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Claes de Vreese

181 trust researcher @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17,755 followers
Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff || 🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
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Really interesting. Liable for content! The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
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  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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Pope Leo warns about AI. A warning against misinformation, conflict, and the risk of “leading the world down a path of unending war” Pope Leo read the room right at least on one thing: citizens support regulation of AI Read: www.techpolicy.press/governments-... www.reuters.com…

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Open AI says it will support the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content. A good start. Now let’s move from the announcement to signing the Code. openai.com/index/suppor...

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The 🇪🇺 Code of Practice on marking and labelling AI-generated content has dropped💥 The Code sets out practical measures for providers and deployers of Gen AI systems to comply with the AI Act’s transparency obligations. They apply from August 2nd 2026 digital-strategy.ec.europ…

Commission publishes Code of Practice on marking and labelling AI-generated content digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • The Code of Practice is voluntary, but the AI Act transparency obligations it supports become enforceable on August 2, 2026.
  • Three categories require labelling: deepfakes, AI-generated or manipulated text on matters of public interest, and interactive AI systems such as chatbots.
  • The European Commission released EU icons for labelling AI-generated content alongside the code to reduce implementation friction for providers.
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(Google) AI kills referral traffic to media and journaliste sites. There is a surge in time spent on AI services, but it leads to ZERO clicks. Not just less than regular search, but zero! Result just out in new report from Danish Media Association. #dkmedier #journalism dpcmo.…

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Good 🍀 to Sanne Vrijenhoek who is defending her timely and important PhD thesis "Building normative diversity into algorithmic news recommendations" today. Her work is a prime example of the interdisciplinary work in the @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab #proudsupervisors www.uva…

Could AI break our news bubbles? uva.nl
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US president using AI to mock and brag about his censorship efforts of media/ satire/ free speech, amplified by official White House communication channels. All normal stuff.

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It’s hard: journalists are not that good at detecting AI content. Luckily they are better at detecting real content. But still … @lyngemoller.bsky.social presenting our (with @emilbakke.bsky.social and 🙋) paper #ica26 #awardwinning 😀 @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

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It is recommendable that the new Danish government program has a full chapter on AI and an ambition to offer a balanced perspective. But there are a LOT of things to work out, many open ends. The devil is in the details. Hopefully they will leverage expertise and research in the next steps #dkpol

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