Eike Schultz

@mirrownis.bsky.social

AI scientist @ Uni zu Lübeck, Germany | Active for #VoltSH | Member of the LGBTQ+ community Feel free to reach out for any reason, always happy to help out! You can find my contact details at the obvious places.

Violence against women and girls has moved into our devices. From image-based abuse to coordinated harassment and non-consensual synthetic media, these attacks silence, intimidate and exclude women from public life. We must stop this. Read our full statement: https://loom.ly/ix2wXzw

A large white statistic on a purple background reads: 98% of deepfakes are porn.
A large white statistic on a purple background reads: 99% target women.A large white statistic on a purple background reads: 74% of deepfake pornography users don't feel guilty about it.Text on a purple background under the heading 'WE MUST STOP CYBERVIOLENCE' lists four demands: Ban AI systems that generate non-consensual deepfake pornography; Criminalise creation and sharing of non-consensual deepfakes; Ensure cross-border victim support with rapid-response, legal aid, and fast takedowns; Fund prevention and digital literacy. There is a button to 'Read our full article'.

This 👇. These are the only options. Europe can either be a vassal of the US, or a federal Union. The option "Bobbing-lazily -along-as-a-semi-loose-intergovernmental-Union-while-being-besties-with-the-Friendly-Giant-across-the-pond" is no longer available.

Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 8mo ago

The 🇺🇸 Deputy Secretary of State has today made your choice as a European very clear: 1️⃣Live in a vassal state of either America or Russia 2️⃣Live in a united federal EU Which do you choose? www.TheOwnedContinent.eu

For the last year, whenever I wonder why I bother putting so much time into Volt and general politics, the US government puts out statements like this. Yeah, we need a different, renewed European Union, and we need it fast - otherwise, fascists like Trump will dictate the terms for us.

Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

The TV Academy is inviting me to a “GenJam”. Like a game jam, but for generative AI. As the entertainment industry cooks itself in desperation, digital creators are just out here building passionate audiences and making money.

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Welche Produkte in 🇩🇪 mit 19% besteuert werden: - Hafermilch - Windeln - Sojaschnitzel Und Welche mit 7%: - Kuhmilch - Fleisch - Froschschenkel Und Welche überhaupt nicht: - Flugkerosin - Schiffsdiesel - Int. Flugtickets Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.