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The Key to Spotting Deepfakes is Deliberately Slowing Down
In a second, most people can spot obvious AI distortions. Given a few more seconds, we get even better at it. Slowing down to look at it instead of immediately reacting impacts our ability to spot falsehoods.
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DAA Launches AI-Focused Review of Interest-Based Advertising Self-Regulatory Principles
On June 4, 2025, the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”), the self-regulatory body that sets and enforces privacy standards for digital advertising, announced it is launching a process to determine if it is necessary to issue new guidance to address how the DAA’s Self-Regulatory Principles apply to the use of artificial intelligence systems and tools that
The GC AI CEO
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 22nd episode of the 2025 season of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!
No More Secrets: Why Radical Transparency Is AI’s Secret Weapon
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), is a leading voice for transparency and openness in artificial intelligence. In a field increasingly dominated by closed models and proprietary data, Farhadi argues that only radical transparency-full disclosure of model architecture, training data, and evaluation methods-can build the public
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 235: Teresa Scassa on the Alberta Clearview AI Ruling That Could Have a Big Impact on Privacy and Generative AI
The privacy concerns with Clearview AI sparked investigations and court cases around the world. The issues date back many years, but recently an Alberta court weighed in on the application of provincial privacy law in a decision that has big implications not only for that company but for the intersection between privacy and generative AI.
Guardians of Truth: AALL’s Cornell Winston and Jenny Silbiger on Transparency, Advocacy, and the Road to Portland
This week, we welcome Cornell Winston (current President of the American Association of Law Libraries) and Jenny Silbiger (President‑Elect). Speaking from sunny San Diego and O‘ahu’s courthouse halls, the duo joins the show to preview AALL’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon—and to talk candidly about the challenges and opportunities facing the legal‑information profession during a time
Watch out – BEC now have AI superpowers!
CSOonline.com reported that “…AI is also being extensively employed by attackers, helping them collect specific data that is used on business email compromise (BEC) attempts. AI is already getting better in deep research and with that making impersonation scams no longer as easy to identify and stop.” The June 3, 2025 article entitled “AI gives
Susskind on AI: “It’s Complicated In There”
A warning from Richard Susskind’s How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed:
We’re still warming up. In not many years, our current technologies will look primitive, much as our 1980s kit appears antiquated today. [The current wave of AI apps] are our faltering first infant steps. Most predictions about the future