In case anyone else needs it, there's a really good collection of legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content like fake citations (but also more).

106 cases identified up through May 2025

https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

The personal data of hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales dating back to 2010, including criminal records and financial details, has been accessed and downloaded in a “significant” cyber-attack. #dataprivacy #cybersecurity

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/19/significant-amount-of-personal-data-accessed-in-legal-aid-agency-data-breach-says-moj

#Oops Due to the ongoing case New York Times v #OpenAI, you cannot really delete your #ChatGPT prompts and conversations as the court has ordered [1] on 13th of May that *all* logs must be stored until further notice. OpenAI is furious as that means "including sensitive personal information, proprietary business data, and internal government documents" [2]. The court is not impressed [3] and sticks to the order.

[1] https://steigerlegal.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250513-openai-gericht-verfuegung.pdf
[2] https://steigerlegal.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250514-openai-antrag-schreiben-gericht.pdf
[3] https://steigerlegal.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250516-openai-gericht-ablehnung.pdf

An excellent letter from a cross-party group of MEPs calling on the European Commission to act to stop companies like Meta openwashing their AI.

https://bsky.app/profile/birgitsippel.bsky.social/post/3lmjo7aqx3s2f

#OpenSource

Billionaire investors are already eyeing up Greenland to build a high-tech and stateless Freedom City, "a new, libertarian-minded municipality characterized by minimal corporate regulation and a focus on accelerating emerging technologies like AI and mini nuclear reactors."

This is an old story of colonisation dressed up in semiconductors & utopianism, where the self-celebrating 'bold free will' of the invader comes at the cost of exploitation, extraction & oppression.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/billionaire-freedom-city-greenland/

It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.

This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.

Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.

It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.

It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.

It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.

There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.

It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.

The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.

Check all the features in their website:
https://joplinapp.org

#notetaking #opensource #BuyFromEU #europeanalternatives

Follow them on Mastodon: @joplinapp

Gender equality does not ‘just happen.’

Women’s rights do not advance on their own. They are won through persistence and can easily be lost without vigilance.

We must lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all – not just for International Women’s Day, but every single day.

#InternationalWomensDay