The proposed rules are expected to be passed, however an amendment to allow for the use of facial recognition in limited circumstances, tabled by the European People's Party of which Fine Gael is a member, has led to unease among some groups in the parliament, who believe it should be banned.
I'm glad we're bringing in some sort of regulation, social media companies got away with shady business practices for years by selling user data without express consent before GDPR was brought in.
With AI advancing so fast and only being able to be controlled by large entities with enough resources to power it, we need proper regulation that protects EU citizens from disinformation and manipulation tactics that can be employed across the internet without us even realising it.
Ireland has already been creating a biometric photo database of the country’s 3.2 million Public Services Card (PSC) holders.
So I am hopeful that the amendment to allow for the use of facial recognition in limited circumstances is completely shut down for now. In the future, using AI in exceptional legal cases might be alright once everyone fully understands how it would work and how it can be regulated and how their rights would be affected by its implementation
Olga Cronin, surveillance and human rights policy officer at ICCL, said the Department has been “building a national biometric database without a relevant legal basis and without transparency”.
“It continues to collect people’s biometric information in exchange for services they are legally entitled to.
I'm sure we'll begin to see AI take over jobs, leading to higher unemployment/ shorter working hours, it would be great to see some form of universal basic income come out of this to allow for a better work life balance, maybe it could be subsidies by companies that choose to use AI for these positions.
Here's a bit more information on what is being voted on today https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230505IPR84904/ai-act-a-step-closer-to-the-first-rules-on-artificial-intelligence
Just tar and zstd. They're probably installed by default for most distros anyway.
I think this is what I used when I first tried out zstd https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-and-use-zstd-compression-tool-on-linux
Tar supports input from zstd so I put everything on one line.
-I takes the input from zstd which is in quotes.
--ultra it should be redundant but for some reason its needed for higher levels of compression.
-22 the highest level of compression offered by zstd.
-c for compress.
-v for verbose.
-f for the file name.
-C excludes the absolute path to the file/directory and just takes YourFile as the file/directory to compress. Its not needed if you're in the same directory as YourFile.
I would recommend leaving out
and just test how much compression you get with the default level first because 22 is super slow and if it just can't compress the file you won't see any difference in file size compared to the default compression level.