Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
- Trump Says He Is Sending Hospital Ship to Greenland 🔥🔥🔥It wasn’t clear what prompted the decision or nor was it clear why the people of Greenland need a hospital ship.
- Opinion | Shocker! SCOTUS Schools POTUS 🔥🔥
- U.S. Kills 3 in Latest Boat Strike 🔥
- US group allegedly ran fake law firm and court proceedings to scam immigrants 🔥Federal prosecutors have arraigned four people in New Jersey, with a fifth at large in Colombia ...
- In Gorsuch’s Homage to Legislative Power, a Subtle Reproach of a Neutered Congress 🔥
- Donor suspended from Tories pays £50,000 for dinner with Kemi Badenoch 🔥Exclusive: Rami Ranger, who was suspended temporarily in 2023, makes successful bid at party fundraising event ...
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- The Pernicious Myth of Voter ID Laws: Stacey Abrams & Joyce Vance Explain 🔥🔥A recording from Joyce Vance's live video ...
- NEWS: Dozens of Companies Sue Trump to Get Tariff Refunds as DOJ Caught Trying to Scrub Epstein Files that Could be Used as Blackmail Against Trump 🔥🔥Good morning and happy Saturday, everyone.
- Watching the Olympics in Ukraine 🔥One world enables another ...
- Important Saturday Night News Update Good evening, everyone.
- Nigel Farage Is Losing the Plot The Gorton and Denton by-election could be the moment when the Reform UK leader's meteoric rise finally starts crashing down ...
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago† 🔥🔥🔥The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
- Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked† 🔥🔥🔥In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
- Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.
- Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis† AI Injury Attorneys" target the chatbot design itself.
- First AIPAC, Now AI PACs AI and crypto PACs are spending millions in Chicago-area midterm races.
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
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AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- CheckIfExist: Detecting Citation Hallucinations in the Era of AI-Generated Content† 🔥🔥The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in academic workflows has introduced unprecedented challenges to bibliographic integrity, particularly through reference hallucination -- the generati...
- AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence with Human Games† 🔥🔥Rigorously evaluating machine intelligence against the broad spectrum of human general intelligence has become increasingly important and challenging in this era of rapid technological advance. Conven...
- Narrow fine-tuning erodes safety alignment in vision-language agents† 🔥ArXiv link for Narrow fine-tuning erodes safety alignment in vision-language agents ...
- Artificial intelligence is algorithmic mimicry: why artificial "agents" are not (and won't be) proper agents† What is the prospect of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)? I investigate this question by systematically comparing living and algorithmic systems, with a special focus on the notion of "agency." There are three fundamental differences to consider: (1) Living systems are autopoietic, that is, self-manufacturing, and therefore able to set their own intrinsic goals, while algorithms exist in a computational environment with target functions that are both provided by an external agent. (2) Living systems are embodied in the sense that there is no separation between their symbolic and physical aspects, while algorithms run on computational architectures that maximally isolate software from hardware. (3) Living systems experience a large world, in which most problems are ill-defined (and not all definable), while algorithms exist in a small world, in which all problems are well-defined. These three differences imply that living and algorithmic systems have very different capabilities and limitations. In particular, it is extremely unlikely that true AGI (beyond mere mimicry) can be developed in the current algorithmic framework of AI research. Consequently, discussions about the proper development and deployment of algorithmic tools should be shaped around the dangers and opportunities of current narrow AI, not the extremely unlikely prospect of the emergence of true agency in artificial systems.
- Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models In this paper we explore hallucinations and related capability limitations in LLMs and LLM-based agents from the perspective of computational complexity. We show that beyond a certain complexity, LLMs...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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