To ‘combat deep fakes,’ Denmark is proposing a law to give people copyright over their physical features and voices. But this makes it easier to sell data and objectify individuals, and risks paralysing research by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by MIT Technology Review Italia Continue reading “Why it is wrong (and dangerous) to impose copyright on human beings”
Dying on live streaming: when freedom becomes extreme entertainment
The Pormanove case reopens a radical question: to what extent can we dispose of our bodies in front of a camera? And who is really responsible? by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Dying on live streaming: when freedom becomes extreme entertainment”
The dangers of self-surveillance: the De Martino case and the vulnerability of the “digital home”
The videos stolen from the anchorman’s house are not just a news story: they expose the contradictions of a technological model based on surveillance and the illusion of control by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “The dangers of self-surveillance: the De Martino case and the vulnerability of the “digital home””
The economic exploitation of the illusion of immortality thanks to AI, chatbots and personal data
We are once again talking about “digital resurrection”, a misleading and inappropriate term that, in reality, constitutes another problematic aspect of informational identity and control over data concerning us — or its economic exploitation by Andrea Monti Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “The economic exploitation of the illusion of immortality thanks to AI, chatbots and personal data”
GPT-OSS is OpenAI’s “open-weight” model (which does not mean open source).
While the world is focused on the release of GPT 5, the almost simultaneous publication of GPT-OSS has gone virtually unnoticed. This is an “open” model with 120 billion parameters that can also run locally on older machines. It is censored but, above all, it is designed to resist jailbreaking by Andrea Monti Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “GPT-OSS is OpenAI’s “open-weight” model (which does not mean open source).”