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• 🇧🇪 Belgisch onderzoek: app voor huidkankerdetectie mist plekken en slaat vals alarm  [1]

• 🗺️ AI's van Google en Microsoft nemen informatie over van Musks Wikipedia-kloon  [6]

  Gemini, Copilot & OpenAI LLM's include data from Elon Musk's ai-generated "anti-woke" Grokipedia

• 🇳🇱 Algoritme reclassering berekende herhalingsrisico criminelen jarenlang verkeerd  [15]

• 🗺️ Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data  [18]

  Amazon keeps finding unprecedented amounts of CSAM in their AI training data but refuses to share any information on how it got there

• 🗺️ Chatbots verspreiden verkeerde nieuwsinformatie, zelfs uit juiste artikelen  [20]

• 🗺️ Can't Trust Chatbots Yet: Reddit's AI Was Caught Suggesting Heroin for Pain Relief  [21]

• 🇺🇸 A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In  [24]

  ChatGPT helped spur on a 16-year old to kill himself, to the point of approving a picture of the kid's noose

• 🇺🇸 Burger King test controle beleefdheid medewerkers in VS met AI-assistent Patty  [2]

• 🇧🇪 Proximus wil 1200 banen schrappen en deels vervangen door AI  [3]

• 🇳🇱 Stroomnet in Flevoland, Gelderland en Utrecht zit overvol, aansluitstop dreigt  [5]

• 🇺🇸🗺️ Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military  [8]

• 🇳🇱 This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life  [9]

  Things that increase the chance of being marked for investigation by Rotterdam's welfare fraud detection algorithm:

  • Being a woman
  • Living outside of the center of the city
  • Having your child sell a video game on a second hand site
  • Being a parent
  • Being young
  • Struggling to find work
  • Not being fluent in Dutch
  • Being divorced
  • Being from certain zip codes
  • Having a history with depression
  • Been assessed by social workers

• 🇳🇱 Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms   [11]

  The Dutch tax authority used an algorithm to detect childcare fraud. It "focused on people with non-western appearances". They secretly held blacklists. Risk profile increasers include:

  • Dual nationality
  • Having a low income
  • Specifically being Turkish or Moroccan

  This article includes many links towards relevant information:

  • Internal government findings and meetings
  • The Amnesty International report on the Dutch tax authorities' xenophobic profiling
  • The Dutch government agency AVG fining the tax authority

• 🇳🇱 Ruim 1.100 kinderen van gedupeerden toeslagenaffaire werden uit huis geplaatst  [12]

  Over 1000 children have been taken from their homes - some for multiple years - due to the consequences of the child care fraud detection algorithm being wrong

• 🇳🇱 Inside the Suspicion Machine  [13]

  An in-depth examination of the discriminatory Dutch welfare fraud detection algorithm

• 🇳🇱 Algoritme reclassering berekende herhalingsrisico criminelen jarenlang verkeerd  [15]

• 🗺️ Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data  [18]

  Amazon keeps finding unprecedented amounts of CSAM in their AI training data but refuses to share any information on how it got there

• 🗺️ Can't Trust Chatbots Yet: Reddit's AI Was Caught Suggesting Heroin for Pain Relief  [21]

• 🇺🇸 A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In  [24]

  ChatGPT helped spur on a 16-year old to kill himself, to the point of approving a picture of the kid's noose

• 🇺🇸 Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets  [25]

  In December 2024, the largest grid operator's capacity market went from 30 USD to 270 USD (x9 increase) MW-day

  With the current trajectory of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, greenhouse gas emissions are set to increase by 30%

• 🇳🇱 Nederlandse supermarkten lieten big tech weten dat je zwangerschapstest koopt  [4]

• 🗺️ How Amazon’s Latest Initiatives Skip Consent  [19]

  Amazon uses AI to forcefully scrape other websites for shop information and presents found items as items within Amazon. When you check out using this, Amazon will "handle the checkout for you": keeping your information in their own databases and using it for marketing purposes

• 🇳🇱 Stroomnet in Flevoland, Gelderland en Utrecht zit overvol, aansluitstop dreigt  [5]

• 🇳🇱 Gemeente Lelystad werd onjuist geïnformeerd: datacenter verbruikt meer dan stad  [14]

• 🗺️🇺🇸 Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined  [22]

  When talking about only 1 of the datacenters: "as one expert put it, it’s close to the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined."

• 🇺🇸 Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets  [25]

  In December 2024, the largest grid operator's capacity market went from 30 USD to 270 USD (x9 increase) MW-day

  With the current trajectory of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, greenhouse gas emissions are set to increase by 30%

• 🇦🇺 Calls for guidelines after Greater Western Water documents reveal potential data centre water usage  [27]

  19 data centers in Melbourne are assessed to use 20 gigaliters (20,000,000,000 liter) per year, the same as 330,000 people

• 🇦🇺 Power-hungry data centres scrambling to find enough electricity to meet demand  [28]

  "Just one large data centre can consume the same amount of energy required to power 50,000 homes"

  It is estimated that 5% of Australia's power grid is used by data centers

• 🇺🇸 AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems  [29]

  • Meta's Newton datacenter uses 500,000 gallons (a bit over 1,892,705 liters) per day, 10% of Newton County's total daily water use
  • One datacenter in Georgia uses 9,000,000 gallons (34,068,706 liters) per day, the equivalent of 30,000 households

• 🇳🇱 Politie blijft onschuldige burgers volgen, ombudsman eist verandering  [7]

• 🇧🇪 11-year-old boy dies following police chase in Brussels  [10]

• 🇳🇱 Tien Nederlandse gemeenten volgden moslims onterecht en krijgen AVG-boetes  [17]

• 🗺️ It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines  [16]

• 🇳🇱 Tien Nederlandse gemeenten volgden moslims onterecht en krijgen AVG-boetes  [17]

• 🗺️ Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data  [18]

  Amazon keeps finding unprecedented amounts of CSAM in their AI training data but refuses to share any information on how it got there

• 🗺️ How Amazon’s Latest Initiatives Skip Consent  [19]

  Amazon uses AI to forcefully scrape other websites for shop information and presents found items as items within Amazon. When you check out using this, Amazon will "handle the checkout for you": keeping your information in their own databases and using it for marketing purposes

• 🇺🇸 Google treft schikking in VS om dataverzameling van jonge YouTube-kijkers  [26]

  Google got sued for collecting information from children. As the article mentions, Google already got sued for collecting nformation from children in 2017

• 🇦🇺 Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will  [23]

  A brain implant that helped with life-ruining epileptic seizures was forcefully removed from a woman's brain after the company shut down

• 🇺🇸 Google treft schikking in VS om dataverzameling van jonge YouTube-kijkers  [26]

  Google got sued for collecting information from children. As the article mentions, Google already got sued for collecting nformation from children in 2017