Our paper on the Open Source Challenge, which argues in favour of responsible release standards (with a focus on open source, but applicable to Gen AI as a whole): awo.cdn.ngo/media/docume...
Politico's reporting on Anthropic: www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
Anthropic postponing Mythos demonstrates how responsible release will be increasingly important as Gen AI gets more capable. Cybersecurity risks is just one of Gen AI issue that can mitigated with staged release and external input into development (as we argue in a 2024 paper)
The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere.
I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings:
1. one account
2. that works with a bunch of apps, and
3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.
Agreed! Though to be fair to the legislators in question, drafting on DSA, OSA and AI Act all began before 2023, i.e., before the Gen AI boom
We hope that this can be useful in informing ongoing work on the protection of minors in the EU and UK, including the upcoming DFA and the AI Omnibus, and the enforcement of the DSA, AI Act and OSA. 8/8
Beyond that we identified gaps around issues such as child rights impact assessments, model repository moderation, the standardisation of AI-CSAM content reports, and child safety experts’ involvement in model development. 7/8
Even adults can be poorly equipped to understand and talk about Gen AI risks with children. The research also informed the creation of NSPCC resources for parents and teachers: www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-chil... 6/8
This is something AWO also discussed in a separate paper, titled “Generative AI’s Open Source Challenge.” awo.cdn.ngo/media/docume... 5/8
Open source AI is indeed a major gap we identified, given its use in the creation of AI-CSAM, and the barriers linked to enforcing solutions on non-commercial model developers. 4/8
Importantly, that means that these laws’ content moderation, risk assessment and risk mitigation provisions don’t apply to standalone Gen AI systems, including downloadable/“open source” models. 3/8
Current online safety laws only partially apply to Gen AI. To fall in-scope of the DSA, Gen AI systems must qualify as search engines. For the OSA, they must be imbedded with user-to-user services. 2/8
New paper alert 🚨: “Generative AI and Child Safety: What are the risks and how can we solve them?”, an NSPCC/AWO study, has just been published! It describes some important gaps in EU and UK legislation relating to risks that children face from Gen AI. learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1drdec... 1/8
Welp. The internet had a nice run.
Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.
"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."
We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Can't imagine why this would be a problem at all
On a Wednesday!?
My colleagues @laurelinelmn.bsky.social and @mathver.bsky.social shared some thoughts on the DSA's application to OpenAI with TPP! See also their great analysis on the topic here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Europe needs an EU Sovereign Tech Fund. Open source software powers everything from healthcare to energy grids, yet it's chronically underfunded. Read the Public letter.
openfuture.eu/blog/public-...
New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking:
📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years
💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs
🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
Is it legal for publishers to force you to "consent" to a data free-for-all as payment for entering their sites & apps?
No.
Over the summer we have been talking to EU data watchdogs, detailing the case law and enforcement decisions.
www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
We'll be at #PrivacyCamp25 tomorrow! Join our colleague @lutecia.bsky.social at 9:55 to discuss all things strategic litigation. Our colleagues @nickbotton.bsky.social and @laurelinelmn.bsky.social will also be around, come chat with us!
More Google news. EC making itself clear here. "The Commission has already signalled its preliminary view that only the divestment by Google of part of its services would address the situation
of inherent conflicts of interest, but it first wishes to hear and assess Google's proposal." 1/2
since Google rolled out AI Overviews in your search results, median year-over-year referral traffic from Google Search to premium publishers down 10%
- Non-news brands down 14%
- News brands down 7%
- Yr/yr declines outnumber gains two-to-one
1/2
⚠️ Child Rights Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for a Rights‐Respecting Digital Environment - just published o/a by @Livingstone_S @Kruakae_Noony #DigitalFutures4Children
@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
NEW: The final draft of the AI Act's code of practice for general-purpose AI models is finally out.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
If you're going to #CPDP, don't miss the most important panel on online ads regulation that you'll ever attend! We'll talk about gaps that remain and how to fill them, covering privacy, transparency, DMA and DSA issues, and more!
Great to see @kzenner.bsky.social here, who just co-authored (co-inspired?) a great paper on a blueprint for European digital sovereignty. Added him here bsky.app/starter-pack...