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Not ready for the bench: LLM legal interpretation is unstable and out of step with human judgments (Purushothama, Waldon, Schneider, 2025): “Legal interpretation frequently involves assessing how a legal text, as understood by an órdinary’ speaker of the language, applies to the set of facts characterizing a legal dispute in the U.S. judicial system. Recent …
The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …
Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals Known as Dearly Departed Datasets for Halloween 2025 – Last updated 12/1/2025 – This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025. This list does not include routine changes and terminations of datasets, but rather strives to …
Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely …
Literary Hub – “…There were times our definition of “small press” was tested. Was Tin House still a small press after it was acquired by Zando in March? Yes, we decided, since Zando was not a big five publisher. Were university presses that published well over 50 books yearly small presses? We decided they were …
Christopher Butler – “After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe. The best case scenario is that AI is just not as valuable as those who invest in it, make it, and sell it …
404 Media: “It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than one million home sale listings on its site. The website began publishing climate risk ratings last year using data from the risk-modeling company First Street. The …
Washington Post [and The Hill] – “A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports the president disagrees with, coming after the president has voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to …
Fast Company – Traditional search engines are still the backbone of the online information ecosystem, but searching has shifted in measurable ways with ChatGPT: “Three years ago, if someone needed to fix a leaky faucet or understand inflation, they usually did one of three things: typed the question into Google, searched YouTube for a how-to …
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