I fully agree with this. All those doomsayers about AI are there to sell something willingly or not. Let's look at the current threats we're seeing now, not the imaginary ones being the results of people taking SciFi a bit too literally.

It's really coming from everywhere these days. Let's make sure this doesn't get adopted.

A longer account of a seminar showing the amount of people and arguments against chat control. The EU commission is pretty isolated in this madness.

This is a very worrying development in Europe. This feels a lot like a dream come true for police states... Let's not go there.

Timely and needed statement as fights against cryptography are emerging again.

Definitely very important as our privacy is attacked once more...

A bad solution in search of a problem basically. Let's look at the alternatives and fund proper solutions to why people are victimized, shall we?

Please, even if you're not French go and sign this. It can't be allowed to pass, this would create a dangerous precedent.

Definitely this. There's still so much to achieve through FOSS, lots of missed opportunities. The mentioned factors clearly played a huge part in the current situation.

Welcome in France, this country which claims to be a beacon for Human Rights but has a problem with its law enforcement for the past two centuries... surveillance abounds and its accelerating.

This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do...

Concerning moves on the ICANN side... already in the agreements around .com and now trying to make its way into .net.

This is an excellent piece. Very nice portrait of Emily M. Bender a really gifted computational linguist and really bad ass if you ask me. She's out there asking all the difficult questions about the current moment regarding large language models and so far the answers are (I find) disappointing. We collectively seem to be way too fascinated by the shiny new toy and the business opportunities to pay really attention to the impact on the social fabric of all of this.

There's really something rotten in this AI "arms race"... they're clearly making mistakes to go fast for PR purposes and using tools the wrong way. This can only lead to large scale disinformation if they don't correct course quickly. This has more political impacts than it looks at first sight.

It's limits and biases are well documented. But, what about the ideologies of the people behind those models? What can it tell us about their aims behind those models? Questions worth exploring in my opinion.

Very interesting model, I didn't know about this one. As pointed out you can't really base policy decisions upon it but that's still powerful since it explains some of the phenomena at play in the real world. In this way it is enough to debunk some of the assumptions taken a bit too much for granted.

As they say: follow the money. That gives an idea about the incentives and various agendas behind this take over.

This is really going down the drain. Right wings extremists basically took over the content moderation vacuum. I wonder how long before this turns into simply into an extremist echo chamber with no real user on it.

Interesting food for thought. Not necessarily easy to see it used in as many fields as the article claims. Maybe a bit too much on the techno solutionist side at times. Still, that sounds like an interesting guideline and path to explore.

Too little too late? Let's hope not... now it's time to see radical changes.