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+++ Now for free (no paywall!) until Monday and including a new feature with suggested follow-up questions +++ 💡 In Francesco Marconi 's book "Newsmakers" I learnt about the concept of "iterative journalism" and instantly got hooked on the idea. In a slightly different setting, we're applying this concept now with our AI tool for the upcoming European elections sz.de/europawahl-bot . 📊 We are analyzing our users' input and questions (completely anonymized) and provide this to our editors and journalists. They use this information for creating new stories. This not only let's us create stories that are really relevant to our users but also enables them to participate in our journalism. Usually, these types of features are part of our subscription. We are offering it for free, just for a few days, to get a much broader sense of relevant topics and questions that are on people's minds.

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AI will of course not only revolutionize news production. Join this session to get more insights, how AI is beneficial in #healthcare and other industries. #wearecgi #ai

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🔥 Get to know Bettina Rotermund at TheNTWKSummit 🔥 Join us at #TheNTWKSummit24 in Barcelona and get inspired by today’s featured speaker, Bettina Rotermund, SVP | Head of Strategy & Analyst Relations Siemens Xcelerator at Siemens AG. Bettina is passionate about people, digital transformation, and loves transforming traditional setups into future-fit companies. She held several managing positions in strategy & business development, sales & marketing for various companies like Sony and BMW prior to joining Siemens in 2018. In her current position, Bettina is responsible for the strategy and evolution of the open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator, designed to accelerate the digital transformation of customers and partners. Bettina’s keynote: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝗴𝗼-𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗰𝗼-𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 – 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Description: This keynote dives into how ecosystems can enable business growth, help with decision-making, and drive resilience as a company. Bettina shows how the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem and digital platform enables sustainability and digital transformation at scale, how partnering with companies of all sizes brings benefits to all, and shares some of her lessons learned from her own journey. Key questions to discuss with Bettina: ❓Make or join a platform? ❓Where to start with #digitaltransformation ❓Who to partner with for #sustainability? ❓How to cure my skilled workforce challenge? ❓Will AI disrupt my operations? 💡In a just a few weeks’ time, visionary leaders like Bettina will meet at TheNTWKSummit in Barcelona and help shape the future of digital business. 💡 👇 Join us in person or online! Check the comments for more info and tickets. 👇 Brought to you by TheNTWK | Digital Business Models, Europe's leading community for platform and ecosystem innovators. #TheNTWKSummmit24 #Siemens #Ecosystems #Innovation

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Such a powerful story from a collaboration between Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and netzpolitik.org. The scrollytelling narrative focuses on the potential dangers of #data across various sectors. Most importantly, the story provides a compelling look at the shift from an information society to a surveillance society. https://lnkd.in/dpxHs9i4

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Want to know why podcasts are now in their video era? And what podcast genres and categories still have potential to get noticed? Listen to this episode of ‚Digitale Vorreiter*innen‘ 🚀🏆 Thanks for the invitation! Christoph Vodafone Business and Podstars by OMR

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More than just porn I'm currently working on a new episode of my podcast "Auf der Kippe - Philosophie für das digitale Zeitalter" on #DeepFakes, #SyntheticMedia and the #infocalypse. Here are some thoughts, insights or examples I consider worth dropping in a small series of posts. For more checkout the coming podcast. Nr. 3👉 The evolution of DeepFakes 2017: The first ever (as far as we can tell) so-called DeepFake appears on the internet and it is - of course - a porn DeepFake applying a laughably bad face-swapping technique. 2019: A study published in 2019 comes to the conclusion that 96% of all DeepFakes on the internet are porn DeepFakes (what does that say about us humans?). They still are easy to detect as fake. 2024: DeepFakes become indistinguishable from non-fake media. OpenAI’s #sora and other tools show what is possible. And it is the year that provides a strong usecase: 2024 is the biggest super election in history. Almost half of the world's population (approx. 45%) will vote this year, including geostrategically important countries such as the USA, Europe, Russia, Taiwan and India. This represents a significant trigger to use DeepFake technology for manipulative purposes. Some Examples? 👉 In the US primary campaign in New Hampshire, many voters are receiving calls from President Biden urging them not to vote. 👉 In the run-up to the European elections, videos of supposed nieces of Marine LePen are appearing on TikTok in France, promoting the Rassemblement National with anti-muslim statements. 👉 In Denmark, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announces that the Danes work too little and that all public holidays should therefore be abolished - including Easter and Christmas. Only the Muslim holiday of breaking the fast should be retained. I can go on forever. It’s all fake: voice cloning, fotos, videos. Deepfakes are leaving the porn niche and without countermeasures it will be impossible to say what is real and what is not. (Picture showing me this time as a bearded 'hippie', generated with 'FaceApp' in < 1 minute) (👉Nr. 1 https://lnkd.in/eMUEpMN4) (👉Nr. 2 https://lnkd.in/eMSQZEny) #AufDerKippe #AI #GenAI #KI #FakeNews

