Louis Chartrand

Corpus experimenter, philosopher, data scientist. Cogito, ergo obsum.
http://louis.philotech.org

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2026-01-18 00:43:56 UTC

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I was just reading @npub1fdr…lvhs and he adds another difficulty in his last post: « The Irish state is thoroughly captured by the corporations that pretend to call Ireland home. Anything those corporations want, Ireland must deliver, lest the footloose companies up sticks and start pretending to be Cypriot, Luxembourgeois, Maltese or Dutch. This is why Europe's landmark privacy law, the GDPR, has had no effect on America's tech giants. They pretend to be Irish, and Ireland lets them get away with breaking European law. » https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

2026-01-17 22:07:47 UTC

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Possibly. But in this episode of _Underscore (French tech channel): https://youtu.be/o-U9Wa4WvJI they talk about how fines are incommensurate with the financial repercussions for AI leaders. I'm not sure if they were talking about GDPR.
In any case, I think it would be very hard to enforce, wouldn't it?

2026-01-17 21:34:03 UTC

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LLM training: I can’t remember sources, unfortunately, but that’s pretty much an industry standard by now. Terms of service for just about everything have been updated just for that. There was a bit of a scandal with MS recently because they put had a keylogger in windows - I can’t remember if it was a public scandal or a thing within the public service. In any case, not sure if they admitted to it, but everyone understood that it was for training LLMs (and other explications actually sound a lot more nefarious)

2026-01-17 21:20:24 UTC

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I’ll never understand why we have to use these abominations when there’s perfectly good, cheaper FOSS alternatives that won’t harvest your chats for LLM training

2024-10-24 04:15:01 UTC

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I'm always amazed of how small the moon actually is when you take a photo of it. I guess my gaze just focuses on it when it's live, and it gives me the impression it takes more space in the sky than it actually does.