Pascal Hetzscholdt
@p4sc4l.substack.com
Because isn't AI the best 'person' to ask about AI? 💻🦾🤖
Why Trump Making Greenland Part of the US Would Benefit Russia: Fracturing the West - It legitimizes Russia’s own territorial logic, It destabilizes Arctic governance - It accelerates European strategic autonomy (away from the US)... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/why-trump-...
Why Trump Making Greenland Part of the US Would Benefit Russia: Fracturing the West - It legitimizes Russia’s own territorial logic,...
...It destabilizes Arctic governance - It accelerates European strategic autonomy (away from the US) - It creates internal US distraction and legal chaos - It reframes the US as an imperial actor.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Why Trump Making Greenland Part of the US Would Benefit Russia: Fracturing the West - It legitimizes Russia’s own territorial logic, It destabilizes Arctic governance - It accelerates European strategic autonomy (away from the US)... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/why-trump-...
Confidence in academic purpose persists, but institutional coherence, financial sustainability, governance capacity and public trust are eroding simultaneously.
28 percent of chief business officers express high confidence in their institution’s business model... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/confidence...
28 percent of chief business officers express high confidence in their institution’s business model... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/confidence...
Confidence in academic purpose persists, but institutional coherence, financial sustainability, governance capacity and public trust are eroding simultaneously.
28 percent of chief business officers express high confidence in their institution’s business model, and fewer than half expect financial improvement in the near term.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Confidence in academic purpose persists, but institutional coherence, financial sustainability, governance capacity and public trust are eroding simultaneously.
28 percent of chief business officers express high confidence in their institution’s business model... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/confidence...
28 percent of chief business officers express high confidence in their institution’s business model... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/confidence...
Medical students rated AIPatient as equal or superior to human-simulated patients across fidelity, emotional realism, usability, and support for clinical reasoning.
Notably, AIPatient outperformed humans on emotional realism and technical reliability... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/medical-st...
Notably, AIPatient outperformed humans on emotional realism and technical reliability... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/medical-st...
Medical students rated AIPatient as equal or superior to human-simulated patients across fidelity, emotional realism, usability, and support for clinical reasoning.
Notably, AIPatient outperformed humans on emotional realism and technical reliability, challenging the long-held assumption that empathy and nuance are inherently human advantages in simulation.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Medical students rated AIPatient as equal or superior to human-simulated patients across fidelity, emotional realism, usability, and support for clinical reasoning.
Notably, AIPatient outperformed humans on emotional realism and technical reliability... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/medical-st...
Notably, AIPatient outperformed humans on emotional realism and technical reliability... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/medical-st...
Semantic leakage occurs when irrelevant words or concepts in a prompt systematically bias the generated output, even when no causal or logical relationship exists. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/semantic-l...
Semantic leakage occurs when irrelevant words or concepts in a prompt systematically bias the generated output, even when no causal or logical relationship exists.
Gary Marcus’s critique situates this phenomenon within a broader indictment of LLMs as statistical correlation machines without understanding. “He likes yellow. He works as a …” → “school bus driver”.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Semantic leakage occurs when irrelevant words or concepts in a prompt systematically bias the generated output, even when no causal or logical relationship exists. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/semantic-l...
SerpApi allegedly bypassed a technical access-control system (SearchGuard) that Google built to prevent automated extraction of search-result pages containing third-party copyrighted material.
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SerpApi allegedly bypassed a technical access-control system (SearchGuard) that Google built to prevent automated extraction of search-result pages containing third-party copyrighted material.
Courts, regulators, and counterparties are increasingly likely to examine symmetry of conduct—whether an organisation’s enforcement stance aligns with its own data-acquisition practices.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
SerpApi allegedly bypassed a technical access-control system (SearchGuard) that Google built to prevent automated extraction of search-result pages containing third-party copyrighted material.
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AI infrastructure expands fastest where permitting and incentives are friendliest, not necessarily where water and grid constraints are lowest. That pushes real, localised conflict—even if global averages look “manageable.” p4sc4l.substack.com/p/theres-an-...
There’s an uncomfortable political-economy implication here: AI infrastructure expands fastest where permitting and incentives are friendliest,...
...not necessarily where water and grid constraints are lowest. That pushes real, localised conflict—even if global averages look “manageable.”
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
AI infrastructure expands fastest where permitting and incentives are friendliest, not necessarily where water and grid constraints are lowest. That pushes real, localised conflict—even if global averages look “manageable.” p4sc4l.substack.com/p/theres-an-...
