LK Seiling

This newsletter does not focus on the ongoing sabre-rattling from across the Atlantic. Instead, we recap all the work we've been doing since the last issue and examples and opportunities for constructive collective engagement around the DSA.
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Register to the #DSA40 Data Access days today before we reach maximum capacity!
Join us in Berlin, September 25 & 26 - to connect and collaborate around DSA-based data access!
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Was passiert eigentlich, wenn wir uns alle einig werden, dass das, was gerade weltweit grassiert und demokratische Errungenschaften sowie große Teile der Menschheit bedroht, Faschismus ist? Geht dann der antifaschistische Kampf los? Oder ist er dann schon gewonnen?

War crimes as a form of marketing

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The U.S. administration is going all in on its AI death cult. It's side-lining the environment and it's own citizens to scale the build out of an over-leveraged technology, while aggressively pushing their technology onto other countries trying to distribute collapse-risk.

Or as I put it in a talk last year:
This is not tech adoption, it is penetration - decidedly masculine, neither consensual nor reflected and it leaves us and our planet injured, if not violated.

f we don't resist, we're - most literally - fucked.

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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss Das letzte Puzzlestück für den Forschungszugang für nicht öffentlich verfügbare Plattformdaten ist da. Die Aufgaben für DSCs, Forschende und Plattformen sind nun klar verteilt. Die Wissenschaftler:inn...

„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” –
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:

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Meta rebuffs EU over AI rules The code of practice has faced months of fierce lobbying from the tech industry.

Meta just blew a hole in a EU plan to tame artificial intelligence models.

Today, the technology giant was the first Big Tech company to come out saying it will not sign the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI.

Time To Deliver: Stakeholder Roles In The EU’s Delegated Act On Data Access | TechPolicy.Press The Delegated Act on data access under the DSA provides much-needed clarity about both the access process and expectations towards the actors involved in it.

The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.

Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.

W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social

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Alternative wäre natürlich, jetzt in Masse über das SBGG die Streichung des Geschlechtseintrags vorzunehmen. So ließen sich vulnerable Gruppen schützen und zugleich Binaritätsnormen unterwandern. Nur leider scheinbar undenkbar.

Die Rückkehr der "Transvestiten-Karteien" muss verhindert werden Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern...

Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern brandgefährlich

In this piece for Tech Policy Press, @dscheykopp.bsky.social , @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social and I argue that it's time for regulators, researchers, and platforms to fulfil their roles and standards set by the delegated act on data access.

Unpacking the EU’s Digital Services Act Delegated Regulation on Data Access | TechPolicy.Press Over two years after the DSA’s adoption, the delegated act on data access brings hope for researchers, though concerns persist, writes Jacob van de Kerkhof.

Last week, the EU adopted rules on data access under the DSA. The Delegated Act clarifies key procedures, but questions remain around what data will be available, how it will be protected, and how requests will be prioritized, writes Jacob van de Kerkhof.

I've complied a legible overview of the differences between the draft and the adopted delegated act on data access.
The rendered html is on our website, the source code and data on github.
Hope it's helpful 🙏🏻

Let me know if you find any errors so I can correct the underlying data table!

Can X block data access for researchers? We went to court to find out👇🏽

Join DRI, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, and top experts on Thursday, July 10 at 15:00 CEST to unpack the first national court ruling on data access under Art. 40 (12) DSA.

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Data Access Days – DSA 40 Collaboratory

I also almost forgot to mention the DSA40 Data Access Days @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social and @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social are hosting in Berlin, Sept 25–26. Join us there to dive deeper and collaborate on data access!
More info & registration here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...

3) data catalogues have to be updated to account for changing risks - further evidence to the point that the regulator understands the Art. 34(1) systemic risks as minimal examples and not exhaustive.

2) even if VLOPSES request mediation, the DSCs do not have to engage and if the mediation is unsuccessful, the request stays valid

1) researchers' research questions are not disclosed to data providers - only the topic they are working on - making it harder for the platforms to potentially tamper with the data

@ec.europa.eu published the delegated act on data access yesterday. In this 🧵, we give a quick overview of key aspects for researchers to take note of.
Find my personal top3 highlights in the comments below and stay tuned for a more in-depth analysis coming soon!

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

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Felix Gaisbauer presenting first insights into political content suggested too and seen by actual German users around the German election earlier this year. Debunking assumptions of asymmetrical algorithmic curation on #tiktok in recent years. #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Returning from second visit as @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Fellow.

What a privilege to spend time with @dscheykopp.bsky.social’s group and the inspiring and friendly WI community (including the Berlin ‘staffel run’) 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🇩🇪

Honoured to deliver the Weizenbaum conference #WIConf2025 keynote 🎙️

How or why does #political content spread on #TikTok? Is there a large supply by political actors, is there a high demand by users for political content or is that content preferred by the platform algorithms? Weizenbaum researcher Felix Gaisbauer takes the issue apart at #WIConf2025

Platforms need to be researched on the risks they pose to society, like our civic discourse or our mental health. But the relationships between researchers, platforms and regulators are complicated. @lkseiling.bsky.social presenting their work on the #DSA at #WIConf2025

new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value

Like people should also be allowed to exist for free