"In het persbericht schrijft de Commissie niet hoe zij de AVG wil aanpassen, maar in eerder uitgelekte wetteksten[..], stond dat de Commissie het voor AI-bedrijven mogelijk wil maken om data te gebruiken die onder 'bijzondere categorieën' vallen, zoals het geloof of de politieke voorkeur van een persoon, of zijn of haar gezondheidsdata. Die bedrijven mogen die data dan gebruiken om hun AI-modellen te trainen."

Bron: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/241678/eu-presenteert-nieuwe-regels-die-avg-moet-vereenvoudigen-en-ai-meer-data-geeft.html

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#Tech #AI #Bigtech #EU #EuSummit25

@uberprutser @EUCommission

You want simplicity? How about this simple solution: you 100% absolutely and fully prohibit any citizen's private data being fed to any #AI whatsoever under any circumstances. Can't get much simpler, no?

Can we put it on referendum to see which percentage of #EU citizens would prefer that form of simplicity over your idea of "let's simply abolish last remains of privacy rights EU citizens still have so greedy companies will be able to bribe us better"?

R.A. Fisher wrote that the purpose of statisticians was "constructing a hypothetical infinite population of which the actual data are regarded as constituting a random sample." ( p. 311 here ). In The Zeroth Problem Colin Mallows wrote "As Fisher pointed out, statisticians earn their living by using two basic tricks-they regard data as being realizations of random variables, and they assume that they know an appropriate specification for these random variables."

Some of the pathological beliefs we attribute to techbros were already present in this view of statistics that started forming over a century ago. Our writing is just data; the real, important object is the “hypothetical infinite population” reflected in a large language model, which at base is a random variable. Stable Diffusion, the image generator, is called that because it is based on latent diffusion models, which are a way of representing complicated distribution functions--the hypothetical infinite populations--of things like digital images. Your art is just data; it’s the latent diffusion model that’s the real deal. The entities that are able to identify the distribution functions (in this case tech companies) are the ones who should be rewarded, not the data generators (you and me).

So much of the dysfunction in today’s machine learning and AI points to how problematic it is to give statistical methods a privileged place that they don’t merit. We really ought to be calling out Fisher for his trickery and seeing it as such.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #StableDiffusion #statistics #StatisticalMethods #DiffusionModels #MachineLearning #ML

This is beyond horrifying: taking public pictures of women, including yearbook photos and then inserting them without consent into hard-core pornographic AI videos.
https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-secret-desires-chatbot-face-swap/

#ai #privacy #cybercrime #pornography

Just watched the worst report I've ever seen on a news programme, by #Channel4News which usually produces excellent coverage. And guess what, they used #AI to produce it.

But this was dismal, AI added nothing and instead obscured the true horrors - of the attrocities in #Darfur.

What a terrible editorial decision #Channel4

"Here, the first one is free kid! Don't worry, it's not addictive! All the cool kids are doing it! I'm not a dealer, I swear." #ai #addiction

Absolutely no bubble here. It's perfectly rational when a company valued at trillions admits to "irrationality" in a market where firms spend a thousand times their revenue. This is clearly a stable, well-grounded industry, not at all a speculative frenzy we've definitely never seen before.

Also, is Google indirectly hinting that they might need a bailout here?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo

#usa #economy #ai #technology #bubble

🗞️🇪🇺 "Europe is set to streamline its #AI and privacy laws in a move critics say will appease Big Tech and U.S. President Donald Trump. 127 civil organisations called the proposals 'the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history'."

👉 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-ease-ai-privacy-rules-critics-warn-caving-big-tech-trump-2025-11-19/

A couple of months ago, Nicholas Hune-Brown, an editor at Toronto's The Local magazine, received a pitch from Victoria Goldiee, who appeared to be an up-and-coming freelancer, with bylines in The Cut, The Guardian and Dwell. He assigned her a story about healthcare privatization. And then he began to look at her work. Here's how he discovered she was a scammer — but perhaps, still completely real.

https://flip.it/_hFLcv

#Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry #Scams #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Groundbreaking discovery from Italian researchers at University #LaSapienza: they’ve uncovered how genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, driven by #Notch3 protein and #RNA modification, fuel a rare pediatric leukemia (T-cell ALL).

This insight could revolutionize targeted therapies, improving outcomes for youngest patients.

Precision medicine is the future,
stop using #AI for bullsh*t,
use it for this.

#PediatricLeukemia #Genetics #CancerResearch #NHS

EU’s plan to simplify digital laws to benefit mainly large companies at the expense of consumers - https://www.beuc.eu/press-release/eus-plan-simplify-digital-laws-benefit-mainly-large-companies-expense-consumers "a watering down of the EU’s privacy rules and a substantial delay and undermining of AI rules that will benefit mainly non-European Big Tech companies. " #gdpr #ai

Good morning, everyone. Oh, look: Today, the @EUCommission launches their plans to gravely undermine our fundamental rights because tech lobbyists asked them to.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/

#MastoDaoine #EU #DigitalLaw #InfoSphere #Rights #AI #GDPR #DSA #DMA #DataAct

So rblind.com didn't go down, and it isn't anymore broken today than it usually is. Cloudflare breaks #accessibility. It always has, and it always will. Now the rest of you know how it feels to be locked out because you don't run JavaScript and can't solve a captcha. Will you stop using #cloudflare? No, of course not! If it blocks #AI, you're completely fine with denying that blind users might be human at all. As AI becomes more and more capable, the definition of "human" is going to become more and more restrictive, until everyone who isn't completely able bodied and doesn't have absolutely perfect vision, hearing, and cognition is completely excluded.

I would like to marry Ronny Chieng. #AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46psLEZCwK8

Sounds accurate.

#AI