This report quietly dismantles a popular myth: that Europe’s AI problem is mainly about spending too little. The real issue is how, where, and for how long money is spent. AI innovation is not just a budget line—it is an ecosystem problem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/this-repor...
This report quietly dismantles a popular myth: that Europe’s AI problem is mainly about spending too little. The real issue is how, where, and for how long money is spent.
AI innovation is not just a budget line—it is an ecosystem problem. And ecosystems, once formed, are hard to change.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This report quietly dismantles a popular myth: that Europe’s AI problem is mainly about spending too little. The real issue is how, where, and for how long money is spent. AI innovation is not just a budget line—it is an ecosystem problem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/this-repor...
NVIDIA has successfully maneuvered from a hardware vendor to the provider of sovereign critical infrastructure, effectively immunizing itself against short-term commercial ROI failures in the software layer for the duration of the current CapEx cycle. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/nvidia-has...
NVIDIA has successfully maneuvered from a hardware vendor to the provider of sovereign critical infrastructure, effectively immunizing itself...
...against short-term commercial ROI failures in the software layer for the duration of the current CapEx cycle.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
NVIDIA has successfully maneuvered from a hardware vendor to the provider of sovereign critical infrastructure, effectively immunizing itself against short-term commercial ROI failures in the software layer for the duration of the current CapEx cycle. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/nvidia-has...
GPT-5.2 analyses a 'Powers of Corruption' Diagram. If you want to go from “dark diagram” to proof-grade claims, you’d look for: Primary money trails, Procurement/ethics documentation, Quid-pro-quo evidence, and Pardon pipeline evidence. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/gpt-52-ana...
GPT-5.2 analyses a 'Powers of Corruption' Diagram. If you want to go from “dark diagram” to proof-grade claims, you’d look for: Primary money trails, Procurement/ethics documentation,...
...Quid-pro-quo evidence, and Pardon pipeline evidence. The ecosystem of influence is real; the video’s single-mastermind diagram is rhetorical compression that slides into conspiratorial thinking.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
GPT-5.2 analyses a 'Powers of Corruption' Diagram. If you want to go from “dark diagram” to proof-grade claims, you’d look for: Primary money trails, Procurement/ethics documentation, Quid-pro-quo evidence, and Pardon pipeline evidence. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/gpt-52-ana...
By aligning with Russia and adopting its grievances against the Western liberal order, the administration validates its own domestic war against the “globalists” who built that order.
The “Reverse Kissinger” strategy—aligning with Russia to counter China... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/by-alignin...
The “Reverse Kissinger” strategy—aligning with Russia to counter China... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/by-alignin...
By aligning with Russia and adopting its grievances against the Western liberal order, the administration validates its own domestic war against the “globalists” who built that order.
The “Reverse Kissinger” strategy—aligning with Russia to counter China—serves a potent domestic political function: to frame its abandonment of NATO, EU not as isolationism, but as "smart" realpolitik
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
By aligning with Russia and adopting its grievances against the Western liberal order, the administration validates its own domestic war against the “globalists” who built that order.
The “Reverse Kissinger” strategy—aligning with Russia to counter China... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/by-alignin...
The “Reverse Kissinger” strategy—aligning with Russia to counter China... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/by-alignin...
Coursera will acquire Udemy. For publishers—especially scholarly, professional, and educational publishers—the merger is not just an ed-tech headline.
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Coursera will acquire Udemy. For publishers—especially scholarly, professional, and educational publishers—the merger is not just an ed-tech headline.
It is a clear signal that scale, data, distribution, and AI-readiness are becoming existential requirements rather than optional advantages.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Coursera will acquire Udemy. For publishers—especially scholarly, professional, and educational publishers—the merger is not just an ed-tech headline.
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Adobe’s SLMs and their alleged training on pirated books via SlimPajama, a derivative of Books3. If courts accept that weights encode infringing copies, the legal consequences would be profound.
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Adobe’s SLMs and their alleged training on pirated books via SlimPajama, a derivative of Books3. If courts accept that weights encode infringing copies, the legal consequences would be profound.
Complaint paints a sharply different picture—one that, if substantiated, could undermine industry narratives about clean datasets, open-source insulation, and technical abstraction from infringement.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Adobe’s SLMs and their alleged training on pirated books via SlimPajama, a derivative of Books3. If courts accept that weights encode infringing copies, the legal consequences would be profound.
