Vedran Sekara

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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

return output.replace(—,-)

Could have saved openAI millions of dollars 🤷

I fully agree with @emilymbender.bsky.social here 👇 E.g. what Mistral's CEO recently proposed to the EU parliament, trickle down responsibility won't work. We need accountability from all model makers!

"Federal policy has jumped the gun: We don’t yet know if AI will transform the economy or even be profitable. Yet Washington is insulating the industry from all sorts of risk. If a bubble does pop, we’ll all be left holding the bag." [Gift Link] www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

It has begun 😱

I'm stunned to read such bullshit.
Can you by any chance share the link to this document/paper?

..."innovate" without infringing copyright laws, privacy, human rights, etc. then to hell with these "innovations".

Call me a reactionary but I believe we as a society should not accept our data being exploited and incorporated into AI models without our consent.

...approach is not viable for the EU. It will increase inequality, concentrate power, and reduce competition. All of these are bad for innovation 🙃

What the GDPR does is set a mission/stage for where innovation should take place (i.e. not by exploiting user data). If AI developers can't...

The GDPR is protecting EU individuals' data from being exploited and sold to highest bidder.

We seriously need to have a conversation of what "innovation" is, and should be, especially around AI. I would argue that removing regulations to exploit users is not a step forward. A US inspired...

Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.

I can't believe I'm reading this. The EU is about to slash some of its privacy laws to help AI developers!

Help them with what? Surveillance capitalism! To exploit EU citizens!

Sorry to say it, but Draghi is wrong! GDPR is not holding back EU innovation on AI

www.politico.eu/article/brus...

early career scholar and their first publication

Måske, men jeg tror ikke denne lov kommer til at fungere da der er mange smuthuller. Fx kan børn skifte til andre platforme hvor aldersverifikation ikke er implementeret. Dette kommer til at skubbe mange over til mere 'usikre' platforme, hvor der er endnu mindre kontrol.

Hvis sociale medier er skadelige for børn er de så ikke også det for andre aldersgrupper?

I Kina regulerer de hvilket indhold algoritmerne må anbefale og hvor meget "lærerigt indhold" der skal være i folks feeds Hvorfor snakker vi ikke om noget lignende?

Flere organisationer roser aftale om alderskrav på sociale medier Dog møder det kritik, at forældre kan give lov til, at deres børn fra 13 år kan få adgang.

Det er utroligt at det eneste vores politikere + interesseorganisationer fokuserer på er at begrænse adgang til sociale medier, i stedet for at kræve at de er sikre at bruge.

Hvorfor er vi så fokuseret på adgang og ikke indhold? Hvorfor er vi så uambitiøse?

#dkpol

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

what exactly is "winning the AI race? environmental destruction, labor extraction, ever more intrusive surveillance, mass manipulation, and unprecedented power for the handful???

I just got 3.1 mil DKK, so if you are interested in uncovering how climate change 🏭☁️⛅⛈️🌊🌪️🌬️ affects our movement patterns and mobility related behaviors, then I will be opening a PhD position later this year

Small multiples plot of different street networks simplified with various algorithms

Left: Edge activations for the set of influencers identified by CHD. Edges are colored and sized according to how often they are activated during simulations. Nodes colored black are seed nodes. Right: Edge activations for one of the fairer seed sets identified by our algorithm.

Two new NERDS papers: Algorithmic bias, street network simplification
nerds.itu.dk/2025/11/03/t...

I think you tagged the wrong Vedran 😅 but thanks @lrossi.bsky.social

Detecting bias in algorithms used to disseminate information in social networks and mitigating it using multiobjective optimization Abstract. Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who a

How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality.

🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There’s no ‘patch’ for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.” — @michaelemann.bsky.social

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

This is why python > R 😉

Great to see the Python Software Foundation display more integrity and courage than countless others...

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln Abstract This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.

New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Fantastic opportunity 👇

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Are you considering using Chatbots and ChatGPT to tell you who to vote for?

Ask yourself: would you use a headless chicken to pick who to vote for? No? Then don't use LLMs either!!

They will provide biased answers!

Imagine what other things the $2.66 billion could have been spent on.

Rather than wasting it on GAI, imagine if these funds were spent on academic grants, PhD students, postdocs, researchers

Imagine the ROI this could bring about for society (rather than accelerating climate change)

I spoke to @mjgault.bsky.social in WIRED on what I ultimately view as safety theatre for "nuclear safeguarding" and how it distracts from the real risk of unregulated private corporations having access incredibly sensitive nuclear secrets given their insecure AI models.