European Digital Identity Wallet is the reference implementation under which each member state can model their own to access all governmental services. It will effectively be mandatory for citizens to do anything. It’s also planned to be part of the EU age verification implementation.

It’s a featured post, hence the comment. Also PieFed is not Lemmy.

As far as I know it’s only the case with Safari using Google Safe Browsing service and Google being the default search.

Sure there is. There are multiple European Union courts and so far they complied with every single rulling. When they fail to do so, we can start talking about authoritarianism or abuse of power.

Mixed. They sell phones with “standard” Android and /e/OS. “standard” Android could potencially have strong Google Play Integrity API support, while /e/OS which uses open source MicroG can only get basic Google Play Integrity API support.

But since API check can be required by app developer for any reason, it can easily be abused or mandated by law like age verification or chat control.

Whether they should or shoudn’t is a different question though. You said “overstepping their bounds” and “they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian”. If they have authority to do that, it can’t be that.

App Store itself directs those people to 3rd parties in those cases.

The EU has been overstepping their bounds for years now. The difference now is that they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian. They’ve been authoritarian all along, but the lefties were ok with it because it was authoritarianism that they agreed with.

EU does flex its power a lot, but the only case I know where you can say they are overstepping their authority was the money borrowing on the EU level during COVID-19 pandemic. Since they have no power of taxation, EU might not be able to repay its debts if countries don’t voluntary repay or other countries cover those debts.

Do you have other examples where they breached their authority?

Things like forcing Apple to allow other payment methods was championed, but imagine if your business is forced to let your customers pay someone else to use your system, and then you’re the one that had to handle all their complaints because they got scammed.

That is simply not case. Apple has extremely detailed list of payment methods they provide support over. And anything they do not support, they refer you to that payment provider or developer.

https://support.apple.com/en-vn/111741

Many authors are required to use them whether they like or not. Not sure if that’s the case here though.

lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad

lemmy.zip now blocks hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml for all new users by default. They can unblock them if they choose.

It’s also funny to see strong defederation policy being seen as a negative.

Tehnically you would be breaking terms of service and license, but in a legal sense we don’t know if that would be enforceable. Still hasn’t been answered by courts.

Oversupply. They pushed the price so low that the government is trying to put pressure on them to normalize the prices.

They can customize it with master/system prompts. But they are limited to the models trained by them.

I haven’t heard of any other cases.

I haven’t seen any verifiable information on it happening on a large scale.

If you know of that being the case please educate me.

So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years? Spotify invested millions into detecting fake listens as they have to pay out for them. And sure it might happen on small scale, but I haven’t seen any verifiable information on it happening on a large scale. The cost of that would be enourmous as you need residential IPs to even try which are in limited supply.

Access to many news sites is already part of the licencing deal with Perplexity.

• https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-the-perplexity-publishers-program
• https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-expands-publisher-program-with-15-new-media-partners

If ratings were so easy to manipulate we would dispute every single top hit no matter if it was LLM-generated or not. Even in your shuffle usage, you probably don’t actively look at each new song, but just hit like when something catches your ear. So as long as the music is appealing people will listen. And Spotify only counts listens aften 30 seconds and only non-subsequent repeats.

If people could opt out of AI music, the overwhelming amount of people would take the time to do so.

It doesn’t really matter if it’s LLM-generated or not for most people. As with other LLM usage, while loud minority screams bloody murder, LLM tools breaks usage records. There are many issues with LLMs, but majority of people only care about the end result. And yes, some people would opt-out on principle, but saying that most people would is delusional.

Personally if LLM could replicate my favorite bands and supplement the void when they are in between album releases, I can guarantee you that I would listen to it. That doesn’t mean I would stop listening to those artists.

Definitely.