Smarter and more transparent food ecosystem.

[eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu]

Smarter and more transparent food ecosystem.

Our new AI-powered TraceMap tool will keep fraudulent and contaminated food off your local supermarket’s shelves.

By monitoring the agri-food supply chain in real-time, it will:

🚫 Spot risks with improved screening accuracy
🦠 Track shipments in seconds to stop foodborne disease outbreaks
🛒 Remove non-compliant products from the market faster

Better data. Faster recalls. Safer meals.

Protecting you.

🔗 https://link.europa.eu/pbt6XB

[toge@mas.to]

@EUCommission
One of these days I am actually going to snap

[witchescauldron@kolektiva.social]

@EUCommission

This is funding poured down the drain and thus corruption on the part of the people who funded this at the #EU and the company that asked and excepted the funding.

#KISS #funding #EU #techshit

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@EUCommission huh!
Depending on how well it works, sounds kinda neat actually
(the actual link about the tool instead of the vague post. Has a video of the tool: https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/acn/tracemap_en )

Shame they use an AI voice for the video though... just pay a human to voice it atleast...

[7heo@ieji.de]

@EUCommission

Nice. Can you please add *chatcontrol* and the *digital omnibus* to the list? There are comprehensive studies that show they are highly carcinogenic, cause diabetes, contain several life threatening bacteria with a high chance of causing chronic infections, and are overall extremely dangerous for human consumption.

[suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com]

@EUCommission >AI powered
You mean most of the time it'll false positive good food and also most of the time false negative contaminated food?

[zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith]

@EUCommission lol, lmao

[eickot@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission this means also stop importing products from countries with less restrictions on the farmers? or we will still import shit from other countries without any verification?

[gsymon@mstdn.social]

@witchescauldron @EUCommission

So how do you think it was 'funded'?

It seems like a good idea to me and in principle, a good way to use AI.

[lookwhatthecatdraggedin@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission Why would you use AI as a marketing feature, it makes the product look worse, at least here on Mastodon

[katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org]

@EUCommission

No it won't. Last year, you have publicly committed to sacrificing our protection:

»Recognizing the importance of continued engagement to resolve longstanding concerns, the European Union and the United States commit to work together to address non-tariff barriers affecting trade in food and agricultural products, including streamlining requirements for sanitary certificates for pork and dairy products.« (emphasis added)

Happy "streamlining", i.e., submission to #US #food "standards", and installing the rotten bullshitter called "AI" in the food inspection chain!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/08/joint-statement-on-a-united-states-european-union-framework-on-an-agreement-on-reciprocal-fair-and-balanced-trade/

[domdel@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission I don't trust E.U about food.

[witchescauldron@kolektiva.social]

@gsymon @EUCommission

Click some links and feedback here please.

[ki@chaos.social]

@gsymon @witchescauldron @EUCommission
in this case, the bullshit buzzword "AI-powered" means "running data through a statistical model"... which is utter bullshit for this use case, results in wasted false positives and untrustworthy false negatives and just makes everything shittier

[ki@chaos.social]

@gsymon @witchescauldron @EUCommission
and of course, this means false security, i.e. less manual and reliable food inspections

[witchescauldron@kolektiva.social]

@ki @gsymon @EUCommission

Also, its simply corruption feeding money to the #AI companies to build #techshit to as you say undermine democratic institutions we need. Its mess to compost and as part of that shovelling prosecuting the #EU corruption flow might help.

[ki@chaos.social]

@witchescauldron @gsymon @EUCommission
I'd say, labeling something as "AI" doesn't necessarily mean it's actively funneling money towards LLM bullshit... but we've seen the bullshit EU states are willing to do for the sake of corruption

[witchescauldron@kolektiva.social]

@ki @gsymon @EUCommission

Someone would need to click some links to see ;)

[rachelthornsub@famichiki.jp]

@EUCommission
This is embarrassing. Read the room. Not many people on the Fediverse are going to be impressed by "AI powered." On the contrary, by putting LLMs into the mix, you guarantee that the results will be unreliable, as well as damaging to the environment.

[ki@chaos.social]

@witchescauldron @gsymon @EUCommission
from all that I can find, this tool is primarily "AI" as in "statistical analysis", one of the many past use cases where this buzzword label used to be applied. But the intention for the marketing is clear: "AI" is a popular bullshit buzzword, so let's ride the hype wave. This use case isn't much less shitty than your usual slop machines though