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algowatching

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Reporter at AlgorithmWatch.

Posts here about the automation of society in Europe, such as predictive policing, automated moderation on social networks, robots in public administration etc.

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algowatching, to random
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(from the neighbors' Signal group)

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day 05 03 Jun 2024 - Vilnius - Warszawa, onto night train

Crossing these borders:
Road border 🇱🇹 🇵🇱
Zebrzydowice 🇵🇱 - Bohumín 🇨🇿

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

algowatching,
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@jon any reason other than timetables why you're not taking the train here? (Asking bc we're planning to take that Warsaw-Vilnius service soon)

christianschwaegerl, (edited ) to random German
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Kleine Teiche tun Städten gut. Sie kühlen bei Hitze ihre Umgebung, nehmen Regenwasser auf, bieten Tieren ein Zuhause - und können schön anzuschauen sein. Zu einer gehören Kleingewässer als „blau-grüne Infrastruktur“ dazu. Doch in sind die meisten der 400 Kleingewässern in schlechtem Zustand. Viele trocknen aus, verlanden, sind vermüllt oder von Bauprojekten bedroht. Dabei geht es auch anders. Mehr in meiner Reportage bei @riffreporter
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/schwammstadt-berlin-regenwasser-klimawandel-anpassung

algowatching,
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@christianschwaegerl @riffreporter Kann man eigentlich schätzen, was passieren wird, wenn wir in Berlin einen Dengue-Ausbruch haben? (zB anhand was in Norditalien passiert?) Ich nehme an, unsere klugen und weisen Politiker*innen werden sofort alles trocknen wollen, aber vlt haben sie schon dafür einen Plan?

algowatching, to random
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🚆 I've just been sent this screenshot from the DB Navigator, showing a 3-hour delay in Berlin, even though the train was on time.

The personnel on board told passengers to ignore the delay, saying that it was "an error from the AI". (But emails offering compensation were sent).

Do you train nerds know about this DB system to predict delays? And why it fails so often that DB employees learned to ignore it?

cc @jon

algowatching,
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@jon Thanks. The hypothesis that people now say "it's the fault of the AI" in lieu of "it's the fault of the computer" should probably not be discarded.

ErikJonker, to ai Dutch
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For all AI sceptics:
ECG-AI alert in 16,000 hospitalized patients
31% reduction of mortality (absolute 7 per 100 patients) in pre-specified high-risk group
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02961-4

algowatching,
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@ErikJonker did you read the full paper (i don't have access)? But it looks like,in the treatment group, doctors recieved a text message with the findings of the AI, whereas the control didn't. How can the authors rule out that the difference in outcomes doesn't come from the extra medical attention?

algowatching, to random
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🇪🇸 Instagram shut down the account of major Spanish journalist Cristina Fallarás. The reason given was "inappropriate content", but she suspects a campaign of mass reports.

https://efe.com/espana/2024-03-01/cristina-fallaras-instagram-violencia-sexual/

debcha, to random
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I've been thinking about 'negativity bias' (that you can appear smart by being critical) and I just learned about the "Cynical Genius Illusion': https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/trust-games/202111/the-myth-the-cynical-genius

"Research suggests that trust, rather than cynicism, is a sign of intelligence. Most people inaccurately believe that cynics are smarter than those who trust in others. This means that perhaps you should trust in people, but not let them know how much you trust them."

Yeah no -- I'm going to be LOUD about trusting in people.

algowatching,
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@debcha I've read your link (but not the papers given in reference) - is it possible that gender explains most of the variation in cynicism and perceived intelligence? (e.g. do men perform cynicism more to fit gender expectations? Or: are women cynics also perceived as more intelligent?)

algowatching, to random
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The boss of the Republican party made clear that only people that pay him will receive protection, and that those who don't will be destroyed. This is not fascism we're seeing, it's the mafia state.

Here's what I wrote 5 years ago on the topic and I still stand by every word https://blog.nkb.fr/mafia-state/

algowatching, to random
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:twitter: If you needed another proof of the irrelevance of that former website: Yesterday, @correctiv_org published a bombshell investigation. Within hours, it was headline news in Germany and in Europe. Apart for the odd journalist (who got 49 likes), they didn't tweet about it (Correctiv stopped tweeting in Nov).

algowatching, to random
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Someone on LinkedIn just pitched me this new "AI fact-checker". Works as intended.

algowatching, to random
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Government, after setting up complete surveillance system, gracefully concedes surveillance-free moments for subjects to peacefully express their thoughts.

algowatching, to random
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🇦🇹 Austria published a mammoth €50m tender for AI in social services.

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:783769-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML

Must be read together with @danmcquillan 's essay "AI as algorithmic Thatcherism" https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

algowatching, to random
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🇦🇷 Argentina's new, neofascist government promises to cut social benefits to people who take to the streets in planned demonstrations tomorrow.

