. @carolinestage.bsky.social @lisbethbnielsen.bsky.social @vindivejle.bsky.social @alexanderryle.bsky.social @stinuslindgreen.bsky.social @rachelmetz.bsky.social nextcloud.com/blog/nextclo...