Dr. Christiane Grünloh
@cgruenloh.bsky.social
PhD in Human-Computer Interaction | Head of #UX at Nedap | she/her | Books - Nature - Vipassana | DE - NL - EN
Passionate about human-centered and value-sensitive #eHealth design that empowers people, improves healthcare and doesn’t destroy the planet.
Passionate about human-centered and value-sensitive #eHealth design that empowers people, improves healthcare and doesn’t destroy the planet.
So, Disney goes from „we sue you into oblivion if you paint Mickey Mouse on the wall of your daycare center“ to „you can create whatever you want using GenAI and we do that too and replace our workers“ to „we sell your content back to you via your Disney+ subscription“
Got it.
Got it.
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
So, Disney goes from „we sue you into oblivion if you paint Mickey Mouse on the wall of your daycare center“ to „you can create whatever you want using GenAI and we do that too and replace our workers“ to „we sell your content back to you via your Disney+ subscription“
Got it.
Got it.
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Like is it weird that every discussion of this deal involves money going from Disney to OpenAI and no discussion of what's going the other way? Just seems weird a publicly traded company isn't telling investors "hey we're getting X for trading access to our most valuable assets to a slop machine".
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Like is it weird that every discussion of this deal involves money going from Disney to OpenAI and no discussion of what's going the other way? Just seems weird a publicly traded company isn't telling investors "hey we're getting X for trading access to our most valuable assets to a slop machine".
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They got full access to Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars IP AND a billion instead of getting sued into the ground and paying for it through the roof. I might not like OpenAI, but this is a clear win for them.
December 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
They got full access to Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars IP AND a billion instead of getting sued into the ground and paying for it through the roof. I might not like OpenAI, but this is a clear win for them.
What happens if after 3 years Disney doesn’t renew the license agreement?
„Trying to remove training data once it has been baked into a large language model is like trying to remove sugar once it has been baked into a cake. You’ll have to trash the cake and start over…“ medium.com/data-science...
„Trying to remove training data once it has been baked into a large language model is like trying to remove sugar once it has been baked into a cake. You’ll have to trash the cake and start over…“ medium.com/data-science...
Why GenAI is a Data Deletion and Privacy Nightmare
The clue you need to understand the LinkedIn OptOut scandal
medium.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
What happens if after 3 years Disney doesn’t renew the license agreement?
„Trying to remove training data once it has been baked into a large language model is like trying to remove sugar once it has been baked into a cake. You’ll have to trash the cake and start over…“ medium.com/data-science...
„Trying to remove training data once it has been baked into a large language model is like trying to remove sugar once it has been baked into a cake. You’ll have to trash the cake and start over…“ medium.com/data-science...
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This Disney-OpenAI deal is breaking my brain. It's not OpenAI paying for the right to use Disney characters, it's Disney paying THEM. All OpenAI does is give Disney access to its API so that they can use ChatGPT and Sora to replace their animators, other employees, and 3rd party contractors.
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This Disney-OpenAI deal is breaking my brain. It's not OpenAI paying for the right to use Disney characters, it's Disney paying THEM. All OpenAI does is give Disney access to its API so that they can use ChatGPT and Sora to replace their animators, other employees, and 3rd party contractors.
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Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
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there’s a lot of irony around how writing a genuinely good prompt for LLMs requires the exact kind of clarity and precision in communication that is taught by good (human) writing instructors - who have now almost all been laid off by college admins
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
there’s a lot of irony around how writing a genuinely good prompt for LLMs requires the exact kind of clarity and precision in communication that is taught by good (human) writing instructors - who have now almost all been laid off by college admins
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Posting this little 2 minute masterpiece again.
It's a French supermarket Christmas ad. It's everything that McDonalds ad is not. I prefer human art and creativity over whatever the fuck that was. If that makes me a luddite and anti-tech then a] so be it and b] kindly fuck off.
It's a French supermarket Christmas ad. It's everything that McDonalds ad is not. I prefer human art and creativity over whatever the fuck that was. If that makes me a luddite and anti-tech then a] so be it and b] kindly fuck off.
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Posting this little 2 minute masterpiece again.
It's a French supermarket Christmas ad. It's everything that McDonalds ad is not. I prefer human art and creativity over whatever the fuck that was. If that makes me a luddite and anti-tech then a] so be it and b] kindly fuck off.
It's a French supermarket Christmas ad. It's everything that McDonalds ad is not. I prefer human art and creativity over whatever the fuck that was. If that makes me a luddite and anti-tech then a] so be it and b] kindly fuck off.
Love this!
„Friend“ is an AI companion in the form of a pendant necklace. Their $1 million subway ads in New York were immediately „revised“ with Graffiti - which is already comedy gold.
But then Heineken said: hold my beer 😅
„Friend“ is an AI companion in the form of a pendant necklace. Their $1 million subway ads in New York were immediately „revised“ with Graffiti - which is already comedy gold.
