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Ana-Maria Cretu @ana-mariacretu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Workshop details: 📅 Submission deadline: May 28, 2026 📅 Workshop: August 24, 2026, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM 📍 SOUPS 2026, Hanover, Germany 👉 Submission information: ag2425.github.io/AIG-CSAM-NCI... Co-organized with the amazing Alexandra Gonzales, @mirandawei.bsky.social, and Natalie Grace Brigham.

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Community Building for Researchers on Generative AI-Facilitated Image-Based Abuse

A half-day workshop at SOUPS 2026 bringing together researchers on AIG-NCII and AIG-CSAM to explore prevention, detection, and response strategies.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/04/2026

The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Unbelievable things coming from the handmade LLM community youraislopbores.me

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So "lawmakers will outlaw use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets"... just when health, climate & environment scientists are stressing the urgency of helping more livestock farmers OUT of food supply markets? And what a silly, pointless move!

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EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products

Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

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Ana-Maria Cretu @ana-mariacretu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane! www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

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European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This is a fucking joke -- you need a paid account to turn off Gemini?? If anything this is the best proof of how deeply unpopular AI is (pay me or you must use the slop machine that costs me billions every year)

A screenshot of Google's Gemini Apps activity settings, where the Turn off button is greyed out. A notification states that "This setting is not currently available for your account type", suggesting that you cannot turn off Gemini on a free account.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/06/2025

i can’t take the hypocrisy in so much western media coverage of israel’s bombing of iran and iran’s retaliation. israel can do whatever it wants and they’ll find a way to legitimize it, but iran is positioned as fundamentally evil and thus deserving of attack and bloodthirsty in its response.

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I posted this on the bad place, but I am once again asking privacy scientists to have a look at what's going on with medical professionals. Things are really bad there 🫠

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Welp, guess I'm not the only one that had this useless and environmentally destructive "feature" pushed to their phone. Has anyone figured out how to remove it on Android? (besides switching to Signal)

Google trends for the search "remove meta ai whatsapp", showing a very clear peak towards the end (today), with the projection for this week being the maximum of the curve.

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Reading synthetic data papers in healthcare journals is often infuriating as a privacy (ex-)researcher, but I stumbled across one that is really egregious. The authors cite Stadler et al. (the initial work on membership inference attacks on SDG), to (wrongly!) dismiss a SOTA notion of privacy,

A screenshot of the paper, with the following section highlighted:

However, differential privacy has been shown to not fully mitigate the risk of re-identiﬁcation. Stadler and colleagues have shown that under certain circumstances, neither the original implementation of PrivBayes nor PATEGAN (Private Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles Generative Adversarial Network) reliably prevents linkage attacks, leaving some samples vulnerable to membership inference attacks.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc..., published at ICAIC25, blatantly plagiarises a paper by myself and colleagues at the Turing,, claiming that they developed the sqlsynthgen package. Although the text has been rephrased, the contents are nearly identical.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/01/2025

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

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Florimond Houssiau @fhoussiau.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is so much better than having a liveable planet

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