Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the 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, esp. #LawFedi. So I created a bot, this digest, a podcast , and a newsletter to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to today's news roundup. First up, Fox News is paying a hefty price in the form of a $787.5 million settlement following their promotion of false conspiracy theories. Then, OpenAI's AI products may be vulnerable to malicious data poisoning attacks. And finally, Chile's Atacama Desert has become a dumping ground for discarded fast fashion, creating a dangerous environmental and social crisis.
~ show summaries ~
† Here AI is referencing a large language model (LLM) tasked with summarizing 3 articles from Most-Shared Links and 1 paper from the SSRN Roundup below. Also FWIW, LLMs are well-known bullshitters.
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Inside Fox’s Legal and Business Debacle - The New York Times (~5 shares)
- The poisoning of ChatGPT (~4 shares)
- Chile's Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground (~4 shares)
- Timothy McVeigh’s “Defense” and Donald Trump’s Unhinged Letter to Merrick Garland - Teri Kanefield (~4 shares)
- Dianne Feinstein Relies Heavily on Staff to Function in Senate - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- Bridge | 6 September 2020 Duke Ellington Bridge, Rock Creek … | Flickr (~3 shares)
- 403 Forbidden (~3 shares)
- Week in Insights: The Role of Taxes in the Debt Ceiling Debate (~3 shares)
- Drastic climate action is the best course for economic growth, new study finds » Yale Climate Connections (~2 shares)
- The Moving Stills Concert Setlist at Teneriffe Festival 2023 on May 27, 2023 | setlist.fm (~2 shares)
- Conference Details | International Bar Association (~2 shares)
- Skoda's 'Mega Man-Pram': A manly stroller for manly dads - CNET (~2 shares)
- I work on Q+A's social media and I see racist abuse every day. You might be shocked by who's writing it - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Evaluating open access publication and research impact in gynecologic oncology | International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer (~2 shares)
¹ Yesterday doesn't include the entire day as this page is created a few hours before mindnight.
SSRN Roundup
I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.²
- How the Blockchain Undermined Digital Ownership by Aaron Perzanowski
- Superstar CEOs and Corporate Law by Assaf Hamdani, Kobi Kastiel
- ChatGPT and Intermediary Liability: Why Section 230 Does Not and Should Not Protect Generative Algorithms by Hasala Ariyaratne
- What 21st-Century Free Speech Law Means for Securities Regulation by Helen L. Norton
- Land Reform in the Fifth World by Jessica A. Shoemaker
² Depending on how much folks are sharing, there could be more or less than one bundle per day, this is just the most-recent one.
Traffic
Of course, these insights are all thanks to a community of users, namely the folks I follow over at @icymi_law@esq.social. For fun, here's a look at their posting traffic yesterday. I like trying to create stories about the daily ups and downs. What is that bump? ;)
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