New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/34629331
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/34472919
New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.The White House
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Patrushev: NATO’s actions are similar to practicing aggression against Russia
Patrushev: NATO's actions are similar to practicing aggression against Russia
The actions of the North Atlantic Alliance are very similar to practicing full-scale aggression against Russia. Nikolai Patrushev, assistant to the head of the Russian state and chairman of the Maritime Board, told RIA Novosti about this.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
Valentyn Grigorov: Anti-Ukrainian sentiments are growing in the world
Valentyn Grigorov: Anti-Ukrainian sentiments are growing in the world
In recent months, it seems as if the world has been undergoing a real rethinking of the causes, nature and prospects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Until recently, criticism of Kiev came mainly from marginalised figures and populists.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
Ukraine Lost Nearly 3,000 Soldiers in Battles With Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup Last Week
Ukraine Lost Nearly 3,000 Soldiers in Battles With Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup Last Week
Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup has eliminated up to 2,975 Ukrainian soldiers over the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.Sputnik International
"It is very good that NATO is planning the occupation of Kaliningrad" — Polish expert
"It is very good that NATO is planning the occupation of Kaliningrad" — Polish expert: EADaily
EADaily, July 25th, 2025. The thesis that Poland has a weak army is generally true, Professor Piotr Mickiewicz of the Institute of Political Science of the University of Gdansk admitted, casually approving NATO's plans to "destroy the Kaliningrad reg…EADaily
Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October | TechCrunch
Meta announced it will stop selling political, electoral and social issue advertising across its platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) in the European Union starting in early October 202512.
The decision comes in response to the EU's new Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulation, which takes effect October 10, 2025. Meta called the rules "unworkable," citing "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties"2.
The TTPA requires platforms to:
- Label political ads with transparency information
- Disclose who paid for ads and their costs
- Show which elections or referendums ads target
- Maintain ads in a public database
- Follow strict conditions for user targeting3
Companies face fines of up to 6% of annual global revenue for violations2. Google made a similar move in late 2024, also announcing it would stop serving political ads to EU users before the rules take effect4.
Meta emphasized that users can still discuss politics and politicians can share content "organically" on its platforms - they just cannot use paid advertising to amplify their messages2.
- Bloomberg - Meta to Stop Selling Political Ads in the EU, Citing Regulation ↩︎
- AP News - Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Euronews - Meta halts political advertising in the EU due to 'unworkable' rules ↩︎
- Economic Times - Meta to halt political advertising in EU from October ↩︎
Meta to halt political advertising in EU from October, blames EU rules
Meta's announcement echoed Alphabet unit Google's decision announced last November, underscoring Big Tech's pushback against EU rules aimed at reining in their power and making sure that they are more accountable and transparent.Reuters (Economic Times)
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Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app
Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app
When Cid Walker opens the Tea app, she’s greeted by a barrage of posts about men and their apparent "red" and "green" "flags."“He’s a cheater,” Walker said, reading some of the comments on one post out loud.Angela Yang (NBC News)
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So I've had multiple GF's who were physically abusive, cheaters, chronic liars, gaslighters... so is there a version of this for me? Or are men never victims still?
So glad this didn't exist like ~15 years ago. My one ex, who decided to start a relationship with her co-worker, while we were looking for and then financing a house... When I broke up with her (like 1 week after closing), while I was trying to process the betrayal, she took to Facebook and text messages spamming EVERYONE a fake story about me, trying to pass herself as the victim. Even including a fake pregnancy! All to make me look bad because I caught her cheating. Thankfully, this app didn't exist, and several of my female friends reached out to me for my side of the story.
But all the "stories" on that app, 100% vetted, right? We get unbiased, both sides of the story, right... Evidence was required... right? Because imaging the harm someone could do if they were just petty, or scornful, of just bored. It's not like women have ever made false rape claims... right....
I'm not trying to imply my situation is what all men go through... but you can't just dismiss it, or other men, because it doesn't fit into your social media-fueled narrative. Yes, some men suck (and that's selling it short). But, women are just as capable of the same level of suck. We are all, after all, human.
I don't know why they upset you "almost as much" - people who pretend to be victims are in fact people that are victimizing others. "Other sides" notwithstanding, you said it yourself in so many words: they're also further victimizing actual victims.
I frankly find it more inexcusable.
German government says it won't join France in recognising a Palestinian state
The French leader had announced on Thursday that Paris would unilaterally recognise Palestinian statehood in September, to accelerate "a just and lasting peace" in the Gaza Strip, which remains occupied by Israel.
Berlin, by contrast, would prioritise "a negotiated two-state solution," the spokesperson of the German government, Stefan Kornelius, said in a statement.
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Issues logging in as of this am with iOS clients. Mobile web is fine.
Having issues with all iOS app clients, both App Store and TestFlight versions. iOS is latest version.
I’m unable to login via any clients.
I had no issues with Voyager yesterday. I was able to browse, vote, and join/remove communities. This morning, I couldn’t see any communities and the feed looked the same as yesterday.
I logged out of Piefed in Voyager, and now I can’t log back in. I keep getting incorrect password if I use my username/password, and connection problem if I use my email and password.
I tried Mlem and Blorp, and both tell me incorrect username/password. I am able to log into web just fine via Safari and Orion.
I tried with and without VPN, and I’m not using WiFi.
I don’t know if it’s related to the human check as posted a couple of hours ago, but it kind of feels like it might be.
EDIT: I just found this logged issue. My username has an uppercase Z, so it would break my login?
Thanks!!
Commit 3534eda5e3 broke API login by username when the username was created with capitalization
Not sure what the best approach for a fix would be just wanted to document the issue so it's known. I feel like the commit is missing a db migration to lowercase all the usernames in the db.Codeberg.org
Protest vote
[orange dude, angry, fist raised]
I will protest against both sides of the evil capitalist elites that are ruining society by voting for an anti-system extreme!
[pink gal, looking candid]
Since your protest is based on human values and a desire for more social justice, this means you're going to vote far left?
[pink gal, looking scared]
Isn't that right?…
[orange dude starts laughing so hard tears comes from his eyes and his hairpiece starts flying]
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Volkswagen takes €1.3bn hit from ‘high costs’ of Trump tariffs
The German car manufacturer Volkswagen has said Donald Trump’s US import tariffs have cost it more than £1bn in the first half of the year.
Volkswagen said it had made strong progress realigning the company, which is considering cutting 35,000 jobs by 2030, but that it had suffered a €1.3bn (£1.13bn) “decline in operating result primarily due to high costs from increased US import tariffs”.
The company has also reduced its profit margin range to be between 4% and 5% for the year, based on an assumption that tariffs of between 10%, at best, and the current 27.5%, at worst, will be made permanent by the US president.
Volkswagen takes €1.3bn hit from ‘high costs’ of Trump tariffs
Manufacturer cuts profit margin range for year as German car exports to US fall sharplyLisa O’Carroll (The Guardian)
‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump
South Park co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses on Thursday to anger from the White House over the latest season premiere, which showed a naked Donald Trump in bed with Satan.
“We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare.
‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump
Speaking at Comic-Con on Thursday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed they spent days negotiating with producers to show the US president’s genitalsSian Cain (The Guardian)
Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality.
Clearly sensing a turning-point in world opinion, as the death toll from starvation mounts exponentially in Gaza, Israel brought dozens of sympathetic journalists to a crossing to wage a PR campaign on Thursday.
The Israeli government has pivoted to a new deflection: The famine in Gaza is not the result of Israel’s publicly announced March 2 blockade of all food entering Gaza, nor is it connected to the Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which replaced the UNRWA aid system Israel shut down with its own militarized version in late May. Instead, according to the new Israeli campaign, the blame lies with the United Nations. “Hundreds of aid trucks have entered Gaza with Israel’s approval, but the supplies are standing idle, undelivered,” the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared on X. “The reason? The UN refuses to distribute the aid.”
The focal point of the Israeli accusation against the UN is a collection of some 900 aid trucks that have already crossed into Gaza but which have been unable to distribute the aid. Yet Israel has actively prevented the UN from distributing aid. Tamara Alrifai, a spokesperson for UNRWA, told Drop Site that Israeli restrictions on the movement of the organization’s staff have made distribution impossible. “Claiming that the UN isn’t picking up food and other urgent supplies, and promoting images that these goods are just sitting near the crossing is disingenuous to say the least,” she said.
Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality.
A man-made famine is imminent in Gaza and its people require at least 600 trucks a day to stave it off, as Israel deflects blame to the UN.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
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No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new armed private aid operation.
The analysis, which has not been previously reported, was conducted by a bureau within the US Agency for International Development and completed in late June. It examined 156 incidents of theft or loss of US-funded supplies reported by US aid partner organizations between October 2023 and this May.
It found “no reports alleging Hamas” benefited from US-funded supplies, according to a slide presentation of the findings.
A State Department spokesperson disputed the findings, saying there is video evidence of Hamas looting aid, but provided no such videos. The spokesperson also accused traditional humanitarian groups of covering up "aid corruption."
No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
An analysis conducted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found no evidence that Hamas systematically stole US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza, Reuters reported Friday.FRANCE 24
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China's High Energy Photon Source targets trial run by end of 2025
China's High Energy Photon Source targets trial run by end of 2025
The High Energy Photon Source, China's flagship synchrotron radiation facility, is set to begin trial operations by the end of 2025, according to the project team.CGTN
Starlink outage overnight affects Ukrainian military, prompts calls to diversify
Separately, Reuters reported that Elon Musk’s Starlink systems used by Ukrainian military units were down for two and a half hours overnight, a senior commander said, part of a global issue that disrupted the satellite internet provider.
Starlink experienced one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, the agency reported.
The commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, later said the incident had highlighted the risk of reliance on the systems, and called for communication and connectivity methods to be diversified.
Ukraine looks to secure funding for 10 Patriot air defence systems and discusses meeting with Putin – Europe live
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says country is trying to find sponsors for air systems and that negotiators discussed him meeting PutinJakub Krupa (The Guardian)
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Maybe drops open-source support - pivots to B2B data and scenario planning
The team behind Maybe just released version v0.6.0, and with it announced a major shift: the project is officially moving away from open-source development and pivoting to a B2B-focused model.
From now on, Maybe will focus on enterprise-grade data analysis and scenario planning tools for businesses. As a result, there will be no further updates, maintenance, or community support
This marks the end of Maybe as a public, code-based personal finance tool.
If you’ve been using it personally, v0.6.0 is the final release. You can keep using it as-is, but don’t expect updates.
Release v0.6.0 · maybe-finance/maybe
Farewell... Maybe 👋 TL;DR Maybe is pivoting to B2B financial forecasting and scenario planning and as a company, will no longer be actively maintaining this repository. What this means: This fina...GitHub
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The Electricity Affordability Crisis Is Coming
The Electricity Affordability Crisis Is Coming
For the first six months of President Trump’s term, the big question was about what would happen to the Inflation Reduction Act. We now have something like an answer.Robinson Meyer (Heatmap News)
AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine)
AI Won’t Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That’s Perfectly Fine)
Silicon Valley’s latest gospel sounds almost mystical. Artificial intelligence will rescue the West from demographic collapse, bloated welfare systems, and innovation-stifling regulations.Eli Grid (GazeOn)
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If y'all don't think this guys wasn't under surveillance the entire time....
At very min, counter intelligence monitors all of these regime whores. They just got extra hands on deck with a few political komissars helping the national security spooks
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James Comey was a huge fan of surveillance laws, and tried to get backdoors into encryption. Maybe now he appreciates the value of privacy more than he used to.
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Chinese team captures rare quantum friction effect in folded ultra-thin sheets of graphene
Pseudo-Landau levels splitting triggers quantum friction at folded graphene edge - Nature Communications
Understanding and controlling the quantum friction remain challenging. Here, the authors reveal pseudo-Landau levels splitting induced quantum friction at solid-solid interfaces via engineering the nanocurvature geometry of folded graphene edges.Nature
New dinosaur species identified in Liaoning
New dinosaur species identified in Liaoning
Chinese scientists have identified two new dinosaur species in Northeast China, shedding light on the evolution of small, feathered theropods and the remarkable diversity of the 125-million-year-old Jehol Biota.epaper.chinadaily.com.cn
US used 14% of its THAAD stockpile against Iran, a report says. It could take years to replenish.
US used 14% of its THAAD stockpile against Iran, a report says. It could take years to replenish.
It could take three to eight years for the U.S. to replenish its stockpile of high-altitude missile interceptors after the military launched nearly 14% of its arsenal during last month’s conflict with Iran, according to a new report by the Jewish Ins…Stars and Stripes
Confirmed: ChatGPT uses Google Snippets for its Answers [A Test with Proof]
Confirmed: ChatGPT uses Google SERP Snippets for its Answers [A Test with Proof]
I've run a simple but straight-forward to follow test that confirms the reliance of ChatGPT on Google SERPs snippets for its answers.Aleyda Solis (Aleyda Solis - International SEO Consultant, Founder, Author & Speaker)
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Yes and no. Even with after information and statements from Hamas which Jeremy Scahill has early access to, mainstream media refuses to publish statements from both sides.
