Paradossi #BigTech: Alla fine i soldi delle mie tasse dati ai milanesi di #BendingSpoons per la app #Immuni, inutile per la mia salute, sono stati usati per acquistare e smerdare (“enshittification” in gergo tecnico) la app Komoot, molto utile alla mia salute.

After reading today that OpenAI received an additional 40 billion USD in funding, I asked myself why would anybody keep investing in such a questionable company and leadership. But, of course, it was Softbank’s Masayoshi Son who invested. Given his failings in the last half-decade with WeWork and the rest of his Vision Fund, is this the sign that OAI is going down?

Meta Seeks Trump’s Help in Combatting EU Fine https://www.byteseu.com/884562/ #BigTech #eu #Europe #Facebook #Government #Instagram #international #Meta #News #PYMNTSNews #revenue #SocialMedia #What'sHot

Digital abkoppeln – So geht’s!

Deine Daten sind die Währung der Tech-Giganten. Zeit, ihnen den Geldhahn zuzudrehen! Mit #Unplugtrump zeigen wir dir, wie du Alternativen nutzt & digitale Unabhängigkeit gewinnst.

Welche Alternativen nutzt ihr?

Teil 1

#TuesdayColumn: With the 'death of God', humanity's left without that sweet validating judgement we oh so crave. And 25 years ago, in #DeusEx, #BigData was suggested to take up that mantle of omniscient arbiter... #AI #datamining #BigTech #writing #tech

The Divine Mandate of Big-Data:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/the-divine-mandate-of-big-data/

Zuckerberg Seeks Trump’s Support as Meta Pushes Back Against EU Ad Rules

#Meta #Facebook #DMA #GDPR #Zuckerberg #DonaldTrump #EURegulation #BigTech #AIRegulation #TechPolicy #Europe #EU

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/01/zuckerberg-seeks-trumps-support-as-meta-pushes-back-against-eu-ad-rules-xcxwbn/

‘Ursula von der Leyen told the European parliament on Tuesday that the bloc was prepared to hit services exports including those from #BigTech companies if US President Donald #Trump imposed “reciprocal #tariffs” on all imports into the US.’
https://on.ft.com/3G2eq07

Hi, we need your #help ! There is an initiative going on in @Radboud_uni to end reliance on #bigtech .

The aim is to "reverse the ongoing transition to Big Tech and invest in local expertise while working with other European universities [...] "for an autonomous European academic IT-infrastructure".

https://www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh/open-letter-big-tech.html#msdynttrid=kzwy8AA3yuXFchaoL1gbYO__QPQGVZX42k2tUKpebLM

If you could #sign it that would be great! You don't need to give your name if you don't want.

"Die Europäische Kommission fordert seit langem eine „souveräne europäische Cloud“, aber niemand scheint sich darüber einig zu sein, was „Souveränität“ eigentlich bedeuten soll", schreibt unsere Kolumnistin Frederike Kaltheuner in ihrem neuesten Text.

#Europa #USA #China #Cloud #BigTech

https://t3n.de/news/die-forderung-nach-europas-souveraenitaet-ist-nicht-nur-technischer-natur-sie-ist-existenziell-1680523/

I think Im about to step out of academic life now. Ofc its easier for me, Ive had my 20 years of study, lecturing, paper writing, app making and phd doing. I can step away, Im older, I can afford to. But Im not tired or bored, Im angry, appalled, Im not able to carry on because Im ethically so compromised. I just cannot be part of this charade for big tech extractive grifting anymore. Im with Miyazaki.

#academicchatter #academia #bigtech #edtech #ai #genai

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory

Las promesas de la IA:

-Va a mejorar las relaciones humanas
-Ayudará a las personas
-Va a resolver problemas
-Hará que la gente sea más feliz

Lo que está haciendo la IA (y profundizará):

-Arruinar las relaciones sociales.
-Plagiar obras (textos, imágenes, video, música, etc)
-Vigilancia masiva de TODAS las personas
-Bajar los costos de empresarios (emplean IA en vez de empleados)
-Concentrar la riqueza
-Resolverá los problemas SOLAMENTE de los ricos y los monopolios.

Las promesas de la IA son las mismas promesas que nos hacían las redes sociales cuando empezaron:

-Va a mejorar las relaciones humanas
-Ayudará a las personas
-Va a resolver problemas
-Hará que la gente sea más feliz

Las redes sociales de las empresas #bigtech nos hicieron infelices, empeoraron las relaciones humanas y todo, nos vigilan y controlan

Hoy mismo, las IA están acelerando y profundizando el control social, la vigilancia y ayudan a empresas y gobiernos a quitarnos Derechos

Ook Maastricht University roept op tot digitale autonomie. In navolging van Radboud en Utrecht vragen Adriana Iamnitchi en Sally Wyatt in een open brief aandacht voor de risico’s van Big Tech in onderzoek en onderwijs.

open brief
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/lOa7T3XMj9r1Yhs

#OpenAI 's New Feature Detects and Eliminates Original Thought
https://isglitch.com/article/2025-03-31-openai-new-feature

GitHub zaczął wykorzystywać LLM-a Microsoftu. Oczywiście, jak przystało na #GAFAM i omijanie prawa #UE, domyślne zgody na wykorzystanie danych do trenowania i podpowiadania są zaznaczone. Dopiero trzeba się zainteresować mejlem, poświęcić całe 5 minut zabrane z życia, aby odznaczyć i być może być mniej eksploatowanym cyfrowo. Nice.

#Bubble Trouble
"VC funds hv poured ~$200bil into #generativeAI. Making matters worse, e stock market’s #bullrun is deeply dependent on e growth of #BigTech cos fueling e #AI bubble. In 2023, 71% of tot gains in S&P500 were attributable to e #MagnificentSeven —Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, & MS—all of which r among e biggest spenders on AI. Just 4—MS, Alphabet, Amazon & Meta—combined for $246bil of capital expenditure in 2024 to support e AI build-out" 1/2
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/