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2026-04-09 14:22:22

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Europe, the AI Continent.

One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

Here's how 👉 link.europa.eu/nj3VH9


Commission sets course for Europe’s AI leadership with an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan

To become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is the objective of the AI Continent Action Plan launched on April 9 2025.
Shaping Europe’s digital future

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Europe, the AI Continent.

One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

Here's how 👉 link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

Commission sets course for Europe’s AI leadership with an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan

To become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is the objective of the AI Continent Action Plan launched on April 9 2025.
Shaping Europe’s digital future
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katzenberger

Burning the planet to generate unverified bullshit; stealing from creators; poisoning the whole process of generation, presentation, teaching, and usage of knowledge; helping to fire qualified professionals by the thousands, to replace them with unqualified babbling machines; inflating an irresponsible investment bubble until it bursts, resulting in unprecedented damage.

You're proud of your work of utter destruction? You fools. You're enemies of humankind.

"#AI" #EU #EUpol

#eu #eupol #ai

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senda

making easier for the bros to spoil our environment, render us jobless, propagate disinformation, cause mental health issues and even suicides, etc. for a plagiarism machine that barely does an acceptable job at the 3-4 real use cases is surely not the way to go. Why are you pushing for something no one wants (would you want to live near a datacenter? Me neither). Why don't we use this money to make europeans lives better? You don't care about anything but money, and that's gross.
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dch

here's a suggestion before spending a bazillion on "AI".

Make it (much) easier to start small businesses.

Like, €100 instead of €1000s, and a clearly defined list of paperwork, that can be processed at a single govt agency in under 1 hour, in 1 country.

Then, simplify the byzantine pan-EU tax arrangements so this small business can just pay tax once, instead of needing to spend €4000/year on accountant support, and filing in multiple countries.

And when you've achieved that marvel of bureaucratic enlightenment, by all means circle back and examine the detritus of whatever Yucatan-sized crater the US AI industry has imploded into, to see if anything of actual value can be forged from the slag.

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AlexTECPlayz

@dch 100%, to open a small business in Romania you either go through a paid service or you do it yourself and run around the city to like 3 or 4 govt agencies because they couldn't possibly handle this entirely online.

You often get berated at from a tired, overworked minimum wage woman in her 60s that your paperwork is missing something or you ticked the wrong box or whatever.

@dch
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SK53

@dch @alextecplayz Some years ago, pre-Brexit, I had a long taxi ride in the Val d'Aosta. The driver and his brother imported fancy stone from Switzerland and had needed a EC incorporated company. They registered in England and made a yearly visit to their accountants in Windsor. By all accounts this was the least bureaucratic approach available to them, and they were very pleased with the arrangement.
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SK53

@dch one of my favourites was told to me by the CFO of a multinational in mud-1990s. Filing company accounts in Spain was very onerous if done digitally, but there was an exemption if you filed manually. So the P&L, Balance Sheet etc were prepared on the accounts system, and then transcribed by a small accounting firm for filing.

Nothing matched Greek bureaucracy though.

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ProScience 🇪🇺

Your dishonest AF AI propaganda fails to mention that you're recklessly abolishing our rights as citizens *and* authors/creators, shamelessly selling our data to fascists that seek to destroy democracy and freedom, and at the same time fuel GHG emissions.

You traitors will be prosecuted for your crimes.

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Raphael Albert

Please make a screenshot of all the comments and send it to your superior. Ask them to send it to their superiors, until it reaches those in charge.

Here are people who know a thing or two about tech begging you to stop your PR and listen for once!

We can't afford to fall for every snake oil grift US Big Tech throws at us! We need the EU and those in charge to be really smart now, because as others have written, there's a lot at stake! Dare to resist the hype, for all our sakes!

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Hi @i! AI Factories are hubs for innovation, bringing together computing power, data, and talent to create advanced AI models. They connect universities, industries, and supercomputing centers to develop AI solutions for areas like health, climate, and manufacturing. You can find more information here: link.europa.eu/8xyx8t

AI Factories

AI Factories leverage the supercomputing capacity of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to develop trustworthy cutting-edge generative AI models.
Shaping Europe’s digital future
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Life of Maino 🇪🇺

please, please, please with sugar on top: don't do this. I can see every day at work what AI is doing and long story short: it is nothing good. I'd rather see a unified European Health Insurance or unified European retirement fonds. One social system for all member states. That would be something to be proud of, not wasting our ressources on AI.
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European Commission

Hi @peachymist! Artificial intelligence already plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and as AI develops, it holds even greater potential to improve the lives of EU citizens: enhancing disease prevention, reducing traffic fatalities, anticipating cyber threats, and much more. That's why we are proposing rules and actions for AI, enabling us to harness its full potential and maximise its benefits.
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Plan-A

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@European Commission @jess :3 No matter what you explain them and that it exists for decades ago they will hate those 2 letters A and I .. and part of it is very true but we don't want chat control , age verification or other privacy infringing new 'Law's' as AI exists since decades you turn around the subject to tell us what we knew already (I use a LLM myself, self made and running local host) those AI you implement reduce privacy. I won't give my medical records to your systems as all systems can be hacked and one day our data will be everywhere it already happens as I speak.
You are not ready to implement it by far but to start learn about it would be a more pleasant message and always leave the decisions to the people.

You impose things people loath.

So a good education starting from yourself about subjects and then make information to the people and let them decide is shortly said.

That money should be used to help the weakest of society and we want no new laws without vote of all the people of EU

This is no democracy but vote to some people and they make a coalition that is not of them the majority but ok it's not Right but you act as fascists.
Read Mussolini's book and discover the resemblances.

