Europe, the AI Continent.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@EUCommission The AI boom is based on a big lie designed to steal money without delivering anything useful. You are being defrauded by the American tech sector.

[koalie@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission please, pretty please, in the spirit of “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”, please aim to sabotage it so that we can focus on meaningful things instead of destructive and unethical things. Thank you

[odd@mstdn.social]

@hembrow fully agree. I was going to say that I'm happy there doesn't seem to be a lot of budget earmarked for this, but billions are being pushed into the hype:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/ai-continent-action-plan

Let's hope those to be raised from the private sector but even then, the slashing of regulations is damaging all by itself.
@EUCommission

[janeishly@beige.party]

@EUCommission No, seriously. Take a stand on this nonsense. It's built on stolen work and hidden labour, it's burning up our already scarce resources at a terrifying rate, it's really really bad for people's brains and even if it worked (which it doesn't) it would put billions of people out of work in a really short timescale. Who's going to pay taxes then? How does society cope when you wipe out the incomes of a huge tranche of its working population and give them... nothing in return?

We don't need this stuff, and we're certainly not ready for it, even IF it worked.

[vistor@mastodon.theserver.se]

@EUCommission Don't. And please stop wasting our money on this.

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@EUCommission

Imagine what you could have done if you had ignored a hype wave pushed by grifters and scammers and instead invested that money in things that will actually improve the economy and social wellbeing.

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@cstross @EUCommission

Our lived experiences differ. I run out of compute virtually every day in my work.
You will not find the tech useful if you do not use it.
Do you think there is a correlation there?

The Euros are working towards sovereign #Ai future

[angelascholder@mastodon.energy]

@EUCommission Curious to hear how building our digital sovereignty from American BigTech is going!

Turning off all Big Tech solutions being used by all governments and vital infrastructure in Europe would have us descend into total chaos!

However, the EU Commission is apparently more concerned with FOMO in missing the race to the abyss with AI slop!

[axeln@norden.social]

@EUCommission Please do actual AI and not the LLM hallucination bullshit, please.

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission If by AI you mean LLMs, you’re pouring a lot of resources into a flawed, environmentally, and socially disastrous, technology.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@troed @EUCommission maybe go learn what democracy is, you clearly skipped that lesson in school

[susan_calvin@mastodon.social]

@cstross @EUCommission this is more the SAP/Siemens/Philips axis

[salemslot@mastodon.social]

@n_dimension @cstross @EUCommission If you have to resort to nuclear and fossile energy sources to power an ineffective technology you never become souvereign. You just switch chains to new middle men before the same externalities rule you again.

[geoffl@mastodon.me.uk]

@EUCommission

Oh, FFS! Not more of this nonsense.

[geoffl@mastodon.me.uk]

@EUCommission

I've got an AI bridge to sell. You interested?

[anantagd@ieji.de]

@EUCommission @i Haha No.

[girlinblack@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission Generative AI is a scam and I only hope the bubble bursts before you can sink more money into this bullshit.

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@SalemsLot @n_dimension @cstross @EUCommission
Time to start calling people who prioritize power-hungry LLMs over actual human beings and hand-made art "watt supremacists."

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@linuxandyarn @SalemsLot @cstross @EUCommission

Welcome to the 21st century

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission And you're saying this as if it's a GOOD thing?