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awkapuma

YouTube anunció una IA que estima la edad del usuario.

Google extrae de sus usuarios una montaña de datos que analiza profundamente, ¿qué más creen que puede estimar?

¿Acaso puede estimar a quién votarán sus usuarios? ¿Y podría ser capaz de anticipar el comportamiento de las masas si ya puede estimar el comportamiento de millones de usuarios individualmente?

¿Las #bigtech pueden o podrán anticipar comportamientos que ellas mismas moldean?

#ia #ai #bigtech #BigTechs
#ReflexionesAwkapuma

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InlineStyle.it

A week ago we submitted InlineStyle as a project on StartupFast, and while we aim to be a no-profit and thus the name "startup" doesn't fit exactly what we want to be, we are still proud of being elected the most voted startup for yesterday

It's just one day of glory, but it's a first step toward recognition of FOSS solutions as a real alternative to #bigtech #saas

#degoogle#buyeu#buyeuropean
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ᏵꝊ𐌐𐌀𐌋

In a press statement, Nayara Energy – an Indo-Russian oil refining and marketing company - said Microsoft is currently restricting access to its “own data, proprietary tools, and products
This is exactly what happens if you depend solely on the big tech's cloud infra for your operations. They'll just shutdown your business at the drop of a hat.
#microsoft #cloud #nayara #bigtech #techcapitalism

www.thehindu.com/business/nayara-energy-moved-delhi-hc-against-microsoft-over-suspension-of-services/article69865880.ece
The Hindu · Nayara Energy moved Delhi HC against Microsoft over suspension of servicesNayara Energy challenges Microsoft in Delhi High Court over abrupt service suspension amid EU sanctions interpretation.
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SURF

Ben je nog opzoek naar een interessante podcast voor in de zomervakantie? Luister dan nu de drie-delige podcastserie over nationale autonomie en internationale slagkracht: 'De Samenwerkingsutopie'.

Luister de podcastserie: surf.nl/podcast/surfsounds-spe

SURF.nlSURFsounds special de samenwerkingsutopieIn deze drie-delige serie gaan we op zoek naar de balans tussen nationale autonomie en internationale slagkracht. Met wie werk je samen en met wie niet? Welke voorwaarden gelden er? Wat zijn de risico’s? Hoe maak je daarin bewuste keuzes? Hoe zorg je voor wederkerigheid? En wanneer is het oké om autonomie in te leveren?
#bigtech#samenwerking
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"If they succeed in their current efforts, companies like Google will have done so mainly because they already control the most crucial nodes of digital exchange. When it comes to news, research, and plenty of other important things, their “innovation” will essentially consist of having devised a means of aggregating arguments and information that have already been gathered, organized, and accumulated by others without having to offer any compensation in return.

The effects of that might be profound, but nothing about the underlying process would be creative in any meaningful sense of the word, and big monopolies have been pursuing some version of it since the inception of capitalism itself: seeking ownership and control over vital infrastructure, co-opting or subordinating smaller actors in the marketplace, reducing business costs to increase their profits, and—most crucially of all—reducing the cost of labour to do the very same.

Here, we find not the constructive pattern envisioned by Schumpeter but the visceral instincts of capitalist predation taken yet again to their inevitable and logical conclusion. If the rapacious vanguardists of the AI revolution succeed in their designs, the impact will doubtless be significant and far reaching. The revolution itself, however, will have been anything but creative."

thewalrus.ca/the-ai-revolution

The Walrus · The AI Revolution Is a Heist | The WalrusBehind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation
#AI#GenerativeAI#Google
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Given all this, it’s natural to ask: should we really try to build a technology that may kill us all if it goes wrong?

Perhaps the most common reply says: AGI is inevitable. It’s just too useful not to build. After all, AGI would be the ultimate technology – what a colleague of Alan Turing called “the last invention that man need ever make”. Besides, the reasoning goes within AI labs, if we don’t, someone else will do it – less responsibly, of course.

A new ideology out of Silicon Valley, effective accelerationism (e/acc), claims that AGI’s inevitability is a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics and that its engine is “technocapital”. The e/acc manifesto asserts: “This engine cannot be stopped. The ratchet of progress only ever turns in one direction. Going back is not an option.”

For Altman and e/accs, technology takes on a mystical quality – the march of invention is treated as a fact of nature. But it’s not. Technology is the product of deliberate human choices, motivated by myriad powerful forces. We have the agency to shape those forces, and history shows that we’ve done it before.

No technology is inevitable, not even something as tempting as AGI."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change courseBy Guardian staff reporter
#AI#AGI#BigTech
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Aral Balkan

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?

But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.

No, no, this must be fake news.

(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)

socialwebfoundation.org/

#Meta #Mastodon #MastodonGGMBH #socialWebFoundation #fediverse #BigTech #capitalism #peopleFarming mamot.fr/@Khrys/11493524133827

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Online #Tracking is Out of Control—#PrivacyBadger Can Help You Fight Back
#BigTech giants like #Google, #Meta, and #Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their #trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information.
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/onli
#privacy #surveillance

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight BackEvery time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control of their data.
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unruhe

L'Italia (e tutta l'Europa) ha detto che i grandi del Web non pagheranno tasse, tanto ci penseranno gli italiani a pagare le proprie e quelle che avrebbero dovuto pagare i giganti del web. Ah, bene. È tutto risolto.
Dipenderemo sempre più da prodotti e servizi digitali americani. Oh, che bello. La povera gente che pensava di sostituire Microsoft con Linux. Poveri illusi, eh?
E tutto torna alla normalità. Tutto pronto e messo a 90°. Certo, poteva pure andare peggio, oh mà
#webtax #bigtech #italy

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