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📣 Episode Nr. 29 of my podcast "Auf der Kippe - Philosophie für das digitale Zeitalter" is out: DeepFakes and the Infocalypse.   I have dropped a set of posts concerning #DeepFakes, #SyntheticMedia, #GenAI and their connection with the collaps of trust and the #Infocalypse. In 2024 AI-generated media has become indistinguishable from reality. I would argue that the main concern is not that people trust things that are fake but that people don‘t trust anything at all:   👉 Deepfakes pretend to be real and thereby turn the real into fake.   Interested in hearing more? Checkout the podcast e.g. on Spotify and anywhere else: https://lnkd.in/eeQiVie (German language. I might give AI a try to translate it in english soon)   This time it‘s me on the picture. For real… ?   (👉 Nr. 1: https://lnkd.in/eMUEpMN4 👉 Nr. 2: https://lnkd.in/eMSQZEny 👉 Nr. 3: https://lnkd.in/e96CzqQe) #AufDerKippe #AI #GenAI #KI #FakeNews

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It was an interesting conference. Last week, I went to the #GoogleMarketingLive at the tech giant's new Bay View campus in Mountain View. 5,000 employees work here on a good 100,000 square meters, primarily on the ad business, Google's most important revenue stream. And thus on nothing less than the #internet of the future. There, AIs will soon be tracking users incessantly. Advertisers are delighted, data protectionists alarmed ... 💡 "We are all going through another transformative moment together today, perhaps the most transformative to date," said Google SVP Philipp Schindler on the big stage. "Of course I'm talking about the new #AI era." 💡 The "Marketing Live" takes place a week after the I/O developer conference, at which CEO Sundar Pichai presented the company's new achievements in AI. While I/O is the conference for the headlines, "Marketing Live" is for business. Google has invited hundreds of its closest customers: Advertising and creative agencies, large corporations and family businesses. All of them earn their money with and around Google's advertisements, which generated around 62 billion dollars for the tech giant last quarter. 💡 Now, Google wants to fundamentally transform the online advertising world. Three developments make this possible: 1. The end of cookies 2. AI-generated advertising is becoming omnipresent 3 AI predicts user behavior Full story in Handelsblatt including insights from Brendon Kraham, Karen Stocks, Sebastian Küpers, Daniel Ives and Nader Henein:

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The Panel on x-industry collaboration in the culture and creative sector, is about to start. Thank you Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes for hosting the 8th Creative Lab, this time focussing on Cross Innovation. In order to tackle the waste problem of today and resource scarcity of tomorrow, cross-industrial collaboration is a key approach. Because One persons waste is another persons treasure.

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#flaschenpost The International 2024´Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, holds significance amidst the backdrop of Italy's political landscape. In recent years, Italy has experienced a rise in nationalism and populist movements, which have sometimes challenged press freedom and independent journalism. This context adds a layer of complexity to the festival's importance and impact. On one hand, the festival serves as a beacon of resistance against attempts to suppress free speech and undermine democratic values. It provides a space for journalists to exchange ideas, challenge authority, and advocate for transparency and accountability in media, I do stand for! However, hosting such an event in a country where nationalist sentiments are on the rise also carries risks. It could attract scrutiny and criticism from nationalist groups or individuals who perceive the festival as a threat to their agenda. In this sense, the festival's significance is not only in promoting press freedom but also in confronting the challenges posed by nationalist ideologies. In essence, the International Journalism Festival in Italy embodies the tension between the ideals of a free press and the realities of political polarization and nationalism. It stands as a testament to the resilience of journalism in the face of adversity and underscores the importance of defending democratic principles in an increasingly polarized world.

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republica GmbH is the largest conference for the digital society in Germany and has attracted over 30,000 visits in the last three days. At the same time, it is also the most diverse and, with 57.59% female participants, one of the few digitalization events that attracts even more women than men. The motto of this year's #rp24 was "Who Cares?". Deutsche Bundesbank cares about #money. Together with Tobias Pohl I gave a Lightning Talk on the topic "What is Money?" We started with kauri snails 🐌 , explained the role and function of money 💶 and discussed how our handling of money is changing in the digital society. We also provided an outlook on the future of money and the #DigitalEuro. The talk generated a great deal of interest, and many questions were asked afterward, particularly about the digital euro. I guess we need a follow up at the #rp25 next year. What do you think? Photo credits: Jan Michalko / re:publica

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I talked to the famous #energy expert Daniel Yergin about what the #AI boom means for the energy transition. And you might not like what he has to say. “AI is a very hungry caterpillar” and it will take longer than planned to get rid off fossil fuels. He also has some advice for #Germany... Energie-Koryphäe Daniel Yergin: „Fossile Brennstoffe werden bis 2050 auf keinen Fall verschwinden“ -

