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ICE definitely used AI image classification (CNNs) to spot 'gang' (not gang) tattoos on social media, right?

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Grateful to have the support of former UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve who has written an excellent op-ed on what my case means for others in the UK - let's take back control of our private lives from Big Tech! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Why is Signal so good and so secure? Euractiv explains it in layman's terms. The details of the US attack in Yemen didn't leak because of the app, it leaked because of the people. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

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Spectacle de la servitude volontaire : les puissants du monde à genoux devant Donald Trump. À l'instar du PDG de TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, faisant allégeance avec cette phrase : « Il est peut-être temps de reprendre l’exploration du golfe d’Amérique ». www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Bluesky makes it easier for publishers to track referrals

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Le DSA Civil Coordination Group mené par @cdteu.bsky.social a fait un travail remarquable d'analyse des rapports d'évaluation des risques des très grandes plateformes. On y lit à quel point ces rapports sont indigents. Les plateformes refusent encore la transparence sur leurs designs et algorithmes.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

AI weaponisation is dangerous not because AI is all-powerful but exactly because AI is a bit crap. It's doesn't deliver for socially useful production but it's great for violent destruction where collateral damage (false positives/confabulation) is seen as a bonus.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Les intimidations et attaques contre la société civile mobilisée pour l'intérêt général sont intolérables. VoxPublic adresse tout son soutien à Greenpeace USA @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social, victime d'une procédure-bâillon. #ImWithGreenpeace #WeWillNotBeSilenced @greenpeace.fr @greenpeace.org

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Merci Anne Alombert de présenter si clairement le dilemme que les scientifiques ont beaucoup trop souvent tendance à ignorer. Je recommande chaudement la lecture de l'article au complet, qui est plein d'éléments importants pour comprendre la crise informationnelle : aoc.media/analyse/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is my new favorite Grok stat

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

the feminine urge to

submitted 17 days ago • 1318 comments

Vous connaissiez CNews (Collabos News) ? Je vous présente le JDC (Journal des collabos).

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

Bluesky is a breath of fresh air. The open infrastructure on which it’s built must be protected against billionaire capture. Join Jimmy Wales, Shoshana Zuboff and others by signing our open letter and donating to our crowdfunding campaign. freeourfeeds.com #freeOurFeeds

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

🛜 L’initiative citoyenne #SoignonsNosAlgos a pour objectif de décoder les effets de la tech sur la société. 🔎 Découvrez notre site pour en savoir plus → www.soignonsnosalgos.org @france-assos-sante.bsky.social @voxpublic.bsky.social @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social @xavierbrandao.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social, about this AI Liability Directive?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

www.ecologie.gouv.fr/presse/a69-e... Est-ce bien le rôle du ministère de la transition écologique que de contester une décision protégeant un espace naturel, afin de relancer la construction de l'A69 qui porterait atteinte à la biodiversité ? #LDH #DroitEnvironnementSain #DemocratieEnvironnementale

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Les réseaux asociaux sont la cause de maux profonds et on ne peut se satisfaire des excuses de leurs dirigeants. Tout comme Big Tobacco, ils savent le mal qu'ils font depuis des années. Le DSA doit être utilisé pour les forcer à changer.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

So much of our efforts go to adopting new technology instead of improving existing technology or deciding to go without it all together.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

A l'heure où le secteur de l'IA est un far-west sans nom, l'AI Liability Directive pourrait être un moyen de remettre un peu d'ordre dans tout cela et, oui, encourager l'innovation européenne, une innovation basée sur la sécurité et le respect des droits humains. Il faut mener ce chantier à terme.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The prodigal tech women: From leading facial recognition technology to doing responsible AI.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 33 days ago • 143 comments

X-tortion.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 36 days ago • 88 comments

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

submitted 37 days ago • 277 comments

The AI Action Summit promised to make “AI sustainable for people and the planet.” But with Big Tech at the helm, huge new data centre investments, and the US (and UK) not signing on, is this just an empty promise? My latest for @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social: blog.peoplevsbig.tech/ai-big-techs...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The Paris AI Summit was marketed as public interest AI but the underlying message was deregulation.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

The negative externalities of GenAI never seem to end.

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

Please do not frame this as an AI race. It is not a useful lens. Europe needs investment, innovation, and public value driven AI. The world does not need an AI arms race on the conditions of irresponsible companies or erratic political leadership.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

"We must accelerate" repeats Macron at the AI Action Summit. That's official, Macron is an accelerationist. Hundreds of billions of investments are promised to develop and deploy AI technologies. How many things, how many people will be broken by moving so fast? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceler...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

“AI for everyone” (with the exception of some cases) means surveillance, tracking, manipulation, loss of agency & choice, for the many and more power, money and influence to AI developers and vendors

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

So grateful for @abeba.bsky.social on stage at the AI Action Summit, challenging us to be honest about the fact that we’re moving backward, not forward toward a shared social contract as Big Tech have now walked back nearly every voluntary commitment they once made to be responsible social actors.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

TLDR: the AI Action Summit was a hype circus. Buzzword bingo. Macron dancing awkwardly. Silly AI art. A surprising number of FAccTy people! More to come.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Des centaines de sites d’actualité sans journalistes diffusent des contenus générés par IA, souvent plagiés ou inventés. Leurs créateurs revendiquent d’exploiter des failles «laissées béantes par Google». Libé et Next ont enquêté sur ce phénomène qui préoccupe la presse traditionnelle ⤵️

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

Amazing to see 100+ civil society groups sign up to @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social & Green Web Foundation statement on AI & climate, calling for alignment with planetary boundaries 👇 Leaders should pay attention ahead of next week's AI Action Summit in Paris! greenscreen.network/en/blog/with...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

J'ai pas les mots... Qui sont ces gens, quelles discussions ont-ils dans les conférences de rédaction ? Il va falloir que ces chaînes d'infos en continu fassent une vaste remise en question.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Le président de la première puissance mondiale promeut ce qui s’apparente à un nettoyage ethnique de la bande de Gaza. Plus de droit international, plus même le respect minimum des peuples et des personnes. Il faut une réponse ferme de la France et de l’Union européenne.

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments