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@pernillet.bsky.social
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Co-founder of Dataethics.eu, talks and teaches data- and AI ethics. Former journalist. Also on Mastodon: @pernillet@mastodon.online

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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Kære kommuner og virksomheder. Tag det her med i jeres AI satsninger. Et ulmende oprør mod AI og datacentre i Danmark holbaekbibliotek.podbean.com/e/datacenter... From the right to the left there is already a huge backlash against AI and data centeres in the US www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/t...
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Datacenter-borgermøde: Det sagde eksperterne | Holbæk bibliotekernes Podcast
Der var borgermøde på biblioteket om det mulige gigant-datacenter i Holbæk, hvor en række eksperter fortalte om forskningen omkring datacentre i Danmark.  Mødet blev optaget og hvis du var en af dem, ...
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Dehumanization. One guy lets an AI agent talk w his parents in Australia. Another one let his agent buy a sponsorship, he could not pay for, in Davos for a speaking slot. How dumb can we humans be In the race for profit? Free reads www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/t...
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Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
With the rise in AI slop, we tend to distrust more, even when it is true. If you factcheck w GenAI you risk getting an authoritative slop answer. Academics, journalists and others have a rising responsibility in fact-checking while big tech makes money on slop www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?
Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Claude is not an ethical choice. It is part of the war machine and may have been responsible for many deaths. Amodei follows Sam Altman’s playbook, of constant hype and overpromising (on AGI), and the LLM is illegally trained on copyrighted content. garymarcus.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There are no heroes in commercial AI
When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Der er masser gode alternativer til US chatbots, fx denne dataethics.eu/da/dansk-cha... udviklet i Danmark #digitalsuverænitet
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Dansk chatbot lover digital suverænitet · Dataetisk Tænkehandletank
Med en meget kraftig server importeret til Odense, med lagring af data i danskejet datacenter...
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hear 9 US individuals leading the fight for humans over data centers, AI film slop, loss of human dignity, surveillance etc Let’s hope these huge protest will not reach Europe as almost everything else from America. We’re smarter in implementing AI, right? time.com/7377579/ai-d...
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The People vs. AI
Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
All over again 😟 Companies try to influence what the chatbots say by providing specific information, lots of it, for the chatbots to soak up. But it is challenging ad chatbots hallucinates, answers on the same question they suck up old content that might be outdated www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...
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Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Risikoen ved at bruge generativ AI chatbots i den offentlige sektor, som jeg forstår Danmark planlægger, er kæmpe stor. Se blot til USA, hvor Sundhedsministeriets chatbot foreslår borgerne, hvilke råvarer de bedst kan sende op i deres endetarm www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...
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RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The disgusting face of a brutal dictatorship: Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul who spent decades as a defiant thorn in Beijing’s side, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison. 6 of his staff at Apple Daily got between 6 and 10 years. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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Live Updates: Hong Kong Court Sentences Jimmy Lai to 20 Years
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Good read. Big AI tech is selling personalisation as something very useful, it might help you, it certainly helps the companies, as they suck up all your data and memory leaving you without control or insight. Alternatives in Europe have not followed suit www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1...
technologyreview.com
What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The future of European tech is open source. It is a strategic choice towards #digitalsovereignty Learn about why open source tech is important for democracy, and about chatbots, open washing, OpenStreetMap and OS2 skole Made w Renée Ridgway and financed by Carlsbergfondet dataethics.eu/opensource
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Open Source Democracy · Dataetisk Tænkehandletank
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Welcome to Europe Mark Bray www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats
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MyData Global @mydataorg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excited to welcome @pernillet.bsky.social, Advisor at dataethics.eu, to the #MyData2025 stage! 📢 Pernille will help guide two timely conversations: 🌍 Europe’s push for digital sovereignty 🩺 Sharing personal health data for care and policy 📍 Join us in Finland this September → conference.mydata.org
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Low-cost and accessible AI therapy chatbots powered by large language models have been touted as one way to meet the need. But new research from Stanford University shows that these tools can introduce biases and failures that could result in dangerous consequences hai.stanford.edu/news/explori...
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Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care | Stanford HAI
A new Stanford study reveals that AI therapy chatbots may not only lack effectiveness compared to human therapists but could also contribute to harmful stigma and dangerous responses.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Have we heard this before if you write ‘social media’ in stead of chatbots: ‘Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Yoshua Bengio is launching a new nonprofit lab to make AI systems act less like humans. Designing Generative AI as humans is manipulative and unethical. They are machines and should look like, talk like and act like machines www.axios.com/2025/06/03/y...
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Yoshua Bengio launches $30M lab to rethink AI design
The goal of the new startup is for AI to act less like humans.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Initial trial for one copyright theft to train GenAI is up 9th June! This case is Getty images trying to save the photo industry. In another The New Yort Time is trying to save journalistic content. And record labels’ try to save music copyright www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc...
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Getty Images spending millions to battle a 'world of rhetoric' in AI suit, CEO says
Getty Images is spending "millions and millions of dollars" on its legal case against Stability AI, the photo licensing company's CEO Craig Peters told CNBC.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We all have a digital ID app (MitID) developed by Netcompany The app only works w Apple and Google. If you buy a European open-sourced smartphone like Fairphone, Volla or Murena you are lost. They can send you by snailmail a small code-device (made in China) so you can work your way around
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
One man w big economic interests and two journalists, who love GenAI, predict that AGI is close. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/p... It is wiser reading what true experts say about it - it is far far away - to the same news organisation here www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
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Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Of course chatbots are not protected by freedom of speech as former Google-staffers from the startup Character.ai claim. It is so dumb and such a waste of time and ressources to discuss whether machines who unethically have dressed up as humans should have any HUMAN rights apnews.com/article/ai-l...
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In lawsuit over teen's death, judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights
A federal judge in Florida has rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Google and others w gigantic economic interests have hyped GenAI. Now they are hyping so-called Agentic AI, and we are seeing the beginning of a hype around AGI, artificial general intelligence, supposedly surpassing all human cognitive skills. It is bullshit, BS. www.axios.com/2025/05/21/g...
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Google leaders see AGI arriving around 2030
Sergey Brin and Demis Hassabis foresee the near future arrival of AI that's equal to or better than humans.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Sam Altmann says he doesn’t feel good about his relationship with technology today, so now he will pour money into the iphone-designer to make an AI gadget. Can’t wait to see how addictive that will be. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/t...
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OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Drop using generative AI in your job applications, says IKEA. It robs you of your personality www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... #genai #ai
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Ikea har tröttnat – vill inte ha ansökningar skrivna med AI: ”Ingen personlighet”
Linda Wallin på Ikea: AI i ansökningar saknar personlighet och gör urvalet svårt. Använd AI som verktyg, inte för att skriva breven.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Making money on GenAIs who’s been trained on copyrighted content w no (license) agreement is not fair use, says report from US Copyright Office. The office boss has consequently been fired by Trump. Get the report here before he orders it to be deleted: www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Listen to @karenhao.bsky.social in this podcast (25 minutes in) podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/h... She points to extremely important unethical issues w GenAI
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Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot
Podcast Episode · Hard Fork · 09/05/2025 · 1h 12m
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thanks @caseynewton.bsky.social for bringing in @karenhao.bsky.social - she’s a brilliant journalist and she’s right in her conclusions on GenAI. Funnily, neither of you - and especially not Kevin - backed her like you praise the makers of GenAI, especially Claude.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New test: OpenAI’s most powerful system hallucinates 33 percent of the time. That is more than twice the hallucination rate of its previous reasoning system. When running another test, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates were 51 and 79 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Character.ai, who is being sued by a mother whose 14-year old son shot and killed himself due to a ‘relationship’ w one of its bots, wants chatbots (machines!) to be protected by HUMAN rights such as freedom of speech This is where we are 🤦🏼‍♀️ centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/charactera...
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character.ai | Personalized AI for every moment of your day
Chat with millions of AI Characters anytime, anywhere. Super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A guide to Americans how dependent they are on Chinese products in their homes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Also Europeans are trying to change habits - getting away fromUS goods and services. What is hardest, do you think?
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Your Home Without China (Gift Article)
We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Many students perfer bots over teachers. But ability to ask endless questions without judgement or pushback isn't a proven way to learn. www.axios.com/2025/04/25/a...
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Chatbot mentoring is popular — but relying on it is risky
Workers and students who turn to AI instead of their teachers and bosses can miss out on key lessons.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Chinese internet users abuse generative AI making deep faked videos and music, mocking the American leaders for what they believe are ridiculous and outrageous policies and remarks. JD vance is known as “the eyeliner man” on the Chinese internet free read www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/b...
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For China’s Trolls, ‘Chairman Trump’ and ‘Eyeliner Man’ Are Easy Targets (Gift Article)
Online mockery of President Trump is fodder for the Communist Party’s propagandists. For liberal-minded Chinese, it is a creative expression of shock at his policies.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
With its monopoly in digital ads, Google is depriving rivals of the ability to compete and harms especially news publishers according to US judge. The Justice Department has asked the court to force Google to sell some pieces of its ad technology business www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...
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Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules (Gift Article)
It was the second time in a year that a U.S. court found that the company had acted illegally to remain dominant.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Did Trump and his billionaire friends make themselves richer by buying when stocks were down KNOWING they would go up w Trump’s plans? Who knows? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
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Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs: From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’ (Gift Article)
Economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused President Trump to reverse course on the steep levies.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Did you hear about the Trump Card? You can buy yourself to a fast-track to US residensy for 5 mio dollars! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/the... Also hear this very interesting and long interview w Howard lutnick, who says it is the brightest gov ever in the USA youtu.be/182ckTL2KBA?...
