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Any bets on whose companies are up next for a major three-letter-agency audit? The fact that this seems not just plausible but inevitable is both terrifying and kind of funny.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Google plans to offer Gemini to US children under 13 without verifiable parental consent (parents can opt out if they use Family Link). As @epicprivacy.bsky.social notes, this seems like a blatant COPPA violation. I don't think Google would have had the gall to do this when Khan headed the FTC.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Signal’s new Windows update prevents the system from capturing screenshots of chats

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

I guess basically all US regulation relates to China now. Or "woke" stuff. Don't get me wrong—doing business with Chinese companies can present real risks to human rights and security But for a few years we had tech enforcement (from the DoJ and FTC at least) that wasn't quite so nakedly political

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This is beyond terrible. A speculative fiction novel with this plot would be so cartoonish and trite as to be unreadable. And I've enjoyed some pretty hackneyed novels.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

This is what happens when lobbyists ask for “clarity” in a regulation.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

California's once pithy (and strict) definition of "automated decisionmaking technology" is on its way to becoming War and Peace. "Replace or substantially facilitate [humans]" becomes "replace or substantially replace" (?)—and the billable hours will rack up when figuring out all those exemptions.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Which one?

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a post I wrote back when GPT could barely strong a limerick together. Note that it is positively *littered* with em-dashes. Have people forgotten that Large Language Models are trained on stuff *we wrote*?

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

This is not what I would call a "tightening"... www.theverge.com/news/658602/...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Surely these functions should be nowhere near each other, rather than combined into a single field...

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

The UK government has more plans for the ICO. From its recent paper "New approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth" www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

Microsoft's "Copilot Gaming Experience" is a generative AI version of Quake 2, trained on gameplay data, that generates as you "play" it. Let's just say there is a LONG way to go before this is anything other than research a project. copilot.microsoft.com/wham?feature...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Help me Bluesky Quite recently (NOT years ago) Max Schrems suggested that bringing a "Schrems III" against the EU-US DPF would be too expensive. It was in an interview or panel or something and has not been widely reported. WHERE DID I SEE THIS I need it.

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

Genuine question—if Ghibli style 4o images violate copyright law, could these people asserting this while sharing such images for commercial purposes be liable under copyright law? I expect either "no", "it depends", or my preferred answer on AI and copyright—we'll see what the courts say.

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

A bad idea in the worst possible circumstances. How can ANY Democrat think it's a good idea to team up with Trump on free expression?

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

The AI Act should not distract us from the powerful and firmly established human rights protections that are already in place.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

FTC removes posts critical of Big Tech from its website

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments