Graphic artist, M.Des. — Art direction. Publication design. Teaching. Research on mandatory positivity and its effect on the press, architecture media, and smart cities. Invited to Harvard, McGill, and UQAM.
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What’s funny about Adder’s illustration is that fantastical flattery is also happening. Carney’s minister of Canada-US trade Dominic Leblanc is at Eurasia Group’s US–Canada Summit saying things like: “President Trump is an experienced negotiator. He has a style that's unique to a category of one.”
The Carney government’s “AI for All” proposal did not include news publishers. It didn't mention copyright once, and didn’t identify or address problems like “AI” training copyright theft or Google Zero.
What’s striking about the Carney government’s “AI for All” proposal is that it’s light on governance details, copyright protections, privacy and safety provisions. Bill C-34 seeks to address platform duties to act responsibly but the commission that would enforce it doesn’t yet exist.
Here is a decent primer on Google Zero from @thelogic.co's founder @dskok.bsky.social:
Fréchette dément toute implication.
It’s the same with Carney’s “AI for All” strategy that is not really a strategy: it didn’t identify any real problems to solve.
The only “problem” is that Canadians aren’t using “AI” enough. That’s why the National AI Literacy Initiative was proposed: to educate or cure Canadians of that problem.
Checking in on Eurasia Group’s US-Canada Summit ...
Positivity is not the problem, it’s the “mandatory” part. Those who are mandatorily positive about American circular “AI” investment are Trump’s American tech advisors, and those who are mandatorily positive about Carney’s “AI for All” plan are Carney’s Canadian tech advisors.
Le drame de Northvolt continue.
“‘Maybe this is just the end,’ ChatGPT told her, according to the lawsuit.”
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Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.”
The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
AI has upended how the web works, and search traffic is plummeting. In a world of content scraping bots and ‘Google Zero,’ journalism needs a new plan.
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Michael de Adder
Canada is going hard on AI while trying to build real accountability for AI companies. Does Mark Carney have the stomach to take on the Trump-aligned Big Tech firms? www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling
The Carney government's AI strategy seems to encompass every conceivable problem and outline every conceivable solution to each.
Un fonctionnaire a été congédié après avoir dénoncé aux médias et à la vérificatrice générale du Québec les investissements risqués dans la filière batterie.
ici.radio-canada.ca
The UK's CMA just forced Google to let news publishers opt out of AI Overviews without vanishing from Search. Martha Dark of tech justice nonprofit Foxglove argues this is a landmark win — and a blueprint regulators in the EU, Brazil and beyond should follow next.
The commissioner specifically says “users…created and shared sexualised images of women and children”
Yet all the reporting removes the agency of the men committing crimes, and assigns it to the technology instead
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After launching an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X, Canada's privacy commissioner says Grok's AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safe...
