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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Could not doom-scroll earlier today? Yeah, me neither bc of our dangerous reliance on hyperscaler clouds #AWS us-east-1 outage took down #Signal and chunks of the internet. The culprit was too many critical operations crammed into a single AWS data center cluster in Northern Virginia.

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Dan Blumberg @dblums.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

There's obviously not enough to worry about right now, so I thought, hey why not drop an episode about deepfakes... Fortunately, what @samgregory.bsky.social told me did make feel better. We discuss what technologists can do to help protect our shared reality: open.spotify.com/episode/6HE6...

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AI, Deepfakes, and How Technologists Can Help Us Trust What We See and Hear | Sam Gregory (Exec. Dir. of WITNESS)

CRAFTED. · Episode

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is huge in terms of the fair use piece.

Screenshot of article text. "Notably, Judge Bibas ruled in Thomson Reuters’ favor on the question of fair use. The fair use doctrine is a key component of how AI companies are seeking to defend themselves against claims that they used copyrighted materials illegally. The idea underpinning fair use is that sometimes it’s legally permissible to use copyrighted works without permission—for example, to create parody works, or in noncommercial research or news production. When determining whether fair use applies, courts use a four-factor test, looking at the reason behind the work, the nature of the work (whether it’s poetry, nonfiction, private letters, et cetera), the amount of copyrighted work used, and how the use impacts the market value of the original. Thomson Reuters prevailed on two of the four factors, but Bibas described the fourth as the most important, and ruled that Ross “meant to compete with Westlaw by developing a market substitute.”"

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Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Mixed emotions from Paris today, but immensely enjoyed the rich conversations at the side events I had the chance to attend. Most focused on the power of deliberative democracy, trust and safety, the benefits of AI regulation, the potential of open source and themes of sustainability and inclusion.

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Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Great discussion from @f-mb.bsky.social, Catherine Régis, @ginasue.bsky.social and Célia Zolynski on their recommended actions for AI and elections at the Sorbonne.

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Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

En route to Paris to join some of the discussions on AI safety happening at the AI Action Summit. Very happy to be returning to the City of Light almost a decade after studying at SciencesPo!

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵

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Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Visited de Koepel in Haarlem over the weekend, a former panopticon-style prison turned cultural space (slightly strange, with the questionable inclusion of an escape room...). Stark reminder of the role of surveillance practices and their extension into our daily lives.

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Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Great & timely research that provides rich insights into safety issues with some open VLMs and across different languages 👇

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 07/01/2025

Setting the scene for a head-on clash between Facebook and its EU regulators (where enforcement is split between Ireland/EU Commission).

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The number of risk assessments are coming in #DSA #commsky #eusky Check this overview ⬇️ X, Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, TikTok are there docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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DSA: Risk Assessment & Audit Database

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Laura Bartley @laurabartley13.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Had already stepped away from the noise of X/Twitter for quite some time, but on days like today, I'm seeking meaningful connection. So, hello Bluesky - here to listen, share & hopefully find thoughtful discourse. Here's to brighter skies ahead...

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 14/10/2024

In our latest investigation, Bellingcat researcher @koltai.bsky.social reveals the hidden network behind OpenDream, an AI art generator platform. She found several instances of child sexual abuse material being generated and featured on the site. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/10...

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AI Site OpenDream Let Users Generate CSAM

For months, OpenDream displayed synthetic child sexual abuse imagery online. It now denies responsibility for how people are using its platform.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

From Toni Morrison's 1995 lecture "Racism and Fascism"

When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "market-
placed," or rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy
auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is com-
plete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and
wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly.

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