Henrik Hemrin @hehemrin@librem.one

”Vill du eller din organisation kunna transkribera stora mängder handskrivna dokument i er egen IT-miljö? Eller dokument som innehåller känsliga personuppgifter? Det vill vi på Riksarkivet också och nu kan ni använda vår modell Swedish Lion Libre!”

”Vi släpper dessa verktyg helt öppet, fria att använda, modifiera och bidra till, i hopp om att det på sikt ska ge större tillgång till innehållet i handskrivna, maskinskrivna och tryckta handlingar som textdata.”

https://riksarkivet.se/nyhetsarkiv?item=120830

It's no secret that I am not a fan at all of generative AI. I posted a meme earlier joking about how it is something abused to steal labor (or avoid paying it) by the ultra-wealthy and I got some criticism of "but generative AI does important things for human rights and accessibility, too!"

Of course it is. AI, ML, and generative AI in specific are tools. The people who conceived of them mostly had good intentions. It is a flaw of human nature and capitalism that new and robust technological tools are often leveraged for the worst possible money-making and people-oppressing schemes, especially when their creators don't have the ethical forethought to predict it. We see it with forensic and cybersecurity developments, all the time.

Lots of things that have mostly been purposed for evil by evil people still have some significant and important uses for societal good. Look at opioids. Cryptocurrency. Military explosives. Even social media. Me saying that those are tools that are primarily being used by corporations and the 1% to do Very Bad things and are contributing to the downfall of society doesn't take that away. They're tools that can be used or misused for certain tasks - none of them are magical or cursed.

We have to have conversations about the detriment, to try to create channels for them to be used but not misused.

My youngest, Lizzie, and my wife, Donna got to meet Tim Walz today when he stopped into the bookstore where Donna was working. :)

Och under gångna bokmässehelgen publicerade GP Kultur min analys av den kluvna bokmarknaden. Som i förlängningen leder till två helt olika författarroller, en introvert och en extrovert.

Jag visar också hur ljudbokstjänsterna Storytel och Bookbeat premierar titlar från den egna förlagsgruppen. Man behöver inte marknadsföra böcker och författare om det räcker med att pusha rekommendationer i en app.
https://www.gp.se/kultur/kommentar/storsta-ljudboksforfattaren-ar-en-anonym-doldis-.fef55ea9-235e-4641-a9a6-d6ab09a45f42

My open source app of the week, for android. Suntimes is an absolutely fantastic app for everything sun and moon related. I wanted to know when the fall equinox was, and there it is. It's available on F-Droid.

#GrapheneOS #OpenSource #FOSS #Suntimes