Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now.
Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.
Law ... Law never changes.
I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.
Imagine being one of those CEOs who laid off thousands over “AI efficiency” only for the AI to get dumber than a pile of bricks weeks later.
Given how tokens work, you’re paying more for a worse product. It now takes 5 minutes to be wrong which took 30 seconds for a right answer a few weeks ago.
Cannot wait for the caselaw ex post for this. Very silly.
I’m reading the Expanse again. Miller and Holden were being treated for lethal radiation exposure and the crew had to constantly override the automated medical systems which considered their survival probability so low that it initiated palliative care.
This is madness.
Og hvis de spirer kan du meget hurtigt lave flere!
you’re being hit by the surveillance, you’re being hit by the outsourcing, you’re being hit by the angry customer
Good idea. I get stuck on emails more than ever currently, and having a different medium for that would be great! I think a tablet is a good compromise for me too, though I would still stick to a keyboard then. Thanks for the idea Tamsin!!
I long for the days where I had a separate work phone for these things, including MFA. That and not using their apps for anything. It has stayed off for me on desktop, so far!
I may be slow, but I now notice they put CoPilot in Paint. I am in Paint, pasting things in (from my own files) to slides and other things. I do not need this agentic software.
The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
Safety Engineering being an evergreen science and totally should be an integral part of law (maybe Legal Engineering) part 104....
We are not in the "AI era." We are in the "source: trust me, bro" era.
LAWS0339 Internet Law and Policy Convenor: Professor Michael Veale, co-taught with Professor Orla Lynskey and Dr Tommaso Fia. Faculty of Laws, University College London. Academic Year 2025-6. Document Version December 2025. About the Module Seminar 1 Welcome to the Internet Seminar 2 How To Control the Internet Seminar 3 Blocking and Networked Rule-Making: the Domain Name System Seminar 4 Liability Shielding and Safe Harbours Seminar 5 Content Moderation Obligations Seminar 6 Fair Moderation and Takedown Abuse Seminar 7 Specific and General Monitoring Seminar 8 By-Design Platform Regulation Seminar 9 Verification: Ages, Names, Identities Seminar 10 Moderating Al: Models and Outputs Seminar 11 Privacy Online Seminar 12 Data Protection's Scope Seminar 13 Data Protection's Substance Seminar 14 Data Rights and Wrongs Seminar 15 Online Tracking: Cookies and Controllers Seminar 16 International Transfers of Personal Data Seminar 17 Emerging Models for Data Governance Seminar 18 Automated Decision-Making Seminar 19 Language Models & Personal Data Seminar 20 Can Law Change The Internet?
I’ve posted online our 2025-6 20 week Internet Law and Policy syllabus on our LLB programme, run by Orla Lynskey, Tommaso Fia and me. We hope it’s useful for other tech law educators! michae.lv/updated-inte...
A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.
We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)
www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...
pile of books and papers
Colleague after seeing my office desk: "Writing a book?"
Me: "Making a single footnote!"
On the eve of the Palm Sunday in Ukraine, demonic russia destroyed one more church.
The invaders again directly shelled the Greek-Sophia Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kherson, causing significant damage there.
Supporting russia means supporting the evil.
📸 Vitaliy Malaniy
Screencap from Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex showing Batou and a Tachikoma. The shot has been altered to show the Tachikoma handing Batou a copy of the preprint.
Sneak preview of a new preprint looking at adoption of Generative AI in the cybercrime underground: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545 we use a very large crime forum dataset to explore how cybercrime actors are adopting (or not) these tools - a phenomenon we call 'vibercrime'
if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated
Academics of the world, do with this info what you may. Even better, uninstall it from your devices 🧪
Nogle gange føler jeg mig lidt som Computercharlie (C. V. Jørgensens koncept)! Emails er en disciplin i sig selv.
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with."
— Ada Lovelace, 1843
Should have been the winning message of the elections in 2024. but unfortunately we were told it was the eggs.
If you think AI is stupid bullshit and you want to hear someone describe - in meticulously researched detail - exactly why it is stupid bullshit, have I got a podcast recommendation for you.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
I can do that (hope the proposal goes well!!), but I could not stop myself from starting on Mewgenics... The day it came out 😬
It is an absolutely joy to visit in early spring/late winter ❤️ There is something so comforting about the area just around it, also in deep summer in a caravan.
Almost none of the teenagers I chatted with admit to cheating with AI. When you ask teenagers about other students, however, you get a very different picture – 59% of teenagers told Pew that students at their school use AI to cheat while 34% said it happens extremely or very often. "I've had classmates who like literally yell at the teacher, 'Hey, if you don't come answer my question, I'm just gonna get AI to do this for me'," Rieban says. Cash, his 14-year-old brother, has similar stories. "In science class, we had to research a topic and write about it and one of the kids at my table had just completely copied what the AI told him," he says. "But then he couldn't read his own handwriting and he didn't even remember what he wrote."
‘59% of teenagers told Pew that students use AI to cheat, while 34% said it happens extremely or very often.’
God help this generation.
We have allowed Big Tech to convince us that ‘AI is revolutionizing the world’ and we’re sacrificing the development and well being of children to their Mammon.
