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"Quem participou do 2º Seminário Nacional de Comunicação do Partido Liberal, a sigla do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, realizado na última sexta-feira, 30, em Fortaleza, teve a chance de aprender. E as oficinas não foram ministradas por qualquer um: os palestrantes eram executivos das próprias big techs, como a Meta (dona do Facebook, Instagram e WhatsApp) e o Google.

A mensagem era clara: as big techs estavam ali em peso, abençoando o evento e compartilhando com os participantes o “caminho das pedras” para usar suas ferramentas mais novas e poderosas.

Essa relação de proximidade foi reforçada por Bolsonaro, que discursou no encerramento do encontro, aos gritos de “volta, capitão” vindos da plateia. O ex-presidente não deixou dúvidas ao afirmar que as empresas de tecnologia estavam “do lado certo”.

Para ele, a nova aposta da extrema direita é justamente investir no potencial que a inteligência artificial oferece para a comunicação política. E foi esse o grande tema do evento.

Durante a manhã, os participantes realizaram três workshops dedicados à inteligência artificial. Mas não era só. Ao lado do salão principal, um estande montado especialmente para a ocasião também chamava a atenção.

Por lá, à semelhança das imagens produzidas por computador inspiradas no estúdio de animação japonesa Ghibli, que viralizou nas redes há poucos meses, os interessados poderiam transformar suas fotos em animações patrióticas. Além de receberem as imagens, aqueles que iam ao estande sentavam com profissionais para aprender a usar as ferramentas de IA."

intercept.com.br/2025/06/04/of

Intercept Brasil · O que aprendi na oficina de IA que Google e Meta deram para extrema direitaSeminário do PL, partido de Jair Bolsonaro, celebra obsessão com inteligência artificial e uma relação cada vez menos escondida entre big techs e a extrema direita.
#Brasil#IA#BigTech

🫰 Germany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giants • FT

「 Germany’s federal commissioner for media and culture, Wolfram Weimer, told Stern magazine on Thursday that the new government is drafting a digital levy on global internet platforms, although alternatives such as a voluntary commitment by the affected tech companies to pay more tax in Germany are also still under consideration 」

ft.com/content/39d4678d-a7e1-4

Financial Times · Germany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giantsBy Olaf Storbeck

Ja maar de groepsapp dan?
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Vanaf het nieuwe scoutingseizoen is Scouting PK uit #nijmegen helemaal over op Signal. :signal:

Hierdoor kunnen alle leden, leiding en ouders weer deelnemen aan de groepscommunicatie, zonder zich over te moeten leveren aan #bigtech 💰

Met een beetje goede wil, kunnen we gewoon loskomen. 💪

I modelli di business delle #Bigtech sono predatori per necessità?
Probabile, perché la loro esistenza si basa sulla "fame" di dati

Dopo i dati personali, ora si saccheggia ogni fonte per addestrare gli #LLM

Esempi: contro #Anthropic c'è una class action per avere usato milioni di libri protetti da #copyright, più una causa da parte di #Reddit, contro #OpenAI c'è una causa del #NYT, contro Cohere una causa di CondéNast e Vox Media... per citarne alcune.

"While generative AI and AI agents are the buzzwords that splash across the headlines, the same dynamics are true of precursors to contemporary AI systems like automated decision-making technologies used in banking, hiring, and criminal justice
(...)
More than a decade of evidence demonstrates how it goes: The introduction of these systems concentrates power among the deployers of the tech, leaving those on the receiving end more insecure, vulnerable, and unable to contest the determinations made by the “smart machine” at the expense of the broader public. These tools are often invisible to those judged by them, and inscrutable even when they are visible.

Why society would ever accept this bargain is the critical question at hand. Amid the excitement over AI’s (speculative) potential, the sobering reality of its present and recent past is obscured. When we consult the record on how AI is already intermediating critical social infrastructures, we see that it is materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality, render institutions opaque to those they are meant to serve, and concentrate power in the hands of the already powerful. (...) It makes clear that for all the whiz-bang demos and bold Davos proclamations, on the ground AI is consistently deployed in ways that make everyday people’s lives, material conditions, and access to opportunities worse and the systems that incorporate them stronger.

This report’s title, Artificial Power, captures the critical, and at times contradictory, moment we find ourselves in. On one hand, the tech oligarchy has successfully deployed “AI”—as a strategic marketing term and as a set of automation technologies—to cement and grow its power. At the same time, this power is vastly inflated, contingent, and poised for disruption."

ainowinstitute.org/publication

AI Now Institute · Executive SummaryThose of us broadly engaged in challenging corporate consolidation, economic injustice, tech oligarchy, and rising authoritarianism need to contend with the AI industry or we will lose the end game. Accepting the current trajectory of AI proselytized by Big Tech and its stenographers as “inevitable” is setting us up on a path to an unenviable […]

Why #bigtech 's approach to #AI development is anti-democratic:
1. they represent powerful technologies of centralisation and control
2. they fuel ideologies of unchecked economic growth
3. they prioritise efficiency over accountability
4. they enable absolute control coupled with unaccountable power

Detail in this excellent (and not too long) academic paper by Gina Neff: sociologica.unibo.it/article/v

Does anyone know what channels we can use to put pressure on governments to not use Big Tech AI?

sociologica.unibo.itView of Can Democracy Survive AI? | Sociologica