GENERATORI DI LINGUAGGIO, DISINFORMAZIONE E PSEUDO-VERITÀ

Language generators are AI systems capable of creating and processing knowledge that bears a resemblance to natural language. Their capabilities make them the ideal tools for use in disinformation practices. At the same time, they are a technology that is set to change the way society accesses, processes and uses information. This prompts the emergence of intricate legal concerns, particularly given the potential for AI systems to produce erroneous, false, or seemingly accurate outputs. T...

Emotion Recognition and Personalized Adverting

This article examines emotion recognition systems (‘ERS’) and their use in the field of personalized advertising, adopting the perspective of EU law. The identification of an individual’s emotions through the use of ERS is a form of profiling based on the analysis of data relating to human biological characteristics, from which personal, even sensitive, information can be extracted. Such processing calls into question the concept of identification established by the General Data Protectio...

International networks in cultural industries: the case of agencies for opera artists in the immediate post-COVID-19 period

This study presents an empirical investigation into the internationalization processes within the opera performing arts industry, which represents a critical component of the broader creative industries. By utilizing data from Operabase, a comprehensive online database of opera-related information, we employ social network analysis to delineate the network of connections established between nations through the mobility of opera artists, mediated by the agencies that represent them. Moreover, ...

Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse