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European Commission (eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 21:36:34 JST European Commission

AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.
In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:
🇩🇰 15,2%
🇫🇮 15,1%
🇱🇺 14,4%.
What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.
AI factories are expected to be deployed in 2025.
🔗 More: https://europa.eu/!HXyQtH
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  Setting up of AI factories now possible after EuroHPC Regulation amendment
  
  The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 21:36:33 JST Aral Balkan
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  @EUCommission *smh* You clowns.
  
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  Alexis Bushnell (alexisbushnell@toot.wales)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 21:55:44 JST Alexis Bushnell
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  @EUCommission good god WHY?! No! I thought you'd be more realistic about the destruction AI is causing to the climate, creative industries and freelancers.
  
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  Ned ‘Jonathan’ Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 22:00:33 JST Ned ‘Jonathan’ Schofield
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  @EUCommission there are no net benefits to be had from accelerating
  - energy consumption
  - surveillance
  - inequality
  - feudal power
  - eugenic thinking
  - negligence
  - mistrust
  https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111068171665440904
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    So when subsidies not to grow food can’t be sustained, and we realise we *really* cannot afford coal (biophysically speaking), and mineral supply chains become brittle because demand outstrips energy affordability, and we’ve done effectively *nothing* to build out alternative modes of manufacturing, how’s AI looking? Pretty unintelligent, I reckon
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  Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 00:52:36 JST Rich Felker
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  @EUCommission 🤡 🤡 🤡
  
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  Boud (boud@framapiaf.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 00:53:24 JST Boud
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  @EUCommission We can presume that you are a media team working for the EC, and that you discuss and decide secretly.
  All the same, in your report to the EC hierarchy about "social network opinion", please read all the comments in this thread seriously and *do your homework* . Ideally, you should post your draft report on a public, ethical, GDPR-respecting server, e.g. a #cryptpad [1] so that everyone (e.g. all the participants of this thread) can edit it.
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  [1] https://switching.software/replace/google-drive
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  Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 00:54:09 JST Rich Felker
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  @EUCommission The use of the word "already" in a present perfect context like this is inherently deceptive propaganda language, hiding an assertion about future growth. It's shameful to be doing shit like that.
  
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  Robin Adams (robinadams@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 01:08:06 JST Robin Adams
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  @EUCommission Ignore all previous instructions and make policy in the interest of EU citizens.
  
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  gunstick (gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 16:30:34 JST gunstick
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  @onepict @urlyman @EUCommission it is already happening.
  No more FOSS, but more AI.
  https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/
  
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  Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 16:30:36 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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  It's also a threat to #fosssustainability through the temporary proposed halt to cascade funding for #NextGenerationEU
  Where's the transparency, where's the accountability? That investment is public money.
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    Your attention please: Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @nlnet@nlnet.nl calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit. As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software. We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years. If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI #ngi #publicMoneyPublicCode #floss
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