@European Commission @jess :3
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Salem's Lot

Do i understand you correctly that you will abolish any copyright, intellectual property and non-tamper laws immediately? Because thats what this means. Or you just create a second tier law for tech-lords who are allowed to break said laws and degrade literally everyone else - in that case we can assume this is a power grab by corruption.
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The_Universality

And how exactly do you plan your budgets for all those that are replaced with AI?

Also thank you for supporting AI, I really love speaking to AI instead of human on Customer Support.
It works exactly how one would expect - it doesn't.

Yes, we shall innovate in AI, but not fund its adoption in industry. That's on those who use it.

Use the money for defense and moving from Microslop's & Google's products to Open-Source

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JulesJones

Read. The. Room.

A *lot* of the people on Mastodon are creators who have had their intellectual property stolen to feed the generative AI models, with at least one of the billionaires involved openly admitting/bragging that his business model would not be profitable if they had to pay fair royalties for that intellectual property.

A lot of people on Mastodon are deeply concerned about the environmental damage, AI hallucinations, theft of personal/corporate data, and sundry other issues.

There are forms of analytical AI that are useful (e.g. analysis of medical images) and do not involve any of the above. You do not appear to be referring to such analytical models.

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huiiii!!!

Make Europe a science continent instead!
AI as in "we scan you and all your data without you being able to prevent this" is horrible, nobody wants that.
AI as a mathematical algorithm can be helpful in lots of applications - as any other algorithm. But this doesn't need pushing AI methods, just a solid funding of science! Scientists will use the method with the best results for their applications!

No to AI slop, surveillance & abuse, yes to a right to privacy & digital security!

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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines

@cstross @0xtero

The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
There is bad faith on both sides of the argument

The WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄

Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
Its a safety issue.

Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.

Copyright and artist exploitation?
Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.

So, yeah.
Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
#aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites

#ai #llm #aislop #luddites #neoluddites @Charlie Stross @Tero Hänninen
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mahadevank

@n_dimension @cstross @0xtero I don't trust you wulfy - and I don't like the tone of your arguments, seems exactly like tech bros who talk down to others.

But anyways, if you distill the model, there's no need for a data center, so who cares.

Might just need one or two data centers for training purposes.

Regarding putting things into orbit - the costs would be silly at best unless you do all kinds of jugglery like ship the model with 100 other useful things

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Ryan @ Ansible Games & CDF

these are not achievements. If you want public support, provide concrete evidence of how AI is delivering *net* benefit to UN Sustainable Development Goals. Tell us how AI is helping people and planet, not how businesses are saving money by laying off people or constructing new data centers that overheat the planet for memes.
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CatAClock

Full press here btw: ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc…
Not sure why yall made multiple link jumps.

The "AI Skills Academy" looks to be describing training people on working with Neural Networks. What they will do once they leave the slopcademy is a question left to the people I guess.

What's interesting is the "support AI adoption", which is what the "AI Omnibus" is supporting. Why? No, I'm serious. Why? Is the company test-bed the USA not enough to see that this is a bad direction to take?

Commission sets course for Europe\'s AI leadership with an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan

To become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is the objective of the AI Continent Action Plan launched today.
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Janeishly

No, seriously. Take a stand on this nonsense. It's built on stolen work and hidden labour, it's burning up our already scarce resources at a terrifying rate, it's really really bad for people's brains and even if it worked (which it doesn't) it would put billions of people out of work in a really short timescale. Who's going to pay taxes then? How does society cope when you wipe out the incomes of a huge tranche of its working population and give them... nothing in return?

We don't need this stuff, and we're certainly not ready for it, even IF it worked.

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Angela Scholder

Curious to hear how building our digital sovereignty from American BigTech is going!

Turning off all Big Tech solutions being used by all governments and vital infrastructure in Europe would have us descend into total chaos!

However, the EU Commission is apparently more concerned with FOMO in missing the race to the abyss with AI slop!

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

I don’t know if this account is actually monitored, or just a publishing place, but you may have noticed that this post has received almost overwhelmingly negative responses.

You could disregard this as Mastodon bias, but keep in mind that the biggest bias on Mastodon is that people who understand and built core parts of the information technology that you use every day are massively over represented. This is probably the only place you will get a lot of replies from people who both understand technology and do not have a financial incentive to hype things to get large amounts of government funding.

EDIT: I should add, I used machine learning during my PhD and there are a lot of problems for which it is a really good fit. But, in the current climate, it’s generally safe to interpret ‘AI’ as meaning ‘machine learning applied to a problem where machine learning is the wrong solution’. It isn’t a technology, it’s a branding term, and it’s a branding term used almost exclusively for things that have no social benefit.

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Andreas K

@david_chisnall
And speaking as an AI positive person, in the sense one can do really nice this with it, when used responsibly by competent people, not when used as a hype buzz word.

WTF are "AI factories"?

"Skills academy"? Aren't university curricula not enough?

And if it's such a great help for industry, why does it need subsidies for adoption?
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Cody

​:wojak_cursed:​ please reconsider your choices... There are many fields in which AI is ethical and useful, here are a few (of the many) where it isn't:
- Age verification
- Text generation
- Art generation
- Music generation
- Surveilance

Please refrain from making any implications that you are spending OUR tax payer money in those fields.

I understand corporate lobbyists are trying to convince you that this is what the European peoole want, but trust us, we are the technicians who run the technology you use. They do NOT want that.

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