Mastodawn

European Commission

AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.

In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:

🇩🇰 15,2%
🇫🇮 15,1%
🇱🇺 14,4%.

What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.

AI factories are expected to be deployed in 2025.

🔗 More: https://europa.eu/!HXyQtH

Setting up of AI factories now possible after EuroHPC Regulation amendment

The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

Shaping Europe’s digital future

Quincy ⁂Jul 12, 2024

No one needs most of those "emerging AI applications".

This idiotic hype is causing electricity and water usage to skyrocket while having countless detrimental effects on society.

Quincy ⁂Jul 12, 2024

The chief "game-changer effect" I can see is a deterioration of labour conditions and quality of products and service

Dieu Jul 12, 2024

@quincy @EUCommission the commission needs people to believe in AI because why else would they be ok with an AI scraping all their private messages for CSAM?

Quincy ⁂Jul 12, 2024

Somehow I doubt they even think that far.

Dieu Jul 12, 2024

@quincy @EUCommission let's be charitable and assume they're evil geniuses.

Quincy ⁂Jul 12, 2024

@hllizi *Someone* is certainly being successful at selling them the stuff ...

Dieu Jul 12, 2024

@quincy every rose...

Csepp 🌢Jul 12, 2024

@quincy @hllizi They just want to look like they are surfing the hype wave and know what the hot new tech buzzwords are. NGI0 is what the EU should be doing more of.

Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)Jul 12, 2024

@quincy @EUCommission please stop funding AI and fund #opensource instead. Thanks.

The Internet.

elmussol Jul 12, 2024

@@ken_fallon
s/The\ Internet/Those\ who\ inhabit\ planet\ Earth

gunstick Jul 18, 2024

@ken_fallon @quincy @EUCommission they do the reverse.
Defunding open source because they want to throw mre money into the AI abyss.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/

FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans

Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello

The Register

Quincy ⁂Jul 18, 2024

@gunstick This is a sad state of affairs, and it would be in the best interest of everyone to reverse it ... @ken_fallon @EUCommission

Dieu Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission at 8% early regretters this sure sounds like one hell of a game changer, but keep shilling.

Dieu Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission Or rather: how many of the 8% had been using ML tools for perfectly valid reasons long before the hype turned 'AI' into a euphemism for bucket of shit? That I'd really like to know.

Rob Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission Not A.I you mean, seeing as there is no such thing as A.I

A.I dumbing down the population

Sos Sosowski Jul 12, 2024

There is nothing exciting in big corporation stealing copyrighted material to profit on them.

It is a disgrace that EU allows this.

Additionally the enviromental impact of this technology is far beyond it's usefulness.

Aral Balkan Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission *smh* You clowns.

faraiwe Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission #LLMs ( "ai") being a hype like #NFTs....

Meh.

Jonathan Schofield Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission there are no net benefits to be had from accelerating

- energy consumption
- surveillance
- inequality
- feudal power
- eugenic thinking
- negligence
- mistrust

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111068171665440904

@urlyman @EUCommission

It's also a threat to #fosssustainability through the temporary proposed halt to cascade funding for #NextGenerationEU

Where's the transparency, where's the accountability? That investment is public money.
https://kolektiva.social/@hackstub/112762068812732277

Hackstub (@[email protected])

Your attention please: Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @[email protected] calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit. As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software. We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years. If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI #ngi #publicMoneyPublicCode #floss

kolektiva.social

Jonathan Schofield Jul 12, 2024

Unfortunately, it seems the chasing after the chimera of ‘enhanced’ productivity that’s mandated by economics orthodoxy trumps everything else. I think we just have to holler loudly while letting the bubble burst.

And then see if we can pick up the pieces https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111317625999329353

gunstick Jul 18, 2024

@onepict @urlyman @EUCommission it is already happening.
No more FOSS, but more AI.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/

FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans

Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello

The Register

Boud Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission We can presume that you are a media team working for the EC, and that you discuss and decide secretly.

