"The classic brain-IQ association largely disappeared when socioeconomic status was properly accounted for... children’s brains vary the most with SES, potentially through SES-dependent sleep deprivation and stress" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In the 1870s, a Bombay civil servant built a working solar steam engine. This piece shows how colonial officials and mill owners rejected the idea less on technical grounds than because it conflicted with imperial trade interests.
By @egholmlund.bsky.social in @theconversation.com
Thank god, someone has noticed that "AI content" is generated by AI providers, duh 😂 say hello, DSA.
Also consistent with ancient German autocomplete case law , remember Bettina Wulff? www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...
This paper (abstract below) on the lies the adtech/data broker industry tells courts has finally been published: yjolt.org/anonymity-co...
Joint work with Joel Reardon at U Calgary and Ken Bamberger and Laurel McGrane at Berkeley Law. 1/
Reuben Binns
If there's no safe harbor, it seems that search based on AI summaries isn't economically viable because of the liability issue.
A tool that randomly defames people is as defective a product as one that randomly cuts off fingers.
#lawsky
The government voices concern about the social media platform spreading hate but has hundreds of accounts that help make it a success
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Lilian Edwards
Thus announcing an effort to create a group of techies to form a computational mutual aid collective. The goal: help individuals and activist orgs leave US-based tech which is a threat vector. More info here: monroelab.com/2026/06/06/c...
It's also notable that while "AI" vendors wish to claim that their products "evaluate", LLMs are inherent epistemic nihilism and nobody knows how to automate the checking implied here by the court. If damages are enough to stop the defamation, it will be by removing this "feature" (good for society)
Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant.
"A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
Ciaran Martin
Serge Egelman
US-based tech companies dominate the global technology space, in commercial, government and personal markets (Microsoft, for example, commands approximately 70 percent of the Dutch corporate and go…
Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.
theconversation.com
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
Under the precedent of this German court, Google is liable for their "overviews", and thus MacIsaac would have a strong case. The logic is sound and hopefully courts in other countries will agree. (Such libel and defamation is occurring constantly because it's how the product works.)
Claes Holtzmann
Dwayne Monroe
Colleagues and I recently completed a study (to be published in the next few months in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology) in which we evaluated data brokers’ claims: we acquired several million rows from data brokers selling data they claimed to be anonymous and collected with consent.
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