Month: February 2025
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Fact-checking or Community Notes? Why not both! – TechTakes
On Thursday, February 20, 2025 Elon Musk tweeted that X ’Community Notes” are “increasingly being gamed by governments and legacy media.” But back in January, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta is dropping fact-checking in favor of community notes: “We’ve seen this approach work on X.” So does it stop disinformation or not? And is it…
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The Inception of CITP’s Digital Witness Lab – A Retrospective with Surya Mattu
By David M. Krakow The issue of data privacy is hardly new. The term “right to privacy” was used as far back as an 1890 Harvard Law Review article addressing the threat posed by photography and newspapers. Fast forward 135 years, and the threat is more complicated and widespread. It seems at times that one…
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Paris AI Action Summit 2025: AI Regulation Perspectives – TechTakes
How much regulation is too much regulation? The Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit 2025 ended yesterday with the U.S. and UK refusing to sign a 100-nation statement of regulatory priorities, aiming at creating a global AI sector that is “human rights based, human-centric, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy,” and addresses global inequalities in AI capacity.…
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Balancing Free Speech & Safety: Envisioning a Human-Centered First Amendment for AI Regulation – TechTakes
How should the law handle manipulative AI content, like bots that encourage self-harm or give explicit instructions for it? The U.S. First Amendment protects speakers, and AI companies might justifiably claim its protections. But does the user of AI content have any right to a safe or truthful information environment, unpolluted by content aimed at…
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“It Wasn’t Me”: DeepSeek denies they stole anything, but is their model still a cost revolution? – TechTakes
DeepSeek R1 came out on January 20, 2025, and triggered strong reactions throughout the world. Nvidia stock