But then Heineken said: hold my beer 😅
![Subway ad by AI company that states
„friend [frend] noun
someone who listens, responds, and supports you.“
Graffiti was added, scratching „friend“ and overwriting with „surveillance tool“; „someone“ with „person“
On the picture of necklace someone wrote „AI wouldn’t care if you lived or died“](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ikmuhdt3n6dafqvgrugtsfj/bafkreiagstjqjlpr6xj3meqss5gyaj3k4crumyxvs7i2ec6opip26utfxq@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Love this!
„Friend“ is an AI companion in the form of a pendant necklace. Their $1 million subway ads in New York were immediately „revised“ with Graffiti - which is already comedy gold.
But then Heineken said: hold my beer 😅
„Friend“ is an AI companion in the form of a pendant necklace. Their $1 million subway ads in New York were immediately „revised“ with Graffiti - which is already comedy gold.
But then Heineken said: hold my beer 😅
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Liebe Innenpolitik-Journalist*innen: Hier ist ein Elfmeter ohne Torwart für Euch: Die Schweiz hat die Palantir-Software überprüft und das Risiko für zu hoch befunden. Warum sind Dobrindt und mehrere Landesinnenminister anderer Meinung?
netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...
netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...
Schweiz: Palantir-Software hat verheerende Risiken
Nach Risikoprüfung des Einsatzes von Palantir-Software in der Schweiz bekam der US-Konzern eine Absage, trotz jahrelanger Hofierung von Behörden und Armee. Den Eidgenossen sind die Risiken zu groß. Da...
netzpolitik.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Liebe Innenpolitik-Journalist*innen: Hier ist ein Elfmeter ohne Torwart für Euch: Die Schweiz hat die Palantir-Software überprüft und das Risiko für zu hoch befunden. Warum sind Dobrindt und mehrere Landesinnenminister anderer Meinung?
netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...
netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...
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Open the article on desktop/laptop. Now resize the window.
This is 2010 technology.
In 2025, instead, we get a popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and says "this website looks better on the app."
This is 2010 technology.
In 2025, instead, we get a popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and says "this website looks better on the app."
Responsive Web Design
Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…
alistapart.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Open the article on desktop/laptop. Now resize the window.
This is 2010 technology.
In 2025, instead, we get a popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and says "this website looks better on the app."
This is 2010 technology.
In 2025, instead, we get a popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and says "this website looks better on the app."
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There’s this idea that I’ve been pondering for a bit that’s probably yet another Everyone Will Yell At Me thing, but… I don’t think that pointing out that AI is full of inaccuracies is an effective tactic at getting people not to use it. It’s based on cultural context that not everyone shares…
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
There’s this idea that I’ve been pondering for a bit that’s probably yet another Everyone Will Yell At Me thing, but… I don’t think that pointing out that AI is full of inaccuracies is an effective tactic at getting people not to use it. It’s based on cultural context that not everyone shares…
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To solve that problem, rather than reaching for imagined "AI" as a band-aid, we could ask how it came to be.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
To solve that problem, rather than reaching for imagined "AI" as a band-aid, we could ask how it came to be.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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As a Genetics professor, I think Kaplan & Tabery have the correct take. It’s a way to separate clueless wealthy techies from their money. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As a Genetics professor, I think Kaplan & Tabery have the correct take. It’s a way to separate clueless wealthy techies from their money. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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„The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus. This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism.“
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
„The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus. This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism.“
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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“As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself.“
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself.“
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„When colleagues insist ChatGPT is ‘just another tool in the toolbox,‘ I’m tempted to say FB was once ‘just a way to connect with friends.‘ There‘s a difference between tools & technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the environments in which we think, work, and relate.“
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
„When colleagues insist ChatGPT is ‘just another tool in the toolbox,‘ I’m tempted to say FB was once ‘just a way to connect with friends.‘ There‘s a difference between tools & technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the environments in which we think, work, and relate.“
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„These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up“
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
broligarchy.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
„These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up“
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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Gießens Oberbürgermeister hat es schön gesagt: "Gießen hat nicht gebrannt, sondern geleuchtet – durch die vielen Augen derer, die auf die Straßen gegangen sind und fröhlich und friedlich ihre Unterstützung unserer Demokratie gefeiert und ihrer Sorge vor einem Rechtsruck Ausdruck verliehen haben."
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Gießens Oberbürgermeister hat es schön gesagt: "Gießen hat nicht gebrannt, sondern geleuchtet – durch die vielen Augen derer, die auf die Straßen gegangen sind und fröhlich und friedlich ihre Unterstützung unserer Demokratie gefeiert und ihrer Sorge vor einem Rechtsruck Ausdruck verliehen haben."
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
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Wenn Rassisten wie PEGIDA auf die Straße gehen, sind es "besorgte Bürger" und ihre "Ängste und Sorgen" sind sehr interessant für die herrschende Politik. Wenn Zehntausende gegen Faschisten auf die Straße gehen, ist das "eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen ganz links und ganz rechts" (Merz).
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Wenn Rassisten wie PEGIDA auf die Straße gehen, sind es "besorgte Bürger" und ihre "Ängste und Sorgen" sind sehr interessant für die herrschende Politik. Wenn Zehntausende gegen Faschisten auf die Straße gehen, ist das "eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen ganz links und ganz rechts" (Merz).
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A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
bell.bz
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...