The consequences of the Big Tech industrial model, based on the indiscriminate commercialisation of immature products at all costs to generate profits as quickly as possible, are coming to the surface, with not only economic but above all social and cultural effects for society at large by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Strategikon – an Italian Tech Blog. Continue reading “We should fear ourselves, not ChatGPT”
Meta and the rights’commodification problem
The Social Network giant, after dropping NFT, is facing judicial actions in the Netherlands and Italy regarding privacy issues. At stake are Big Tech industrial model and the idea that rights are good that can be traded by Andrea Monti – initially published in Italian by Wired.it Continue reading “Meta and the rights’commodification problem”
Meta and VAT. It is about the time to decide if personal data are of economic value
It is twenty years too late for someone to realise that taxes should be paid on transactions based on data. But the real issues are the ownership of (or on) information and the urgency to stop believing in ‘digital’ and ‘cyberspace’ by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Strategikon – an Italian Tech blog. Continue reading “Meta and VAT. It is about the time to decide if personal data are of economic value”
This is how Japan wants to become a Global Power
A privileged alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom, a technological partnership and an increase in deterrence capacity are the three pillars of Japan’s new national security doctrine, in which the EU as such does not play an important role, except for a marginal Italian presence. by Andrea Monti – Adjunct Professor of Digital Law at the Master of Digital Marketing, University of Chieti-Pescara – initially published in Italian by Formiche.net Continue reading “This is how Japan wants to become a Global Power“
ChatGPT and Knowledge Loss
ChatGPT is yet another ‘trend’ that, like blockchain, NFT and their offspings, will sooner or later disappear from the headlines (and from the professional qualifications of the ‘experts’). Meanwhile, warnings of millenarians, Luddites, Canutes and catastrophists are multiplying, never missing an opportunity to predict the ‘dangers to privacy’, the job losses caused by the use of AI to produce editorial content, studies and research, and the ‘bias’ that will lead AI to utter inappropriate ‘oracles’ or not in line with the politically correct. Then there are the heirs of Eliza’s ‘patients’, the software that in the 1960s imitated a psychotherapist of the Rogerian school, who ask ChatGPT existential questions and are amazed by the answers, and the plagiarists who, in arts and in the workplace, take advantage of these platforms by claiming as their own the results of the automated processing of a topic (be it text, images or sounds) by Andrea Monti – Initially published by Strategikon – an Italian Tech blog. Continue reading “ChatGPT and Knowledge Loss”