Lilian Edwards

@lilianedwards.bsky.social

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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected] .. more

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Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · Dec 12

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

I hang on grimly to having some kind of access to Freeview TV for this exact reason. I don't always constantly want to make choices choices! Last night I watched Official Secrets by accident cos it came on, wld never have chosen it..losing browsing is big loss, TV and books...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks!!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

A really terrible one that somehow sucks me in every time at this time of year is Last Xmas, the most on the nose film ever...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Ps just start at 1.46 in - bit of faffing at start ( I didn't edit it!)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Benjamin and Nelson for me!!!;;

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Wowowowow ♥️

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 18h

love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)

Beltane @anbhealtaine.bsky.social · 19h

That's a pretty awesome group of people

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Dyou want the terrible ones? Probably Bourne, Bridget Jones and Coyote Ugly. Cos they're ALWAYS ON on something like ITV3. Don't think I've seen anything good 6 times but nearest is Cap Am Winter Soldier which I adore, reincarnation of 70s state conspiracy surveillance genre

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Finally it is doubtful if law is keeping up with the problems behind shiny technical means to deliver explanations. Dun& Bradstreet has just discovered counterfactuals. How long till chain of thought!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

This creates a tension between "plausible", easy to understand, user-friendly explanations and those "faithful" to underlying reasoning. Yet law does not seem this tension & in latest case CJEU Dun& Bradstreet reinforces out of date mandate for "easy to understand" explns per rec 58 GDPR

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

I discuss the spread of legal mandates of explanations of algorithmic decisions but at same time increasing unreliability of explanations offered by "reasoning" LLMs. Chain of Thought not = explainability! To hallucinatory answers we thus now add hallucinatory explanations..1/2

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Pleased to note my Cambridge lecture on how technical approaches to the right of explanation have gone haywire in the LLM era, is already up!

youtu.be/wLxuq3I2d_s?...

Many thanks to @CIPIL who um may not be here? And to @jennifercobbe for her v kind invitation! 1/3

Faithful or Traitor? The Right of Explanation in a Generative AI World: CIPIL Evening Seminar

YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 14h

Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Reposted by Lilian Edwards

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 18h

love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)

Beltane @anbhealtaine.bsky.social · 19h

That's a pretty awesome group of people

Committee on Technology

Sarah Aoun
Ruha Benjamin, Ida B Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton
Myaisha Hayes, MediaJustice
Noel Hidalgo, BetaNYC
Sam Jacobs, Food Fight Lab
Katherine Jin, Democratic Socialists of America
Amba Kak, AI Now Institute
Huge Ma, Turbovax
Matt Mitchell
ReNika Moore, ACLU
Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study
Martha Norrick, Backbone Strategies
Julie Samuels, Tech NYC
Garfield Swaby, New York Public Library
Julie Swoope Democratic Socialists of America
Haley Van Dyck
Elyse Voegeli, 18F
Maia Woluchem, Data & Society

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Have you tried… NOT being a vampire slayer?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Moi aussi

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I mean f*CK you mean ANOTHER pair of glasses?! For life???!!!!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

They don't want to spend /lots of money on fat people, at root, because at root it is ALL OUR OWN FAULT ( unlike ppl w high blood pressure, autism etc)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Unpopular opinion : Pluribus is overrated and Down Cemetery Road is WAY better.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Generative AI has entered its P2P persecution era...
www.notebookcheck.net/Man-who-used...

Man who used generative AI to create image accused of copyright infringement, in potential landmark case

Users of generative AI apps like Stable Diffusion may not fear legal prosecution. Nonetheless, in Japan, authorities believe a man instructed the software to replicate a protected image. Most accusati...

www.notebookcheck.net

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Truely the Halloween movie writes itself

Reposted by Lilian Edwards, Steven H. Seggie

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 3d

I apologise for this, but I need everyone to join me in a rousing internal chorus of Where's the money from? to the tune of chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.
Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...

Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph

Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain

www.ft.com

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

No obvious giant spike in requests in 2023..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Bloody hell yes

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Cling film over sash case windows..

Reposted by Lilian Edwards

TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 4d

Any law and technology experts out there interested in a new role with great colleagues?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting- not sure if you will be able to differentiate that in the Google search transparency report - last i looked Open AI did not give RTBF stats ..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

And Google will often honour yr right to be forgotten tho only removes link between your name & the slop..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Yeh theres the rub. In theory norms for recognition of civil decrees in other countries are well worked out but libel judgments in UK for enforcement in US have been rejected before as against free expression. Some of the DP remedies we mention are available under some state laws try looking at Cal…

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