EFF: “In early October, a bad actor claimed they were selling account details from the genetic testing service, 23andMe, which included alleged data of one million users of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and another 100,000 users of Chinese descent. By mid-October this expanded out to another four million more general accounts. The data includes display name,… Continue Reading
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The Futures of Law, Lawyers, and Law Schools: A Dialogue
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
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
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
Public Case Access
“This new Public Case Access site was created as a result of a collaboration between the Harvard Law School Library and Ravel Law. The company supported the library in its work to digitize 40,000 printed volumes of cases, comprised of over forty million pages of court decisions, including original materials from cases that predate the… Continue Reading
Skimming, scanning, scrolling – the age of deep reading is over
Financial Times (read free): “…Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Stunning numbers of people with years of schooling are effectively illiterate. Admittedly, nostalgics have been whining about new media since 1492, but today’s whines have an evidential basis. To quote this month’s Ljubljana Reading Manifesto, signed by publishers’ and library associations,… Continue Reading
