Ashar, Sameer M. and Barton, Benjamin H. and Madison, Michael J. and Moran, Rachel F., The Futures of Law, Lawyers, and Law Schools: A Dialogue (August 29, 2023). University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Forthcoming, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2023-34, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2023
The news will not find you on TikTok
Nieman Lab: “Given the amount of attention TikTok has swallowed up from anyone under the age of 30, we might expect it to be a more obsessive focus of news organizations in their efforts to attract younger and more engaged audiences. But TikTok has shown itself to be rather inhospitable to news: It removes links that publishers could use… Continue Reading
Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet
The Verge: Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig – After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d think about AI and TikTok — and he has surprising thoughts about balancing free speech with protecting democracy. Nilay Patel: “…Larry and I talked about the current and recurring controversy around react videos on… Continue Reading
Meet ‘New Elites’ Who Control Twitter’s Israel-Hamas News
The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the most influential accounts engaged in Hamas/Israel discourse. Oct 20, 2023 RAPID RESEARCH REPORT University of Washington Center for an Informed Public: “Since the first news of the attack on Israel by Hamas, we have seen anecdotal reports from users of X (formerly Twitter) that the platform has become… Continue Reading
Beyond Memorization: Violating Pivacy Via Inference With Large Language Models
PrePrint, arXiv, October 11, 2023. Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy Via Inference With Large Language Models. Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Mislav Balunovic, Martin Vechev, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. “Current privacy research on large language models (LLMs) primarily focuses on the issue of extracting memorized training data. At the same time, models’ inference capabilities have… Continue Reading
77 incredibly useful tips for Google apps: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and beyond
Fast Company: “I’ll let you in on a little secret: Google’s apps and services are absolutely overflowing with buried treasures. More than any other tech company, Google loves tucking interesting options and features into out-of-the-way places. Some of the best elements of Gmail, Google Calendar, and other popular productivity tools are almost completely out of… Continue Reading
The yearly issue of Air Street Capital’s Nathan Benaich slide deck
State of AI Report – Produced by Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital team: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary field of science and engineering whose goal is to create intelligent machines. We believe that AI will be a force multiplier on technological progress in our increasingly digital, data-driven world. This is because everything around… Continue Reading
AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans
Solove, Daniel J. and MATSUMI, Hideyuki, AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans (October 16, 2023). 96 Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2024), Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4603992 “This Essay critiques a set of arguments often made to justify the use of AI and algorithmic decision-making technologies. These arguments all share a common premise – that human decision-making is… Continue Reading
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
Via LLRX – Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate over the efficacy of crime prediction software. Geolitica, known as PredPol until a 2021… Continue Reading
The Bird Migration Explorer
Audubon – “The Bird Migration Explorer captures the joy of birds and the wonder of migration through a series of interactive maps built using the latest and best-available migration and conservation science. Using this unique digital platform, visitors to the Bird Migration Explorer can learn about the full annual cycle for 458 species of migratory… Continue Reading
Share of Europe’s territory at high risk of fire has doubled in the last 50 years
European Data Journalism: “Since 1971, the share of Europe that experiences high or higher weather risk has risen from 20% to almost 40%. But there are big differences between countries. Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy come up every year when we talk about major forest fires. You don’t have to look far back to remember… Continue Reading
What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis?
Scientific America [read free]: “The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, but in May officials ended its designation as a public health emergency. So it’s now fair to ask if all our efforts to slow the spread of the disease—from masking, to hand washing, to working from home—were worth it. One group of scientists has seriously muddied… Continue Reading
