Pernillet

@pernillet.bsky.social

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

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...

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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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...

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.

technologyreview.com

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...

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.

hai.stanford.edu

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...

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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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

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...

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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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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