Thrilled to publish my latest article
BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION
with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech!
A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Does anyone else think that this monstrosity on the South Lawn is right out of the dystopian 1985 in Back to the Future? Biff even looks like Trump.
There's a major gap in content safety tooling: classifiers typically only score complete text. When you're working with generative AI, "complete text" means the user already saw it. That's too late.
So we built a streaming classifier that we're releasing today! Here's what we did and why.
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Everyone's talking about AI in campaigns, but it’s hard to measure.
That’s why Amanda Elliott, @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social, @ericwilson.bsky.social and myself are running a survey on how political pros are using AI.
If you work in campaigns and politics we need your input!
gforms.app/j5nTd6r
Missed this on Friday. Anthropic dropped an update on Claude's midterm preparedness including work on political bias evaluations, policy enforcement mechanisms, and influence operation resistance testing. www.anthropic.com/news/electio...
In Meta’s Q1 earnings call, they focused on how AI is making our feeds more personal.
It’s making me think about how we manage the tradeoffs between what's optimized for each of us individually might not be automatically good for us collectively.
anchorchange.substack.com/p/ai-optimiz...