Leandro Ucciferri
@leandro.im
Tech Policy & Human Rights advocate. Holding the tech industry accountable, leading engagement for Ranking Digital Rights.
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These people have been told that the chatbox is an everything machine. The way out can't be to provide a better everything machine because that can't exist.
Because hundreds of millions of people are already using these tools and finding utility in them. And they're not crazy, they are reasonable. Telling them, "no, you have to do without", will make them think, "Oh, I guess the critics are crazy and the AI bros are the reasonable ones."
December 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
These people have been told that the chatbox is an everything machine. The way out can't be to provide a better everything machine because that can't exist.
Found an account on Instagram that shared cultural activities/plans in my city and it looked pretty cool at first. Then the owner started posting videos made with GenAI (e.g. using artists’ likeness, to simulate taking selfies with Dalí, etc.). Quickest unfollow.
December 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Found an account on Instagram that shared cultural activities/plans in my city and it looked pretty cool at first. Then the owner started posting videos made with GenAI (e.g. using artists’ likeness, to simulate taking selfies with Dalí, etc.). Quickest unfollow.
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I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading.
This is one of those cases.
This is one of those cases.
The rationale I was given for AI Summaries *alongside* ordinary abstracts:
* The AI-generated summaries are intended to be more accessible to non-experts.
(1/3)
* The AI-generated summaries are intended to be more accessible to non-experts.
(1/3)
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading.
This is one of those cases.
This is one of those cases.
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a wild story that encapsulates how tech executives view AI. Anthropic's Deputy CISO made his Discord server a ghost town by forcing an AI chatbot onto it despite community protests
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
www.404media.co
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
a wild story that encapsulates how tech executives view AI. Anthropic's Deputy CISO made his Discord server a ghost town by forcing an AI chatbot onto it despite community protests
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My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
How the Meaning of 'Publicly Accessible' Shapes Researcher Data Rights Under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press
Researchers eager to begin work under DSA Article 40(12) may be deterred by uncertainty about what data counts as 'publicly accessible,' writes Daphne Keller.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Is it really just about getting tighter control over the IP? (There's no way they don't limit how you can use Disney characters in AI slop videos). I guess paying $1B now vs years of litigation fees is a strategy...
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Is it really just about getting tighter control over the IP? (There's no way they don't limit how you can use Disney characters in AI slop videos). I guess paying $1B now vs years of litigation fees is a strategy...
Can someone with an enlightened business mindset explain to me what Disney stands to gain from this?
I have yet to read a convincing argument of why this was a "no brainer".
I have yet to read a convincing argument of why this was a "no brainer".
If it wasn't enough for Disney to milk Marvel, Star Wars and other franchises dry with bland shows on D+, now they're eagerly welcoming AI slop. openai.com/index/disney...
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Can someone with an enlightened business mindset explain to me what Disney stands to gain from this?
I have yet to read a convincing argument of why this was a "no brainer".
I have yet to read a convincing argument of why this was a "no brainer".
If it wasn't enough for Disney to milk Marvel, Star Wars and other franchises dry with bland shows on D+, now they're eagerly welcoming AI slop. openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If it wasn't enough for Disney to milk Marvel, Star Wars and other franchises dry with bland shows on D+, now they're eagerly welcoming AI slop. openai.com/index/disney...
Apple now directly encouraging students to use "AI chatbots" and promoting all the usual suspects. Hardly surprising (30% cut on in-app subscriptions...), but remember this when they try to pass as a human creativity-first brand.
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Apple now directly encouraging students to use "AI chatbots" and promoting all the usual suspects. Hardly surprising (30% cut on in-app subscriptions...), but remember this when they try to pass as a human creativity-first brand.
Perhaps @techpolicypress.bsky.social , maybe pitch it to @justinhendrix.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Perhaps @techpolicypress.bsky.social , maybe pitch it to @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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Final NCP ruling: Telenor violated the OECD Guidelines in its disengagement from Myanmar 🚨
Telenor should now take an active role in remediation and provide financial support to a Myanmar digital security relief mechanism, according to the decision.
Read more: www.somo.nl/telenor-fail...
Telenor should now take an active role in remediation and provide financial support to a Myanmar digital security relief mechanism, according to the decision.
Read more: www.somo.nl/telenor-fail...
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Final NCP ruling: Telenor violated the OECD Guidelines in its disengagement from Myanmar 🚨
Telenor should now take an active role in remediation and provide financial support to a Myanmar digital security relief mechanism, according to the decision.
Read more: www.somo.nl/telenor-fail...
Telenor should now take an active role in remediation and provide financial support to a Myanmar digital security relief mechanism, according to the decision.
Read more: www.somo.nl/telenor-fail...
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I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.
The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."
Elon about to get big mad.
I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.
The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."
Elon about to get big mad.
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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"Although the trading platform surged in popularity last year when people used it to predict the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential elections, a large portion of Kalshi’s trades are actually tied to sports"
so...glorified gambling.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/k...
so...glorified gambling.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/k...
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Although the trading platform surged in popularity last year when people used it to predict the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential elections, a large portion of Kalshi’s trades are actually tied to sports"
so...glorified gambling.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/k...
so...glorified gambling.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/k...
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A new @cdteu.org report looks into export licensing systems in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱 & finds that existing frameworks are not ⚠️fully equipped to address challenges related to #spyware trade, incl. current market dynamics (e.g. complex corporate structures) that prevent oversight & control.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A new @cdteu.org report looks into export licensing systems in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱 & finds that existing frameworks are not ⚠️fully equipped to address challenges related to #spyware trade, incl. current market dynamics (e.g. complex corporate structures) that prevent oversight & control.
cdt.org/wp-content/u...
cdt.org/wp-content/u...
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Anytime you see Microsoft or any US company state the CLOUD Act is not such a big deal for Europe, do ask them if they can reassure us on FISA 702 and EO12333 as well. You will not get an answer. Here EDRI sets it out nicely: edri.org/our-work/pro...
Promises unkept: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework under fire - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
A decade after Snowden’s revelations — and despite public outrage — surveillance and mass data collection continue under the EU-U.S.
edri.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Anytime you see Microsoft or any US company state the CLOUD Act is not such a big deal for Europe, do ask them if they can reassure us on FISA 702 and EO12333 as well. You will not get an answer. Here EDRI sets it out nicely: edri.org/our-work/pro...
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like big tobacco funding cancer research
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
like big tobacco funding cancer research
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I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
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more than anything, this should remind you how bad generative has ruined the information ecosystem
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
more than anything, this should remind you how bad generative has ruined the information ecosystem
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
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Crowdstrike (Microsoft), AWS, Cloudflare failures:
"These incidents are not random. They reflect a deeper, structural issue: Internet consolidation has reached a point where the failure of a single provider can destabilize significant parts of the global Web."
"These incidents are not random. They reflect a deeper, structural issue: Internet consolidation has reached a point where the failure of a single provider can destabilize significant parts of the global Web."
"How Consolidation is Eroding Internet Resilience" by Amreesh Phokeer @amreeshphokeer.bsky.social pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/how-con...
How Consolidation is Eroding Internet Resilience
Internet consolidation has shifted us toward an ecosystem where a handful of companies underpin much of the global digi…
pulse.internetsociety.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Crowdstrike (Microsoft), AWS, Cloudflare failures:
"These incidents are not random. They reflect a deeper, structural issue: Internet consolidation has reached a point where the failure of a single provider can destabilize significant parts of the global Web."
"These incidents are not random. They reflect a deeper, structural issue: Internet consolidation has reached a point where the failure of a single provider can destabilize significant parts of the global Web."