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Closing the Circle I'm currently working on a new episode of my podcast "Auf der Kippe - Philosophie für das digitale Zeitalter" on #DeepFakes and #SyntheticMedia. Here are some thoughts, insights or examples I consider worth dropping in a small series of posts. For more checkout the coming podcast. Nr. 2👉 What role does AI play in the #Infocalypse? 1️⃣ "Traditional" #AI algorithms curate what part of reality you see on digital and social media. E.g. on Instagram every day approx. 100 mio fotos are newly added. On YouTube every minute 400 hours of new content is uploaded. AI decides based on engagement-based ranking which chunk of the digital world you get to experience. The content itself (text, foto, film, audio etc.) have traditionally been man-made. 2️⃣ Now comes #GenAI. GenAI leads to the content itself beeing AI-generated no matter if it is text, foto, film or audio. A study concludes that by the end of this decade the majority of internet content will be AI generated. The result is AI curating what you see and AI creating what you see and thereby significantly shaping your worldview. (Picture showing me this time as an old man -feature 'cool old man'-, generated with 'FaceApp' in < 1 minute) (Nr. 1 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMUEpMN4) #AufDerKippe #socialmedia #digitalmedia #YouTube #Instagram

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Vorsicht Fake! - Watch out for fakes! Desinformation bei den EU-Parlamentswahlen bedroht die Demokratie, meint Dr. Martin J. Krämer, #Security #Awareness #Advocate bei #KnowBe4. Disinformation in EU elections threatens democracy, says Dr. Martin J. Krämer, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4. https://lnkd.in/ed5KYxNd

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Journalists like to focus on things that are not going well. And rightly so. But at the same time, it's also valuable to highlight positive examples and recognize those who contribute to improving the world. That's exactly what Handelsblatt is doing with our current "Zukunftsausgabe" ("Future Edition"). Sebastian Matthes came up with the idea for a special issue that focus on "places of the future" – on companies, pioneers and communities that show what can be done if we stop complaining and start building. One sector that I find especially fascinating is #biotech. Nowhere else does technology improve our lives so directly. The oldest biotech company of the world is Genentech in South San Francisco, so right on my doorstep. It was exciting to visit the Roche subsidiaries' labs, to talk to CEO Ashley Magargee, lab chief Lluc Mosteiro and many others... The two founders (see picture below) could not have been more different: Robert Swanson was a venture capitalist; Herbert Boyer was a biochemist. In 1973, he was the first to show that #enzymes can be used as a kind of "scissors" to cut out and replace #DNA fragments: gene therapy was born. In the following decades, Genentech changed medicine with new procedures. And it has found a way to remain #innovative even after almost 50 years and with over 12,000 employees. How? Take a look at #Handelsblatt! And read the other stories of the "Future Edition", curated by Christian Rickens, too! Link in the comments.

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Our colleague Kai Unzicker was recently featured on Deutschlandradio just ahead of the U.S. election, discussing how media should handle disinformation and fake news. He joined Clara Reveland from ARD Faktenfinder and Sami Nenno from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, with Sascha Wandhöfer moderating the conversation. In this insightful discussion, it became clear that tackling disinformation requires action on many levels—from fact-checking to fostering a pluralistic, accessible journalism. Kai shared his perspective in a closing statement on what he sees as the essential foundation to effectively counter disinformation. Here’s his quote: "To truly get a handle on disinformation, we need a bundle of different measures. This responsibility doesn’t just lie with the media but also with politics, educational institutions, and social platforms. Fact-checking is important, but it’s not enough on its own. [...] That’s why my strong appeal is this: we need fact-based, high-quality journalism that’s in-depth and easily accessible to people. This is the absolute prerequisite for a democratic public." You can listen to the full episode, "Ahead of the U.S. Presidential Elections – How Should Media Handle Disinformation and Fake News?" on Deutschlandradio’s website (only in German) – highly recommended for those interested!

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Austria 🇦🇹: The digitization fund for radio is to be increased by 1 million euros per year. This fund supports the costs of digital terrestrial radio broadcasting via DAB+. "From June, 30 new radio programs will be launched via DAB+ and will make the radio offering in Austria even more colorful and diverse," says Drumm. "This will give Austrians even more choice, and it will be completely free and easy to access. But refinancing these stations is difficult, especially in the first few years, so this start-up funding is important to stabilize the offering." #DAB #Digitalradio #DABplus https://lnkd.in/dnsu9gX7

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ICYMI ... Maybe something to read this summer: OECD Artificial Intelligence Review of Germany This report provides an international benchmarking of Germany’s artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem and discusses progress in implementing its national AI strategy. The report draws on quantitative and qualitative data and insights from the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and from the OECD Programme on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS) – an OECD research programme financed by the German Federal Government – and results from a series of interviews with a wide range of stakeholders in Germany. The review discusses Germany’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges in AI, and provides recommendations to steer AI policy in Germany in the coming years. The evidence is presented according to the core focus areas outlined in Germany’s national AI strategy, which include: 1) minds; 2) research; 3) transfer and applications; 4) the world of work; 5) policy and regulatory frameworks; 6) society. Furthermore, the report discusses AI infrastructure and it includes three sector spotlights on AI in the public sector, AI and environmental sustainability and AI and healthcare. OECD Libaray https://lnkd.in/gEaFaARQ

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