In this piece published today, I try to argue that "#scraping" is a technical term with more than one political meaning edri.org/our-work/the... and should always be used close to nuances such as size, goal, scope of the collection before expressing a judgment.
These methods – such as web-scraping – have been used to achieve several key victories for digital rights, but can also be exploitative.
I made 400 days!! and then abandoned. It was just a game and not an effective way to learn a language. I basically lost against gamification :D
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Of course, for a moment I was going to forget to include my current Prime Minister, who is also responsible for this dumpster fire that the AIAct could become. Btw AI misgender and misread most of what it claim to do dontspy.eu/x/74
surprised 58.21%, neutral 41.74%
The troubling consequence is that AI companies are presenting themselves as "the only ones who can certify accurate information," while at the same time enabling the worst kind of automated garbage. Read between the lines: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
The next year may bring unprecedented challenges for the protection of elections. That’s why today we are announcing five new steps to protect electoral processes in the United States and other coun...
You can read more in this 10 minutes, (if you read slowly, otherwise is 6) blogpost dontspy.eu/blog/the-dua... Don't Spy EU collects images of policy makers to mock and also to anticipate the distopian scenario we are heading towards.
Why it is imperative to approach the issue with attention to the foundational elements. The technologies that extract identifying points from faces have a lot in common with those used to produce fake...
legitimize Remote Biometric Identification RBI leads to the proliferation of more accurate models, and these are the same ones used to produce deepfakes. It is at this level that the ban must be placed. Nothing good can come from biometric processing of an unwilling subject. dontspy.eu/x/64
sad 99.11%, neutral 0.8%
There are many links between: 1) remote biometric identification (which 250,000 people signed up for at BAN) 2) the production of deepfakes and 3) the proliferation of Foundation Model produced with biometric data of people who NEVER CONSENT. Scholz did not either dontspy.eu/x/174
angry 63.24%, neutral 36.3%
Germany, France and Italy, the most prominent members of the Council, are pushing for unrestricted endowment models. "Models" in AI are exactly the kind of thing that allows abuses like this: www.404media.co/andreessen-h...
A16z has invested in Civitai, which a 404 Media investigation has shown profits from the creation of nonconsensual AI-generated porn of real people.