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Eight (or so) Questions to Ask about the ChatGPT Warrant
Earlier this week, the indefatigable Thomas Brewster at Forbes, a journalist who’s been covering the digital surveillance beat for years, reported on a search w…
Artificial Intelligence
"Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving
Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as th…
The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from t…
User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies
Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality…
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Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
A Stanford study reveals that leading AI companies are pulling user conversations for training, highlighting privacy risks and a need for clearer policies. Las…
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Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?
It seems like every day brings another news story about a lawyer caught unwittingly submitting a court filing that cites nonexistent cases hallucinated by AI. T…
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How Congress Could Stifle The Onslaught of AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
“Generative AI models offered by major AI companies are used by tens of millions of people every day, and we should encourage them to make their models as safe…
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Is Trust & Safety Dead, or Just Evolving?
Is this the end of Trust & Safety? Is anyone left to defend it? It had a golden age, but it appears to be over. In its place is a grim realpolitick, or, som…
Taking Scale Seriously in Technology Law
Issues of scale—the relationship between the amount of an activity and its associated costs and benefits—permeate discussions around law and technologies. Indee…
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 431: The Many Problems With The FTC’s Pornhub Settlement
Last week, we published three separate posts that looked at the FTC’s recent settlement with Aylo, the parent company of multiple adult websites including, most…
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Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content
* Some xAI workers said they've encountered NSFW content, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material. * Grok has several provocative functions. Ex…
Promote the Progress, Legalize Learning
Learning—by brains or machines—is not a copyright-relevant act. This essay argues that treating training as presumptively infringing (rescued, sometimes, by fai…