Unless the IDF commits another massive crime and needs to spread blood libel about Palestinians of course. Only then "both sides" need to tell their story.
Israel ‘racing to wipe out Gaza, eliminate its people’: Heritage minister
Israel’s far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said Thursday that his government is “racing against time to wipe out Gaza and its Palestinian population,” adding that the territory will become “entirely Jewish.”
“The government is racing to wipe out Gaza. We are eliminating this evil. We are eliminating its residents,” Eliyahu told Israel’s Kol Barama radio.
“Gaza will become completely Jewish.”
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We started a new privacy podcast.
Hey, everyone. If you're looking for a fresh privacy podcast, we recently started a new one called Signal Jam.
Here's a bit about why we made Signal Jam and what we're hoping to do differently.
We even have preliminary ways for you to participate in the project, which you can read about here.
Feel free to connect with us on Proton, Tuta, Signal, or here on Lemmy. Looking forward to your feedback and thoughts!
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Hey, there— we're still open to it, but when we launch it depends on how much demand there is from the community. Realistically, we'll probably wait a few more episodes down the line before we start one. Out of curiosity, do you use Signal, Matrix, or other platforms you think we should consider?
-M
Totally respect the compartmentalization strategy. I'll chat with Jay about this... maybe we'll bump up the SimpleX timeline a bit.
We're trying to prioritize which platforms to start with since the project is so new. As we publish more content and resources, we're hoping they bring real value to the community, and in turn widen our audience. Once that happens, it would make more sense to open up more channels to accommodate more folks. One thing at a time 🙂
I only read the signal link you posted, but the first link inside it complains that the signal server needs to know a users ip and that could be used to connect people and users. Ip addresses are required to send data. Ip obfuscation is insanely out of scope for a messenger.
The second link complains about sealed sender not failing closed which is true (or was true at the time) but also a reasonable compromise to prevent abuse and avoid it constantly failing and requiring new expirable tokens.
These are not reasons to not use or even not recommend signal. A person who is taking recommendations to increase their privacy should not be worried about those concerns.
Removing oneself from public records (or taking greater control over what surfaces in public records about oneself) is infinitely more important than expecting ip obfuscation or sealed sender from signal.
I am not making this reply to start an argument and will not engage in one. The point is to help readers understand that your concerns about signal are esoteric.
more important than expecting ip obfuscation or sealed sender from signal
People are only expecting metadata protection (which is what "sealed sender", a term Signal themselves created, purports to do) because Signal dishonestly says they are providing it. The fact that they implemented this feature in their protocol is one of the reasons they should be distrusted.
For anyone reading along, that means people you send signal messages to can see your user account name maybe even if you click the button that’s supposed to make it not possible to do that.
Change your behavior accordingly.
No, it isn't about hiding your identity from the people you send messages to - it's about the server (and anyone with access to it) knowing who communicates with who, and when.
Michael Hayden (former director of both the NSA and CIA) famously acknowledged that they literally "kill people based on metadata"; from Snowden disclosures we know that they share this type of data with even 3rd-tier partner countries when it is politically beneficial.
Signal has long claimed that they don't record such metadata, but, since they outsource the keeping of their promises to Amazon, they decided they needed to make a stronger claim so they now claim that they can't record it because the sender is encrypted (so only the recipient knows who sent it). But, since they must know your IP anyway, from which you need to authenticate to receive messages, this is clearly security theater: Amazon (and any intelligence agency who can compel them, or compel an employee of theirs) can still trivially infer this metadata.
This would be less damaging if it was easy to have multiple Signal identities, but due to their insistence on requiring a phone number (which you no longer need to share with your contacts but must still share with the Amazon-hosted Signal server) most people have only one account which is strongly linked to many other facets of their online life.
Though few things make any attempt to protect metadata, anything without the phone number requirement is better than Signal. And Signal's dishonest incoherent-threat-model-having "sealed sender" is a gigantic red flag.
Video Clip of Former Director of NSA and CIA: “We Kill People Based on Metadata”
In a public debate with Just Security‘s David Cole at Johns Hopkins University, former Director of the NSA and CIA, General Michael Hayden made the provocative remark, “We Kill People Based on Metadata.” In a post on Saturday, David used Gen.Ryan Goodman (Just Security)
There’s a big difference between the metadata that the Snowden leaks are talking about and how they’re used and the metadata the signal server (or its subcontracted provider) has and how and under what conditions it’s able to be used.
