The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
This is the account of the French Foreign Ministry
This will be an interesting year for CSOs and Big Tech when they meet at multistake holder events such as Rightscon and so on. Will they avoid talking on their complicity with fascist govmnts? Will they turn to cynicism? Will they ignore us and laugh at our backs? And what will we say back to them?
About the PhD Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
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table 2 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960
table 3 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960
table 4 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960
I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
These days the most salient problems in my mind around AI are cognitive and creative erosion. The way this tech is devastating epistemic tools that are key to education and arts is egregious. And it’s part of the legitimation narrative protecting the AI hype. First thing needed is to notice it.
Luddites weren't anti-tech.
They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker.
I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.
Well, after some existencial weeks, I'm back. So, let's talk about cute "innocent" AI narratives that invisibilize situations of injustice.
One (or none) like, and we call it a go on hyperscale data centers and the myth of the inmateriality of "the cloud".
Redaction of that article is as broad as it seems and it's incompatible with the prohibition of prior censorship contained in article 7 of the Mexican Constitution, as well as article 13.2 of the American Convention on Human Rights.
The new deliberation process will happen from May 8 to 22.
With respect to digital platforms, Article 109 of the proposal gives the power to the now super powerful Digital Agency (new organism concentrating previous autonomous organs) to block digital platforms completely when there are infractions to laws and when the DA so establishes.
Mexico is presenting a new Telecommunications and digital services law that was originally planned to be approved fast track.
After an intense backlash of civil society and other sectors, the proposal was halted and is now open to multisectorial participation.
Why was this law so bad.
Big Tech are just like oil companies and pharmaceutical corporations: reckless, undemocratic, and willing to take all (including your life) for profit
The difference is marketing; they have convinced people they're good and worrying for the future
It's time to redirect rage & justice against them
Recomiendo mucho leer todo lo que @abeba.bsky.social ha escrito al respecto; trae una perspectiva relacional bastante cercana a lo que trabajamos por allá 👌
Anoche se cerró un ciclo muy hermoso en @r3d.mx
En nuestro festejo por los 11 años de existencia, nuestro director anunció su salida oficial de la organización y el inicio del proceso de transición.
Ha sido una etapa increíble; gracias por tanto querido @tumbolian.bsky.social
Seguimos ✊️❤️🔥
Trumpists are making the Signal scandal a "security problem" because an idiot sandwich gave a journalist access to a high-level chat.
It's a top moment of stupidity, and they were already high.
They're about to say encryption fails because Putin can read your chats if you show him directly
Si ves esto cita con la energía que le aportas a bluskai
Mañana es el Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia en 🇦🇷
Se marcha por mucho de lo que el gobierno actual se ha empeñado en destruir, desde la cultura hasta la institucionalidad que se construyó tras salir de la última dictadura
Nunca más. Por la democracia y la justicia social ✊️
"Protesta no es violencia. La policía va a reprimir todo atentado contra la República”
"Protest is not violence. The Police will repress any attempt against The Republic"
This message was both in image and in audio in different public transport spots as a warning against to citizens in general
All eyes on Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 today
After days of harsh repression from the security forces to the social protests demanding a rise in pensions (including violence against old protesters), the government is trying to pass an agreement with the IMF
This message was disseminated today (image and audio)
La democracia termina antes de que uno pueda ver y decir que la democracia terminó.
Ese segundo momento siempre llega tarde y lo que pasa hoy en Argentina es eso mismo. Esto es el terror, lo que está del otro lado, su contrario, y negarlo es rechazar la posibilidad misma de buscar una salida.
Bluitié esto hace una semana.
Hoy diputados libertarios se agarraron a las piñas en plena sesión mientras afuera reprimen protestas, fajan jubilados y se matan entre acusaciones de corrupción.
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One important policy of fascism is to establish a clear distinction between allies and enemies/the good and the bad citizens/bad-evil that the leader then has to fight (eliminate somehow).
"Terrorist" distinctions are key to doing this since they allow the use of "legitimate" public violence
En Estados Unidos desaparecieron a un estudiante. Hay que leerlo dos, tres veces, para dimensionar el contexto fascista. En Estados Unidos desaparecieron a un estudiante.*
* Y las universidades ya empezaron a alinearse con las políticas progenocidas y persecutorias del gobierno. Apenas empieza.
One of the very few good news stories about Trump's designations of key agencies is about Gail Slater.
Might this be a small crack for getting big tech under antitrust controls? Any thoughts?
www.ft.com/content/7697...
Es como la versión idiota de lo que pasa en Estados Unidos y decir eso ya es un montón pensando en que allá tienen a Musk haciendo una estupidez un día y al otro día también
Qué depresión total el devenir de la política institucional en Argentina. Ningún límite fue suficiente ni las reservas democráticas fueron suficientes para que no se fuera todo a la mierda.
* cuando refiero a "las redes" pienso sí en plataformas como Meta o Twitter pero pienso más bien en las grandes corporaciones en control de la infraestructura que les permite desarrollar esos productos
Justo el punto sería el ocultamiento de ese control estructural de la infraestructura
Otra repetida ad nauseam -incluso ahora- es la del "espacio público" creado por las redes sociales
Si entendemos que "situar el poder" (político, económico, etc.) es una condición para controlarlo, la invisibilización del carácter privado de las redes ha ocultado ese poder a la perfección ✨️
y, con ello, dejar a los sujetos privados desarrollar ese ecosistema por fuera de las restricciones más tradicionales del mundo analógico (legalidad, rendición de cuentas, responsabilidad x impactos)
El paraíso capitalista: un entorno sin responsabilidades para la expansión del poder corporativo