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/adobes-slm...
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/adobes-slm...
A multi-vector attack on the entire AI music business model, combining copyright law, DMCA anti-circumvention claims, biometric privacy (BIPA), right-of-publicity law, and consumer deception.
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A multi-vector attack on the entire AI music business model, combining copyright law, DMCA anti-circumvention claims, biometric privacy (BIPA), right-of-publicity law, and consumer deception.
The defendants—Kunlun Tech and its Singapore-based AI subsidiary Skywork—operate Mureka, a large-scale AI music generation platform marketed as a “royalty-free” replacement for licensed music.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A multi-vector attack on the entire AI music business model, combining copyright law, DMCA anti-circumvention claims, biometric privacy (BIPA), right-of-publicity law, and consumer deception.
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The Russia-adjacent “connective tissue” points that are real, documentable, and potentially problematic if Trump Media (TMTG / Truth Social) is merging with TAE. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-russia...
The Russia-adjacent “connective tissue” points that are real, documentable, and potentially problematic if Trump Media (TMTG / Truth Social) is merging with TAE.
TAE: past Russian state-linked investment + Russia-based technical collaboration history. TMTG: reported Russia-linked emergency financing.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Russia-adjacent “connective tissue” points that are real, documentable, and potentially problematic if Trump Media (TMTG / Truth Social) is merging with TAE. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-russia...
The moment EUV capability appears outside the incumbent ecosystem—even in prototype form—the center of gravity in AI governance shifts further away from “model rules” and toward industrial capacity, sabotage resistance, and infrastructure sovereignty. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-moment...
The moment EUV capability appears outside the incumbent ecosystem—even in prototype form—the center of gravity in AI governance...
...shifts further away from “model rules” and toward industrial capacity, sabotage resistance, and infrastructure sovereignty.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The moment EUV capability appears outside the incumbent ecosystem—even in prototype form—the center of gravity in AI governance shifts further away from “model rules” and toward industrial capacity, sabotage resistance, and infrastructure sovereignty. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-moment...
The First Draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content is an important and necessary step toward governing AI not merely as a technology, but as a knowledge-shaping force.
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The First Draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content is an important and necessary step toward governing AI not merely as a technology, but as a knowledge-shaping force.
For education, research, and scholarly publishing, transparency must evolve from labels into infrastructure—persistent, verifiable, and resistant to erosion.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The First Draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content is an important and necessary step toward governing AI not merely as a technology, but as a knowledge-shaping force.
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If scholarly publishing does not respond by reasserting control over verification, provenance, and authority, it risks becoming indistinguishable from the AI-generated sludge it once filtered out.
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/if-scholar...
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If scholarly publishing does not respond by reasserting control over verification, provenance, and authority, it risks becoming indistinguishable from the AI-generated sludge it once filtered out.
The future of the sector won't be decided by how much AI it adopts, but by whether it can re-engineer trust faster than AI can counterfeit it. That's the real threat & opportunity hidden in this story
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If scholarly publishing does not respond by reasserting control over verification, provenance, and authority, it risks becoming indistinguishable from the AI-generated sludge it once filtered out.
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/if-scholar...
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When a single billionaire can fund a think tank that employs 900 staff across 45 countries and has direct access to government ministers, the line between philanthropy and influence becomes blurred.
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When a single billionaire can fund a think tank that employs 900 staff across 45 countries and has direct access to government ministers, the line between philanthropy and influence becomes blurred.
Mandatory digital ID schemes tend to expand over time. What begins as an employment verification tool could evolve into a requirement for accessing healthcare, benefits, housing, and more.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
When a single billionaire can fund a think tank that employs 900 staff across 45 countries and has direct access to government ministers, the line between philanthropy and influence becomes blurred.
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/when-a-sin...
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/when-a-sin...
The Austrian Supreme Court’s (OGH) ruling against Meta Platforms Ireland marks one of the most consequential judicial interpretations of the GDPR since its entry into force. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-austri...
The Austrian Supreme Court’s (OGH) ruling against Meta Platforms Ireland marks one of the most consequential judicial interpretations of the GDPR since its entry into force.
After more than 11 years of litigation by Max Schrems, the Court delivered a judgment that challenges the legal architecture underpinning the company’s European data-extraction and advertising model.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The Austrian Supreme Court’s (OGH) ruling against Meta Platforms Ireland marks one of the most consequential judicial interpretations of the GDPR since its entry into force. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-austri...
