Making this opt-out is not nearly good enough. According to LinkedIn info, Grammarly actually has product staff focused on "responsible AI" and privacy.
Please don't tell me, in 2026, that these issues are "hard to get right"...
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
Also it feels important to say there is literally no possible way to know what an editor is like *as an editor* by reading published written work by that person, which often goes through… other editors!
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
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New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...
EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.
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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
And another one from me: I explain why OpenAI claiming it had the same red lines as Anthropic is... not accurate. And how it's letting the NSA define terms that the NSA likes to define differently than the common understanding in the English language.
This *has* to be rage-bait...
Spare a thought for the poor millionaires who simply wanted to avoid taxes (of course while willfully ignoring the sociocultural reality of the city), but life became too real too fast
just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism
excellent discussion of the DoD-Anthropic situation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social @rightsduff.bsky.social & @amostoh.bsky.social - highly recommend
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
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Corporate accountability requires raising corporate taxes. Big Tech companies in particular have too much money to NOT be evil, though they’re hardly the only ones.
Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not.
The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.
Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions.
Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.
📣 Together with other watchdog organisations we have today issued a call to withdraw Aura Salla’s appointment as Digital Omnibus rapporteur.
Appointing a former Meta lobbyist to oversee the revision of digital regulations raises serious concerns regarding the undue influence of Big Tech.
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Agreed. There is no “privacy” when you are interacting with a software product built by a company whose entire business model is surveillance, theft, and facilitating social control.
The privacy problem is that OpenAI exists.
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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Governments worldwide are moving to restrict youth access to social media — from Australia’s nationwide under-16 ban to fast-moving proposals in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Tech Policy Press is tracking these legislative efforts across continents and jurisdictions. 40 countries on the map:
This is what kills me about the AI zealots: okay, you got to 95% accuracy. Those are impressive numbers for a college exam.
Those are "things go boom" numbers in chemical manufacturing.
one of the most impactful visuals at CES this year was the massive Doosan booth at the center of the North Hall, with a massive gas turbine as its centerpiece
after decades of subsidized bullshit, the entire pretense that the tech sector cares in the least bit about the environment just fell away
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Amid the deals and demos at the India AI Impact Summit this week, the opportunity to shift the global debate about AI and what kind of world we are building appears to be lost, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha.
why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤
Apple reportedly working on creepware, aka surveillance glasses and other AI-enabled always-on devices.
Not sure how Apple squares these products with its long-standing stance that, "Privacy is a fundamental human right."
NEW @citizenlab.ca report: Cellebrite Used on Kenyan Activist and Politician Boniface Mwangi
citizenlab.ca/research/cel...
What a great year to start building a personal NAS (or any type of desktop PC for that matter)
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This is an important point. I'm thinking here like the study that researchers conducted which said something like "AI" did as well as humans on Scientific Olympiad questions, but the LLM was allowed thousands of trials, and the humans were just allowed a single one.
okay, but it's not the platforms that lose in the push for mandatory age verification, it's human rights and free expression that loses
Pinterest has truly become unusable for interior decoration inspiration with all the GenAI content (fortunately, it's generally quite evident to spot). Any useful websites/magazines out there? I always end up falling on a Reddit rabbit hole or Apartmenttherapy.
