Michael Veale

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Professor of Technology Law and Policy at University College London (#UCL), Faculty of Laws.
Not resigned to today's technological power structures (yet). Researching at the intersection of emerging technologies, law and policy; data protection; machine learning; PETs and cryptographic infrastructures; platform and infrastructural regulation. 🏳️‍🌈

administrating a small exoplanet in the fediverse .

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sophia scam robot maker in the epstein files? say it ain’t so!

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xlcmx6ebvwafkuufwnisvrrt/post/3mezudwb6e22k

As you’re watching a Disney film at Christmas, raise a glass to Disney’s lawyers who, in Florida’s 2021 social media law, had a blanket exemption placed in to except any theme park owner from the definition of ‘social media platform’ www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/BillText/er/HTML
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf
Apple Mail users: annoyed by Outlook spamy 'reactions'? I made a tool to prohibit ppl from reacting to your emails. Drag it into your applications folder; click then enable it in System Settings (it's not notarized); enable in Mail settings->Extensions. https://files.michae.lv/apps/badreaction.zip
Academics: Grammarly now inserts citations for uncited paragraphs as a service. Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract. https://www.theverge.com/news/760508/grammarly-ai-agents-help-students-educators
In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall
Has Oxford University Press validated whether such quizzes are pedagogically useful, or even accurate and faithful? Will they run them by the authors? Or is the suscription cost to Law Trove (hosts the most widely used UK legal UG textbooks, ÂŁ50K+ a year per institution) not enough for that?
for what it's worth: our tiny weeny server's statement on the front regarding access by children and regulatory obligations. yes, i know this is only possible to say for small invite-only servers.