All the same, in your report to the EC hierarchy about "social network opinion", please read all the comments in this thread seriously and *do your homework* . Ideally, you should post your draft report on a public, ethical, GDPR-respecting server, e.g. a #cryptpad [1] so that everyone (e.g. all the participants of this thread) can edit it.

[1] https://switching.software/replace/google-drive

Bye, Google Drive & Docs

Recommended Productivity Suites:

switching.software

schrotthaufen Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission You really should get off the hype train. Plagiarized information synthesis systems are a huge waste of energy. It’ll vastly overshadow all the CO2 reduction wins, and make our ongoing droughts even worse.

Clarissa Jul 12, 2024

@schrotthaufen @EUCommission Heehee @ P.I.S.S.

schrotthaufen Jul 12, 2024

@clarissawam It’s not my creation, but I like it. Another favorite is glorified applied statistics :D

jan klarname ullrich Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission can you please stop this promotion of enshittification by using tax payers money plz

Russell Garner Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission for god's sake, why? Please find the Gartner trough of disillusionment soon and regulate before we're all 2m underwater

DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ Jul 12, 2024

@rgarner @EUCommission Gartner and even Goldman Sachs > https://floss.social/@danslerush/112755339422683715

DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ (@[email protected])

If I'd been expecting it … the dangerous leftists at Goldman Sachs have just produced a 31-page report on #AI (link below) which states : « So, what does this all mean for markets ? Although Covello believes AI's fundamental story is unlikely to hold up, he cautions that the AI bubble could take a long time to burst, with the “picks and shovels” AI infrastructure providers continuing to benefit in the meantime. » End of the bubble ? 🙃 › https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf [pdf] #GenerativeAI #AIBubble

FLOSS.social

Ana Francisca 兰兰🏳️‍⚧️Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission What’s the good news exactly? What’s the value these AI technologies are adding to the businesses?

bikepunk Jul 12, 2024

💩 🤮

Arne Brasseur Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission cringe

@EUCommission This is sad to witness.

Instead of mindlessly buying into the hype, you could keep supporting #opensource #freesoftware which really empowers people, builds skills, respects digital rights and makes the world better in the aspects that matter.

gunstick Jul 18, 2024

@eldelacajita @EUCommission. No, they defund open source as all money goes to AI crap.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/

FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans

Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello

The Register

Marta Threadbare Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission LLMs aren't AI. LLMs aren't even necessary in most of the things they are being pushed in, and sometimes (most times) they are actually worse than the things they substitute. It's just a fad to get vulture capitalists to keep injecting money after NFTs died. And this is even worse than NFTs.

NFTs "only" polluted the environment, LLMs are polluting both the environment and the internet.

Moustached Wulf Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission
WTF EU Commission?

BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission How is the EU going to manage the enormous and growing energy consumption of the bullshit machines with green targets?

Kotes Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission There are only a few areas where LLM can benefit our lives.
We want the European Commission to have a solid forensic eye.

Karl Heinz Häsliprinz Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission Tell me you were bribed by Nvidia without yelling me you got bribed by Nvidia.

Helen LH Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission
First you need to define what you mean by AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094475/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai-definitive-guide/
Second, if you are referring to the LLM eg ChatGPT hype, that bubble is going to burst in the next 12 months as there is no way to make it profitable according to Goldman Sachs. https://www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
You are better off dealing with the climate crisis that needs urgent attention than wasting time and money on climate destroying technology.

What is AI?

Everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree. And that’s a problem.

MIT Technology Review

Helen LH Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission
Also why are you pushing an unproven technology that 92% of companies are not using (According to your figures).

Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 12, 2024

@Research_FTW @EUCommission the delusion is staggering

Krzysztof Odnowa Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission This „AI” you’re talking about is just a bad cook program that takes a bit of everything to prepare a Giberish Soup. I hate it much more than Big Tech as it provides useless information and makes finding the useful much harder.

