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                toothlessly,

                even the crickets 
                have fallen 

                silent. 


                            —animasuri’23 

contextual triggers:

The Analysis and Research Team (ART): Milton, G., Genson, R., Alhadeff, J., Gaub, F., De Marcilly, C., Erll, M., Finamore, S., Saliot, E. (2023, April 24). ChatGPT in the Public Sector – overhyped or overlooked? Online: European Council Research Papers. Council of the European Union. Last retrieved 25 April 2023 from https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/council-research-papers/

Contextually this title might be of additional interest when noticing the publication by Insider of 2022:

David, Emilia. (2022, December 20). Viral chatbot ChatGPT will be overhyped, then overlooked, and then, perhaps, essential. Online: Insider. Retrieved from: https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-will-be-overhyped-overlooked-and-then-perhaps-essential-2022-12

As a third reference and source, it might be of interest to note that the authors of the EU article close with a disclaimer: “During the writing process, ChatGPT was used to obtain a view on some of the descriptions of machine learning techniques and was consulted on whether its own assessment of its ability to respect some of the principles underpinning the work of the public sector corresponded with our own.”

Rosenberg, Scott. (2023, April). How we all became AI’s Brain Donor. Online: axios.com retrieved from here

A few of the beautifully human oddities at play:

it is said/lamented by some that ethics has no teeth

…mandibles are not teeth; and yet…

… silence is at times popularly symbolized with sounds of a cricket. While their sound actually breaks silence and en masse are very loud

the EU is said to lead on regulation, mapping GDPR with Human Rights and ethics …and yet its research team is using ChatGPT… a derivative (on LLMs) technology that plays loosely (via statistical probabilistic regurgitation, appropriation and regeneration) with: accuracy ( eg truth, reality, libel, “confabulation,” “delusion”) privacy protection, consent, data dignity, data transparency, data minimization, data purpose limitation, right to data access, right to data erasure, right to be forgotten, right to object, algorithmic transparency, techno-feudalism, accountability, confidentiality, and so on. Some-to-many of these concepts are part of GDPR and Human Rights declarations.

some voices are concerned we are regulated and governed by technology, big-tech into techno-feudalism.

IPR, GDPR, Human Rights, … : e.g.: consent, data sufficiency, data ownership, data privacy, … governance as toothless?