#BigAI

Alice StollmeyerDenmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features.“Everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features.”<a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DefendDemocracy</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigAI</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence</a>

Aral BalkanAt its core, <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/CCSignals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CCSignals</a> is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not free as in “freedom”) but at least their original licenses (non-commercial, share-alike, no derivatives, and yes, sometimes even just attribution) were genuinely useful for people as well as for corporations.I like to think (perhaps naïvely, I don’t know) that Lawrence Lessig had his heart in the right place when he came up with it all. But I’m biased. I learned how to present from him (including how to use my presentation display) and we even presented a session together back in the day when I was running Open Source Flash. I’m also a big fan of his concept of “institutional corruption”. But I have no illusions that we see eye to eye on all things and I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade.Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.This is Creative Commons jumping the shark (is jumping the shark the original enshittification?) and destroying their credibility with a scheme that doesn’t benefit people, only their corporate donors.Keep using the existing licenses, as they have value, but don’t help them legitimise this latest land grab by the same trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires who are busy destroying our habitat, human rights, and democracy.In fact, if they go ahead with this, it might be an idea to fork the original Creative Commons licenses and publish them under a different name in an effort to counter the use of their legitimacy to whitewash Big AI.<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CreativeCommons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792</a>

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉OMG, it features "Big AI"! <a href="https://idf.social/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAI</a>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“Even by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a>’s historically rarefied standards, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAI</a> is spending stratospheric amounts on talent this year. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> (Facebook) has invested $15bn in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScaleAI</a>, a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> labelling start-up that claims just 900 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#employees</a>. Scale’s 28-year-old chief executive, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AlexanderWang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlexanderWang</a>, will take up a job at a new Meta lab devoted to creating <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/superintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#superintelligence</a>”. His cash and equity in the deal is reported to be worth some $5bn, making him one of the most expensive so-called “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AcquiHires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcquiHires</a>” on record.”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9e9fde8e-37bd-477d-8ebc-6d0a8b70f246" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/9e9fde8e-37bd-477d-8ebc-6d0a8b70f246</a>> (paywall) / <<a href="https://archive.md/pwK9X" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/pwK9X</a>>

Dr PenI shared this on FB but wanted to post here too. Prompted by ppl like Paris Marx recent posts. Technosocial contracts could gate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigtech</a> access, and mitigate the unsustainable stealing of open web knowledge by extractive <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAI</a> for vast profit.All <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> shld run prof dev in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalSovereignty</a>, what it means, affects, how it works. Its part of basic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalliteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalliteracy</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> to have an informed criticality about what is going on in the world.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Alice StollmeyerMicrosoft Copilot Recall remains a privacy nightmare. <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DefendDemocracy</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigAI</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o</a>

Gary Hall2/2 <a href="https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/make-it-fair/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/make-it-fair/</a>Crucially, the approach of the UK Creative Industries’ Make It Fair campaign - of resisting AI ‘piracy’ by preserving or strengthening copyright law - ignores what Bellos and Montagu make clear in Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Copywrongs:• Copyright is a major driver of inequality in the twenty-first century. • It plays a pivotal but often overlooked role when it comes to understanding the roots of disparities of wealth in modern societies. • the wealthiest corporations globally derive their power primarily from owning copyright and patents, with ‘sixteen of the fifty richest people in the world’ amassing their fortunes entirely or partially from copyright-related industries.What’s so fair about this? <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigtech</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ukai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukai</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/makeitfair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makeitfair</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bigai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigai</a>

Alice StollmeyerSpent a full day at <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention">@EUCommission</a> as expert in a foresight workshop on the impact of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AI</a> on <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#democracy</a>.We tried to come up with some positive scenarios too, but that was much harder than dystopian ones, like <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigTech</a>'s take-over of politics & state capture by Big Tech.<a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/EUpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EUpol</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BigAI</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/EuroStack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EuroStack</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:Centralised <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAI</a> thinks that centralised nuclear plants will save their business model while the people are moving towards decentralised electricity production, storage, distribution and use. What approach will centralised government decide to promote after talking to the centralised grid owners that they created through privatisation? <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/FilmAt11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FilmAt11</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Competition</a>: "Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping how we live, work and connect with the world. From chatbots to image generators, AI is transforming our online experiences. But this change raises serious questions: Who controls the technology behind these AI systems? And how can we ensure that everyone — not just traditional big tech — has a fair shot at accessing and contributing to this powerful tool?To explore these crucial issues, Mozilla commissioned two pieces of research that dive deep into the challenges around AI access and competition: “External Researcher Access to Closed Foundation Models” (commissioned from data rights agency AWO) and “Stopping Big Tech From Becoming Big AI” (commissioned from the Open Markets Institute). These reports show how AI is being built, who’s in control and what changes need to happen to ensure a fair and open AI ecosystem."<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/unlocking-ai-research/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/unlocking-ai-research/</a>

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