... (FKA Gergely Nagy 🐁)Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission It is also a game changer for the environment, and all the artists, writers, poets, developers whose work these were - often unethically, if not illegally - trained on, and not in a good way.

I do not think it wise to sacrifice all of the above on the altar of more useless garbage these "AI" things produce. Boosting bullshit production is not something to be proud of, nor should anyone compete in doing so.

tyil Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission What a waste of money. You could be investing in useful free software projects that are being used in your own infrastructure today, rather than pumping money into a fad that is hurting society more and more.

onion Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission haters gonna hate. AI is not only LLMs and silly image generators. Speech to text with #whisper is excellent, makes my work so much faster (and cheaper), noise reduction/voice isolation in #DaVinci saves my day almost every time just to name a few excellent AI based solutions.

Chaosthief Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission AI factories? well that's another cringe combination of words I haven't heard before. Let me guess all it means is: datacenter swallowing immense amounts of water and electricity.

Nameless Blob Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission I am glad to see fediverse users are pushing back against this here, but I'm not sure if these responses will reach anyone. Maybe all we can do is an EU citizen's initiative or something.

In any case, I would like to add my voice of displeasure.

Get off the "AI" hype train. It does more harm than good.

Boud Jul 12, 2024

My guess is that the @EUCommission media team is expected to give some summary to the EC hierarchy about "social network feedback". Whether the team accurately describes our response as "the proposed action is seen as detrimental to most of the goals of the European Union" in its report can only be speculated on: we're still in secrecy-culture-land here, with the EC cognitively paying the #CognitiveSecrecyTax [2].

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070120145419/http://iq.org

IQ.ORG

Iᑎ ᐯITᖇO / Iᑎ ᐯIᐯO / Iᑎ ᔕIᒪIᑕO Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission Amazing! Bcause AI has proven to be accurate, unbiased, respectful of your beloved copyrights, and im sure Europe will have water to spare and cool down those massive servers in the years to come. Well played, EU comission, well played. Swallowing the hype as a 13 year old would, clap clap clap

lebout2canap ⏚Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission You remain deaf to all the warnings, and there are many as LLMs present serious (not to say catastrophic) disadvantages inherent to the underlying technology (some are recalled in the comments here), but perhaps you will understand the language of money? https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit.html

Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?

Goldman Sachs

lebout2canap ⏚Jul 12, 2024

You should know that to finance all its initiatives in favor of the AI bubble, @EUCommission has cut its aid to free software: https://kolektiva.social/@hackstub/112762068812732277.

Hackstub (@[email protected])

Your attention please: Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @[email protected] calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit. As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software. We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years. If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI #ngi #publicMoneyPublicCode #floss

kolektiva.social

Linux Spain Jul 12, 2024

AI is this year's blokchain crypto metaverse: a fad bought on by powerful tech companies based on hype and lies that destroys the environment, depletes jobs and provides nothing useful to the people in exchange.

Don't drink the Kool-aid.

RolingMetal Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission I bet most of that 8% are those incredibly annoying and frustrating chatbots, without a glimmer of Intelligence :) Such a waste of time, just pick up the damn phone!!

javi Jul 12, 2024

It's a shame the @EUCommission is promoting this grift and pumping up the bubble. When this explodes, the 2008 crisis is going to look like a joke in comparisson, but instead of trying to create safeguards, you are just riding the wave until we all crash down. Fucking great job Brussels.

RenéWiersma Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission You misspelled "enterprise".

Stanislaus Grumman 🇵🇸

@EUCommission la vin qué cipollos

⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission
Yeah, a "game-change" if you mean stealing workers, artists, and everyone to enrich a few tech oligarchs on the United States to produce useless slop with the side effect of worsening a Climate Crisis that is already costing billions of euros to every single EU country.
A change for worst. 😡

Cassandrich Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission 🤡 🤡 🤡

Bad News Nobody Jul 12, 2024

@EUCommission fuck off