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The Trump card: $5 million worth 'gold card' for the super rich unveiled - The Times of India
US News: US President Donald Trump unveiled a new 'gold card' under the EB-5 visa program, offering wealthy foreigners permanent US residency for $5 million. T
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Can a stripped-down phone w no browser or apps make us more mindful and concentrated? Yes, but it won’t allow us to live in our societies who are more and more build around the smartphone making us dependent on them taking for granted we all have them…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/t...
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Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure ‘Brain Rot’? (Gift Article)
Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, promise to help us focus. The trade-offs are big.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
While Trump expects every country in the world will come to him, please him and negotiate the tariffs, France suggests that the EU put higher taxes on digital services from the US Here are some European alternatives dataethics.eu/european-tec... www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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European Tech Alternatives · Dataetisk Tænkehandletank
For over 10 years, at DataEthics.eu we’ve maintained lists of alternative tools to big tech’s....
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
After Trump’s tariff announcement tech stocks dived. Apple, Meta and Amazon fell about 9%, Nvidia 8%, Tesla more than 5%, Microsoft and Alphabet both fell about 2% and 4%, respectively. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/t...
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Tech stocks have worst day since Covid pandemic, led by plunge in Apple
Technology stocks plummeted Thursday after President Donald Trump's new tariff policies sparked widespread market panic.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Must read. Shows what is at risk for humans engaging emotionally w manipulative machines enhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6
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Artificial Intelligence: A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot
Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with a chatbot and took his own life at 14. His mother has now filed a lawsuit against the most powerful company in the world.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Good for Signal Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high-ranking officials in the Trump administration….. techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/s...
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Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch
The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Positive news on the Nordics, who are fast adopters of technology, we (still) trust each other, we cooperate, and we build small and mediumsized companies, so the power is widely spread and not concentrated on a few lunatics www.ft.com/content/50d4...
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Nordic companies lead the charge on electric vehicles
Sustainability focus and early adoption of tech drives FT1000-ranked businesses’ progress
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you are lonely, you risk being even more lonely using chatbots, according to two new (not peer-reviewed) studies from chatbot maker OpenAI and MIT. We saw addictions w social media, now we're seing a new addiction w chatbots www.platformer.news/openai-chatg...
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How chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis
New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes?
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Your DNA is up for graps. Google-funded 23andMe is filing for bankrupcy. The CEO, who was once married to Google-founder and had two kids w him, is stepping down www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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DNA testing firm 23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to sell itself
Genetic testing firm 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. on Sunday and said it was looking to sell itself.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Many tech commentstors have scolded Apple for being behind in the 'AI race', there might be a sound reason for holding the horses; AI model needs to be small to fit in an iPhone and that is necessary if Apple is to live up to its privacy promise of on-device processing www.wired.com/story/to-tru...
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To Truly Fix Siri, Apple May Have to Backtrack on One Key Thing—Privacy
The Siri that was promised back in 2011 never quite materialized. Now the big upgrade promised as part of Apple Intelligence is delayed “indefinitely.” Why can't Apple get Siri right?
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A complaint to Norway’s Data authority and from Austrian NOYB says that ChatGPT violates GDPR’s principle on data accuracy by producing false information about individuals…. www.politico.eu/article/open...
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ChatGPT hit with complaint for calling user a child murderer
ChatGPT’s tendency to “hallucinate” and spit out made-up information about people has triggered a second complaint from Austrian privacy group Noyb.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Meta has used stolen books from a pirated book database LibGen to train Llama. So has OpenAI and thus Microsoft. LibGen was made for academics in underdeveloped countries, it is 17 years old and don't pay fines when they lose a case. #ai #genai www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Don’t use AI for search. Using large language models for search “take away transparency and user agency, further amplify the problems associated with bias, and often provide ungrounded and/or toxic answers that may go unchecked by a typical user.” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Interesting read: An entire tourist industry has sprung up around Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the low-cost GenAI DeepSeek www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
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DeepSeek AI founder Liang Wenfeng: China’s new superhero
An entire tourist industry has sprung up around the origin story of the man whose low-cost artificial intelligence model has taken the world by storm
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Spot on media criticism. Even The New York Times falls for AI PR that AGI is near garymarcus.substack.com/p/hype-anthr...
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Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary on AI has degenerated into industry cheerleading
Real journalists do due diligence
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
DeepSeek is just as focused on developing AGI (Superintelligence) as its American competitors - just not for profit - 3 free reads on.ft.com/3XNzvS8
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DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue in contrast to Silicon Valley
Chinese start-up to concentrate resources on building machines with humanlike cognitive capabilities
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Pernillet @pernillet.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The first major test of the Trump administration’s approach to Big Tech’s power will be how it proceeds in the Google search case. A court has ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly by paying Apple, Mozilla and others to be standard search engine www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/t...
nytimes.com
DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google’s Search Monopoly (Gift Article)
In a court filing on Friday, the government signaled a continuation of tough regulatory pressure on the search giant.
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