Christian Kreutz

Andrea Endara: "Streaming algorithms now function as invisible geopolitics editors. Youth learn more international relations from TikTok than from school." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfcSRRQG6Mk

State bans are ultima ratio, not ideal policy. But Australia's data is striking: kids upgrade to real social contact instead of seeking workarounds. Even imperfect age verification shifts behavior massively. The real problem: platforms that consistently do too little.

The World Wide Web has reached a critical threshold. First, the open, decentralized web shifted toward platform-controlled silos, now increasingly mined to feed AI models. What remains of the web in ten years? Perhaps only private communities sharing human-only content?

YouTube is crafted video production. TikTok is everyone's spontaneous video diary. Two worlds apart—in content, creativity, misinformation. Yet fully surrendering to TikTok's entertainment-first algorithm redefines what it means to be a digital couch potato: quietly, willingly machine-controlled.

SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”

At least one good effect of this scandal. Ppl get more privacy aware & drop bigtech solutions. "SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its first months in power. But it's been great for Signal." cxd.li/pBrgcA

Another way to view the crisis of the West is through Life Long Learning and its investment, which are perceived quite differently in the Global South.

Working with KI chatbots meaningfully is the hardest challenge, especially when moving beyond simple queries toward true Human Enhancement. Current AI models fall short in enabling this deeper collaboration.

Why is user adoption of AI chatbots actually not that breathtaking? Tool fatigue & preference for search, disappointment with mediocre results & privacy concerns, lack of clear use cases beyond hype, and the need to learn new skills for experimentation and effective prompting. cxd.li/4M3eA9

Why is it so challenging for companies to make use of AI chatbots? First, it reverses traditional IT practices - from specialized tools with clear rules to one tool serving all purposes without rules. Second, most organizations are too risk-averse for the experimentation LLMs require. cxd.li/4M3eA9

Best way to cut through the AI hype? Ask what hasn't happened yet. Despite all the buzz, we still see almost no fine-tuned language models providing quality information about niche topics or local knowledge. Zero such services exist. Just an obsession with big models.

It is crucial to understand the vast differences in AI energy usage when using AI chatbots. For text generation tasks alone, energy consumption can differ easily up to 50 times between models. That's why smaller language models are becoming increasingly important. cxd.li/D2SO4C

AI Energy Score Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by AIEnergyScore

I love the new AI Energy Efficiency Score dashboard by Huggingface, because it rationalizes the AI energy consumption debate. It matters which Large Language Models you use - their energy consumption varies significantly.

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International digital strategy papers from countries/regions (e.g. Europe) need fundamental revision as US-EU digital policy cooperation fractures amid growing tech sovereignty debates.

Browsing through my reading list of strategy documents, I can skip many after recent developments. Digital development & foreign aid have changed dramatically with USAID's decline & UK FCDO's massive cuts.

Could US firm cybersecurity aid face similar pressure next? This goes beyond NATO; it’s about safeguarding Europe's digital infrastructure. Europe must accelerate projects toward digital independence. It’s not rocket science—all necessary open-source tools already exist.

US curtails Ukraine access to satellite imagery Maxar, a leading provider of commercial satellite imagery to Ukrainian users, says the Trump administration suspended access in Ukraine.

Small steps indicate profound change. Only an administrative request was enough to block Ukraine’s access to Maxar satellite data—crucial for military & open-source intelligence communities alike. cxd.li/N3510y

Despite the hype, AI adoption is still lagging. ChatGPT's 400 million users in 2 years sounds less impressive when you consider Google Drive had 3 billion users in 2021. What's holding AI back? My analysis here: cxd.li/4M3eA9

Löst sich doch bald von selbst. Wir werden im großen Stil US Tech boykottieren. Kann doch keine Verwaltung akzeptieren, dass die Russen überall mitlesen.

Statistical Sovereignty, Democracy and Big Tech: Challenges of Datafication for National States The word statistics means ‘science of the state’. This etymological origin is not fortuitous. Under the nation state, the concept of sovereignty acqu...

Big Data is increasingly replacing official statistics. Combining these two worlds could be valuable - if platforms would share data, which they mostly don't. But that's not the only challenge: Big Data can often be non-representative compared to carefully gathered official statistics. cxd.li/9kA3W6

Can blending AI and human input amplify creativity? By combining multiple AI brainstorming sessions, a single person can gather a trove of ideas. Yet with current large language models, it's still hard work to achieve genuine results. cxd.li/k8oGDs

Recent events have made it crystal clear: Europe needs its own digital public infrastructure, independent from US tech giants. We must reclaim control of our digital public sphere, e-government systems, and critical platforms. The time for digital European sovereignty is now.

Hiring is becoming an AI vs AI game: companies deploy automated interviews while job seekers develop AI tools to beat them. We're drifting toward a future where machines unknowingly talk to other machines in recruiting. Check out this hilarious technical test cheating tool! www.interviewcoder.co/

It is hilarious! The Stargate PR stunt of supposedly investing $500 billion in AI by Altman and Trump was crushed by Chinese Deepseek's shock revelation that good models can cost just a fraction of that cost.

Funny, for many years, most of my time programming was spent debugging code. Now, I have to deal with a black box machine and find ways to see if the code makes sense. Well-functioning code does not mean it is free of various flaws.

Improvisation skills are crucial in complex environments—something Western countries often lack. Take a German street crossing with broken traffic lights. Chaos often ensues as Germans struggle to improvise. Improvisation: A skill increasingly vital for the future.

The Dual Role of Robots in Enhancing elderly Care in Japan: Ethnographic observations evidence finds in cases even more work for care workers through robots. A statistical analysis tells a different tale. Why am I not surprised? cxd.li/QKwJwX

Will research papers become obsolete? According to The Economist, 10% of all research paper abstracts are now created with AI assistance. Imagine if results could be rewritten for every audience, from experts to kids. cxd.li/Yo4XbP

The 50 Mbps threshold is sufficient: The push for faster internet speeds is largely unnecessary for private households and primarily driven by telecom marketing. 50 Mbps easily covers most family needs. cxd.li/ydWvrV

I wonder about the ratio of people writing AI policy papers versus those actually building meaningful AI applications. I bet the numbers are surprisingly close.