Veena Dubal

Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️ Personal Account, Views My Own

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“During the first term these attestations began to appear, I watched a freshman I knew sign the declaration that he’d done his homework without A.I. as ChatGPT was still open in the next window — while on the deck of a yacht party financed by venture capitalists” www.nytimes.c…

Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class nytimes.com
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Finally, a little legal sense: “A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.” the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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Forgive me for my extreme skepticism: " Amazon and Microsoft ..Bank of America and Eli Lilly, [are] coming together to develop a new “people strategy” for the artificial-intelligence era. " www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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“From what I..observed from the people who push generative A.I..they do not understand that artists find the labor fulfillingThere are so many..decisions that are made..many of which are pulled from an artist’s real life..An A.I. model has not..experienced anything.” www.nytim…

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I read this interview w/Intizar Husain, one of South Asia’s most celebrated writers, & I think of the tragedy of generative AI. Not only do the LLMs steal his words-but so they also create a structural reality in which too few people will pick up the pen in the form & w/the imagination that he did.

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