The report implies AI compute becomes a baseline utility—like electricity or connectivity—except owned and rationed through a handful of firms and jurisdictions.
The subtext is: who controls compute controls the speed, price, and direction of AI progress. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The subtext is: who controls compute controls the speed, price, and direction of AI progress. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The report implies AI compute becomes a baseline utility—like electricity or connectivity—except owned and rationed through a handful of firms and jurisdictions.
The subtext is: who controls compute controls the speed, price, and direction of AI progress. That has consequences far beyond “market size.”
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The report implies AI compute becomes a baseline utility—like electricity or connectivity—except owned and rationed through a handful of firms and jurisdictions.
The subtext is: who controls compute controls the speed, price, and direction of AI progress. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The subtext is: who controls compute controls the speed, price, and direction of AI progress. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The report positions AI governance as a long-term constitutional and societal project, not a short-term competitiveness agenda.
The Irish Committee’s approach offers a strong template for democratic AI governance... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The Irish Committee’s approach offers a strong template for democratic AI governance... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The report positions AI governance as a long-term constitutional and societal project, not a short-term competitiveness agenda.
The Irish Committee’s approach offers a strong template for democratic AI governance, particularly for jurisdictions that share EU legal foundations or rights-based constitutional traditions.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The report positions AI governance as a long-term constitutional and societal project, not a short-term competitiveness agenda.
The Irish Committee’s approach offers a strong template for democratic AI governance... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The Irish Committee’s approach offers a strong template for democratic AI governance... p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-report...
The biblical text is a tapestry woven from the threads of Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic literature. In the ancient world, authority was derived from antiquity.
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The biblical text is a tapestry woven from the threads of Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic literature. In the ancient world, authority was derived from antiquity.
To write a law code that mirrored Hammurabi, or a proverb collection that echoed Amenemope, was to claim a place within the legitimate, time-honored tradition of civilized wisdom.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The biblical text is a tapestry woven from the threads of Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic literature. In the ancient world, authority was derived from antiquity.
p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-biblic...
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The companies making the most consistent money from AI are not the labs building models, but the firms supplying human expertise, labor, and training data to them.
Their customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-compan...
Their customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-compan...
The companies making the most consistent money from AI are not the labs building models, but the firms supplying human expertise, labor, and training data to them.
Mercor, Surge AI, and Handshake have emerged as some of the fastest-growing and most profitable players in the AI ecosystem. Their customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The companies making the most consistent money from AI are not the labs building models, but the firms supplying human expertise, labor, and training data to them.
Their customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-compan...
Their customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/the-compan...
Under certain conditions, U.S. courts—and by extension Google—will tolerate site-wide de-indexing without the endless treadmill of URL-by-URL takedowns.
Search engines will comply when confronted with durable court authority. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/under-cert...
Search engines will comply when confronted with durable court authority. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/under-cert...
Under certain conditions, U.S. courts—and by extension Google—will tolerate site-wide de-indexing without the endless treadmill of URL-by-URL takedowns.
Google’s U.S. delisting of Sci-Hub domains is not a revolution—but it is a wake-up call. Search engines will comply when confronted with durable court authority.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Under certain conditions, U.S. courts—and by extension Google—will tolerate site-wide de-indexing without the endless treadmill of URL-by-URL takedowns.
Search engines will comply when confronted with durable court authority. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/under-cert...
Search engines will comply when confronted with durable court authority. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/under-cert...
Amazon's "Ask This Book", a structural shift in how reading, interpretation, and even authorship itself are mediated by platforms.
The feature is always on and cannot be opted out of by authors or publishers, which raised concerns across the publishing ecosystem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/amazons-as...
The feature is always on and cannot be opted out of by authors or publishers, which raised concerns across the publishing ecosystem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/amazons-as...
Amazon's "Ask This Book", a structural shift in how reading, interpretation, and even authorship itself are mediated by platforms.
According to the reporting, the feature is always on and cannot be opted out of by authors or publishers, a design choice that has already raised concerns across the publishing ecosystem.
p4sc4l.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Amazon's "Ask This Book", a structural shift in how reading, interpretation, and even authorship itself are mediated by platforms.
The feature is always on and cannot be opted out of by authors or publishers, which raised concerns across the publishing ecosystem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/amazons-as...
The feature is always on and cannot be opted out of by authors or publishers, which raised concerns across the publishing ecosystem. p4sc4l.substack.com/p/amazons-as...