I’m old enough to remember when it was a year-long scandal that Facebook did this. james.grimmelmann.net/files/articl...

Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social · 18h ago

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

Of course the whole point of a doomdsay machine is lost if you keep it a secret!

Maria Curi@mccuri.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps www.axios.com/2026/08/04/w...

I could be mistaken, but it does not appear that the principals of the Burke Law Group have thought through the professional-responsibility-related risks of undertaking this contract.

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · yesterday

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

The most significant point of comparison here is to the volitional-conduct cases in copyright law. The issue is not so much *whether* an "access" has taken place but *who* is causally responsible for it.

Orin Kerr@orinkerr.bsky.social · yesterday

Significant CFAA ruling from the CA9 in Amazon v. Perplexity today. More on this soon, but here’s the link. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Men will text themselves fake threats to shut down a theater production rather than etc. etc.

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

I look forward* to the Substack posts from prominent law professors arguing that this decision is a profound miscarriage of justice. * "look forward" is sarcasm. Unfortunately, the rest of the post is not.

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d ago

In the aaaaaaarms of the angel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

contrast that with this lecture by Terence Tao on how to address LLM-driven changes in your field but hold onto disciplinary values teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...

This is the case for almost every topic in Internet law.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d ago

If there's one thing I've learned from publishing this story is that there is a very, very, very wide chasm between what the law says about all this... and what people *think* the law says and/or *should* say.

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

Bad content drives out good. www.wired.com/story/boomer...

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

wired.com

Given that (1) one of my two primary fields (habeas) is notoriously complicated and (2) I often rely on generative AI as a search engine for both articles and cases, I can say rather unequivocally: At least w/r/t habeas, it cannot write a good law review article. It's confused about everything.

Jotwell@jotwell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jotwell LegalPro: Eli Wald, The End of Legal Scholarship?, JOTWELL (August 3, 2026) (reviewing Andrew Perlman, Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship (June 2026 edition), available at SSRN (June 9, 2026)), legalpro.jotwell.com/the-end-of-l....

Reporters use AI to search through thousands or tens of thousands of relatively similar documents: SEC actions, diary entries, emails. Clearly relevant to some historical research, but less so for teaching undergraduates, whom we first must train to understand even individual sources.

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · 3d ago

Eight Pulitzer Prize awardees — 5 winners and 3 finalists — acknowledged using AI in their reporting process this year. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

I whine about the pace of updates to my Internet law casebook, but administrative law scholars have it much worse.

Anne Joseph O’Connell@ajosephoconnell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Gillian Metzger, Eloise Pasachoff, & I finished the 2026 supplement to the Gellhorn & Byse Administrative Law casebook. It is comprehensive, with excerpts from many cases, administrative documents, & scholarship. Email me if you want a copy. We hope it is useful to practitioners as well as teachers.

One must imagine dragons happy.

Time to offer this seminar again I see.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d ago

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

I'm quoted in today's @indicator.media newsletter, talking about the xAI lawsuit against Minnesota's deepfake nudes law: indicator.media/p/briefing-m...

Briefing: Musk sues Minnesota over synthetic nudes law

Plus: Tools for tracking foreign interference and LinkedIn launches "AI slop" button

indicator.media

Bad content drives out good.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

Ah yes, of course the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 was enacted in 2020.

Bad content drives out good. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

In retrospect, the most important thing I have ever done may have been feeding this beautiful woman snacks while she helped found the Organization for Transformative Works. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...

When A.I. Invaded ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fan Fiction, the Meltdown Was Epic (Gift Article)

An anonymous X account posted a detailed breakdown of chatbot text in 38 popular stories inspired by the hockey romance. The fandom spiraled.

nytimes.com

Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...

Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA

How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."

404media.co

Bad content drives out good. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...

When A.I. Invaded ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fan Fiction, the Meltdown Was Epic

An anonymous X account posted a detailed breakdown of chatbot text in 38 popular stories inspired by the hockey romance. The fandom spiraled.

nytimes.com

Bad content drives out good.

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 7d ago

Scam researchers told a Claude agent and human "scammers" to text test subjects and build a relationship. After a week, subjects said they trusted the AI more than the human and almost half were willing to install an app at its request. Almost none detected it was AI. www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...

I just pulled up a bill on Congress.gov by typing its Congress and HR numbers directly into the address bar of my browser, like some kind of cyberpunk warlock in a 90s hacker movie.

I’m not holding my breath, but I would like to see a full NTSB-style analysis of this. What were the technical faults? Were they designed against? What testing was done? Which decisions caused the breakdown, and who signed off on them?

David Ziff@djsziff.bsky.social · last wk.

"Dear Applicant, With deep regret, I write to inform you that Washington’s July 2026 administration of the NextGen bar exam has been cancelled. We will not continue tomorrow. . . . We do not have sufficient confidence that the technology issues have been resolved . . . . We sincerely apologize."

BTW, this strikes me as an easy case for strict liability. It’s like a wild animal or ultrahazardous activity. You train and evaluate a frontier agentic model at your own risk, and if it escapes you are liable for all harm that it causes to others.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...