The metadata that is the subject of the statement “we kill people based off metadata” is unencrypted cell phone signals and other broadly plaintext requests sent over a system that by design also includes location telemetry. That information could be easily obtained en masse through a man in the middle attack or through the lawful intercept backdoors built into the equipment that carries the information itself (which is less of a man in the middle attack and more of a man in the middle design).
This is different from the signal metadata both in form and content. The signal metadata is not vulnerable to a mitm attack and the agencies implicated in the Snowden leaks would have to actually go through the legal hoopla required in order to get just the metadata itself. Same as they would have to if they wanted the actual content.
Amazon does comply with law enforcement requests often without requiring a warrant, but the difference between requiring a request be made as opposed to simply being able to collect that metadata freely and package it as actionable intelligence is significant.
All messaging systems are vulnerable to this attack. If you send or receive a message then you, the other party and any intermediary like a server are subject to the laws of the places they’re physically located.
Again, I’m not arguing, I’m trying to make this very convoluted system clearer.
Hey, Arthur— thanks for dropping these links. Jay and I will look at these and consider your thought process, and might reach out to follow up, if that's okay! If I may ask, what do you prefer for email and RTC?
-M
For chat, something with e2ee and without phone numbers or centralized metadata. SimpleX, Matrix, XMPP, etc - each have their own problems, but at least they aren't centralizing everyone's metadata with a CIA contractor like Jeff Bezos like Signal is.
For email, I'd recommend finding small-to-medium-sized operators who seem both honest and competent. Anyone offering snakeoil privacy features such as browser-based e2ee is failing in at least one of those two categories.
We're considering moving up our timeline on a SimpleX and Matrix chat as we've received interest from others about that, too. Keep an eye on our website or show notes as we'll update those when new chat channels open up.
As for email, are there specific providers you recommend we look at?
-M
Matrix | Germany | Open source | Origins
Frustrated by a fragmented landscape of siloed communications tools, and an increasingly centralized web, Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape had a vision to create the missing communications layer of the open web.element.io
No Matrix was developed by Amdocs, an Israeli company. It has moved to Europe afterwards (I recall UK but might be wrong about that part)
Element is a Matrix client.
Humanity check causing app issues
I fired up Blorp this morning and not comments or new stories would load.
I also have Interstellar installed, so I tried that and I only got this message:
So I tried in my browser. I saw the humanity check ever so briefly, but then was moved along to the site. After that, I was able to refresh Interstellar and it worked. Blorp needed a restart, but looks okay now too.
Less a question than a report...
This bill would fine social media companies $5 million every day for not fighting 'terrorism'
New bill would fine social media companies $5 million every day for not fighting 'terrorism'
The STOP HATE Act wants social media platforms to report their moderation policies and outcomes to the government.Matthew Petti (Reason.com)
Chinese scientists break design ‘curse’ that killed US Navy’s drone programme
Chinese scientists break design ‘curse’ that killed US Navy’s X-47B drone programme
Research team says a revolutionary software design could provide ‘critical technical support’ for next-generation warplanes.Stephen Chen (South China Morning Post)
Open source (GPL 3) to alternative Adobe After Effects
Friction
Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video.friction.graphics
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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.Jake Buehler (Quanta Magazine)
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.Project Syndicate
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Lots of fluff in this article and the site itself sucks. Here's the key paragraph:
One way to achieve this would be to impose a levy on the gross revenues of the largest AI providers, collected by a national or multilateral agency. As the technology becomes increasingly embedded in daily life and production processes, the revenue flowing to AI firms is bound to grow – and so, too, will contributions to the fund. These resources could then be distributed by independent grant councils on multiyear cycles, ensuring that support reaches a wide range of disciplines and regions.
My biggest issue with this approach is that it fails to acknowledge that AI is a bubble currently propped up by venture capital. In 1-4 years all those investors are going to want their ROI, and AI companies are going to start turning the money crank hard.
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There's also no way to really tell what the "cost" of generative AI is on creative fields, or any way to determine who gets what money. There aren't going to be enough grants to cover every small, independent artist whose work is buried beneath mountains of AI slop
And like, the obvious issue is who is going to enforce this? Pretty much every government has been cozying up with the billionaire tech bros that run AI companies and will fight tooth and nail against any legislation like this proposal
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