The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

"The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site."

Generative AI keeps on ruining everything.

#AI #genai #LLM #wikipedia #internet #tech #news

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

"The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site."

Generative AI keeps on ruining everything.

#AI #genai #LLM #wikipedia #internet #tech #news

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs:

https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc

I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks:

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

Suggestions and corrections welcome!

#internet #resilience#digital #independence