They'll use face recognition for the task, including the system set up to look for missing persons (you know, the one allowed in the EU by the )

https://www.clarin.com/policiales/marcha-piquetera-recorte-planes-funciona-sistema-reconocimiento-facial_0_22Xt18FKba.html

jon, to random
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It nags at me when people say "why can't Berlin just do as Paris does with parking and cycling policy?”

The answer - in large part - is Anne Hidalgo has some power to act in Ville de Paris, the inner city, where only 1/5 of the urban population live. No one has power to act in inner Berlin, only for the whole Land - and that's harder

Mapped and explained here: https://jonworth.eu/why-berlin-cant-just-do-as-paris-does-on-cycling-and-parking-policy/

algowatching,
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@jon on a slightly different topic, one could add that cycling in the outer city in Paris is often worse than cycling outside the Ringbahn in Berlin.

algowatching, to random
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🇪🇺 The has been agreed upon (in secret, last night). The text is not public yet, only the PR spin.

But it's already clear that blanket face recognition is coming for us, Europeans, too, as it's allowed for "specific and present terrorist threat" which is police-speak for demonstrating peacefully or hearing something in Arabic.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231206IPR15699/artificial-intelligence-act-deal-on-comprehensive-rules-for-trustworthy-ai

algowatching, to random
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📬 For today's issue of Automated Society, I talked to @felix about how algorithmic policing always seems to be legalized after the fact. It's bad, he said, but it's also not specific to algorithmic policing.

https://r.algorithmwatch.org/nl3/4AruFKZWLoqQiFpRoBbDCw

algowatching, to random
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🇩🇪 In February, Germany's highest court ruled the use of Palantir software by the police illegal.

In March, Bavaria doubled down and started using a new Palantir tool.

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/br-recherche/palantir-software-polizei-100.html

Watching the rule of law crumble in real time...

algowatching, to random
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🇫🇷 The French welfare agency uses an algorithm to detect potential fraudsters. Every month, it ranks the households of 32 million people, including 13 million children, with a "risk score".

For the first time, @LaQuadrature obtained its source code and could run it.

The criteria that increase the risk score are

  • being poor,
  • living in a poor neighborhood,
  • being a single mother,
  • being unemployed,
  • having a disability.

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/11/27/notation-des-allocataires-lindecence-des-pratiques-de-la-caf-desormais-indeniable/

algowatching, to random
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The slogans from 1989 are uncannily current.

"Better always exhausted than always under surveillance" (Industriemuseum Chemnitz).

jon, to random German
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Ich sitze im Zug Richtung der Grünen. Und ich bin total leer.

Der Rechtsextremist Wilders führt in den Niederlanden. Und in Deutschland ist die AfD in Umfragen zweitstärkste Kraft.

Meine Politik - praktische Lösungen für Eisenbahnprobleme - fühlt sich angesichts des Ausmaßes dieser Welle, die uns trifft, unangemessen an.

algowatching,
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@jon I tend to think of my work as giving ideas to the generation who will rebuild once the current wave of fascism is over. They'll certainly need a few on how to run pan-European public transport.

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🧵 1 In these times, we often read about . Numbers can set . It is important to your ! And it's helpful to add your sources to your posts, so others can verify easier. Even if they are official, a Chinese newspaper works different than an UK one, a US TV channel different to a EU one.

From the journalistic box of knowledge: The more conflict, the more difficult to check numbers independently. We have to say: We got this number from X but can't check the truth.

algowatching,
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@NatureMC sur le sujet, je sais pas si tu as lu le billet de Michel Goya, je l'ai trouvé très intéressant https://lavoiedelepee.blogspot.com/2023/11/gaza-combien-de-morts.html?m=1

algowatching, to random
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🇪🇺 Art 22 GDPR: You can't be subjected to an automated decision with legal effects.

🇫🇷 French authorities: We processed your personal data through Google Bard and denied your asylum claim.

https://pastebin.com/ENFGeErT

algowatching, to random
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Best use of generative AI yet.

https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/

Berlin Leipziger Straße, with flowers and space for living beings.

algowatching, to random
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🇩🇪 A court of appeal ruled that Deutsche Bahn's "fastest connection" algorithm deceived users because it doesn't always show the fastest connection.

https://www.spiegel.de/reise/deutsche-bahn-suchfunktion-schnellste-verbindung-anzeigen-ist-laut-gerichtsurteil-irrefuehrend-a-478a7a54-a26d-483a-8299-30c6b23893b3

I tried to test for an example where this would be detrimental to train users and couldn't find one. Any idea if this is a serious issue, @jon, or is it hair-splitting ?

algowatching,
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@jon I'll try to get hold of the actual ruling. Your hunch seems to be correct from the first sentence of the press release by the OLB FF: "Die Antragstellerin bietet Transportleistungen im Schienenpersonennahverkehr an." https://ordentliche-gerichtsbarkeit.hessen.de/presse/schnellste-verbindung-anzeigen-ist-irrefuehrend

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