AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
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- on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19h ago
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on AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
This general allowance would also apply to individuals who have never been customers of an AI company, or to data entered decades ago, for example in chats or on social media. All personal data that an AI company can somehow get its hands on would fall under the provision. There is no need to ask users for consent – companies are automatically assumed to have an overriding “legitimate interest” if they train or use any AI product.
How does using lumo or duck.ai help with that exactly?
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on Apple May Return to Server Market With Nvidia Technology: The system would be sold to outside customers, potentially bringing Apple back into a business it left behind when it discontinued Xserve. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Well maybe this will make hosting CI runners for Mac and iOS development less of a joke.
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on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026
Yeah but its OK when its Apple and not Zuckerberg who are doing it. I have no idea why Apple keeps getting away with everything they do. They could release Metas creepy smartglasses tomorrow in an aluminium finish and people would love them and excuse any privacy concerns.
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on Devuan is a dutch Linux distro free of systemd in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 10 Sep 2026
If you need to ask, it most certainly doesn’t matter to you. Keep using what you are using.
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on 216,000,000 LG Smart TVs are spying on you - Gamers Nexus in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026
These Smart TVs are hanging in lots of meeting rooms at companies around the world. I wonder how many IT departments thought about checking for this.
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on Game design in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
In some areas of the German speaking world known as the “Futureknick”.
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on What is your cloud backup solution? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
For my needs, I just use a Hetzner Storage Share and nextcloudcmd on a timer. I started doing that mostly because I already paid for the hosted Nextcloud instance and I like that it does file versioning for me and that it provides an easy to use GUI to restore files.
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Well for once I don’t think training a model should be considered fair use. At the time when people released their art and writings under such a license there wasn’t the threat of that resulting in them potentially losing their job. I for example stopped contributing to open source completely because of that threat. The reason why I consider training a model on these things immoral is that millions of people put in the effort of creating code or art in various forms and some rich assholes come along scrape it all and sell it back to us while creating ungodly amounts of pollution. It really doesn’t matter to me that a few bootlickers run some inferior models on their own system. They are legitimising AI by using it and are encouraging others to also do so. Meanwhile the damage is already done with artists being now accused of publishing AI-generated images because they wanted to do a good thing by releasing their art online for free and the models happily imitating their style.
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
“You just don’t understand it” was also what the crypto people always told me when I called their obvious ponzi scheme a ponzi scheme.
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
I don’t know why you are talking about privacy. Expectation of privacy is unrelated to copyright. Anyway the point I am making is that a license allowing something doesn’t make it moral. Sure, the law allows someone to train their slop generator on my code but I can still think they are an unethical piece of shit for doing so. The same goes for the people who then use such a model. Which is also why I don’t feel bad about techbros crying about how they are bullied online for using AI.
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
A license may allow something but that doesn’t make it ethical to do. At the time these licenses where written the wholesale pillaging of the commons by AI companies wasn’t a thing. For that reason I don’t think it matters what license anything was published under. Unless you where given permission by the author its not OK to train your model on it.
I consider Open Weights models only open in name, the training data is almost never released. As such it is just an attempt at open washing. Its like releasing some executable files and calling that Open Binaries.
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Yes, you are acting unethical. Your self-hosted model is neither open nor was it trained with consent. Using them is just as unethical as using the models from OpenAI.
Too obvious, we need to workshop that. How about “We own the ICE”. Also someone needs to implement the “partnered groceries” program so people stop pirating cold air. I am sick of people side loading food. Third party and homebrew food is a huge security risk after all.