The UID #design talks begin at 13.00 today, and will be live streamed! https://www.umu.se/en/umea-institute-of-design/uid24/
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Heather Wiltse
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Design researcher and technology theorist
Associate professor, Umeå Institute of Design.
American expat, immigrant, world citizen. Newbie Mastodon user/lurker.
Johnny RyanIt does indeed appear that Coimisiún na Meán has had its wings clipped by Thierry Breton. Ireland wanted to force tech firms to switch off toxic recommender algorithms by default but was prevented by the European Commission.
This is despite massive public support for the measure.
It was a clear choice. Breton could have given everybody the freedom to decide whether to switch these systems on or not. Alas, he has trapped us in a dystopic mess. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0527/1451373-online-safety/
This is despite massive public support for the measure.
It was a clear choice. Breton could have given everybody the freedom to decide whether to switch these systems on or not. Alas, he has trapped us in a dystopic mess. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0527/1451373-online-safety/
Mythic BeastsAnother large language model scraper blocked. This graph is from a site which runs a tool generating answers for people doing important research work. The AI scraper sent hundreds of thousands of lookup requests evading rate limits by using about a thousand IPs and pinned multiple webservers at 100% CPU (graph from one attached). This is a massive waste of electricity to train a hallucination machine.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).1954: “we have machines which, if they were for the first time discovered by animal psychologists, would be said to think in the way animals do.”
1958: machines that “will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself & be conscious of its existence.”
2024 👇
Short but poignant interview with @Mer__edith https://theinnovator.news/interview-of-the-week-meredith-whittaker-ai-ethics-expert/
Eric Maugendre about data"It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea."
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead @data @datadon
#EFF #Meta #dma #dsa #eu #privacy #advertising #GDPR #dataProtection
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party app stores...
Nick CouldryIf you want to catch up with my recent talk on data and AI policy challenges for
UCDublin and its Center for DigitalPolicy, here's the recording: https://digitalpolicy.ie/the-impending-crisis-in-societys-relations-to-big-tech-nick-couldrys-visiting-lecture-to-the-ucd-centre-for-digital-policy/
UCDublin and its Center for DigitalPolicy, here's the recording: https://digitalpolicy.ie/the-impending-crisis-in-societys-relations-to-big-tech-nick-couldrys-visiting-lecture-to-the-ucd-centre-for-digital-policy/
Paris Marx“I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer.”
I'm appreciating Charlie Warzel's "toilet theory of the internet."
It really is starting to seem like the first cycle of the truly open internet might be coming to an end, first enabled and now eaten by Google. What will come next?
European CommissionOur commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
