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Michael Veale is a technology policy academic who focuses on information technology and the law. He is currently associate professor in the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL). .. more

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michael veale @michae.lv · May 6
How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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michael veale @michae.lv · 1d
I don't think 'screens' is a good focus, but if we want to look in terms of evidence, there is extraordinarily little evidence from repeated literature reviews that the 'gamified' education being pushed into schools and homework (and which is relatively new) is good for learning.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 1d
wonder if it has the new salary sacrifice part in - or if it’s specified enough before wednesday to model

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michael veale @michae.lv · 1d
anyone made a rough calculation of the cost to unis both of the salary sacrifice schemes tax change and the int’l student fee tax? narrative here is surely that the people who are paying for this budget are UG students in their fee rises — these should be turning into teaching, not staying afloat.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 2d
me: does this two hour film really need two hours
me: remember to give the students a 5 min break in their two hour lecture

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Simon L. Lewis, David Dunning , and 8 more

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 5d
don’t bet on the use of legitimate interest being successfully challenged under the current text though

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michael veale @michae.lv · 5d
if the article is there to say that blunt criticisms of a deeply complex law were wrong, sure. but why is ‘most’ as a quantity very interesting? scholars and digital rights ngo’s ongoing criticisms might not be most in an era of outrage but probably would be worth the economist engaging with…

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michael veale @michae.lv · 5d
seems a bit premature to write this before the majority of guidance is out, in advance of any serious enforcement action, ignoring the client side scanning proactive monitoring powers, and even in advance of the decision on which are big platforms and which are not.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 5d
"If agreed, the changes would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train AI models without asking for consent"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
European Commission accused of ‘massive rollback’ of digital protections
Proposed changes to AI Act would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train models without consent
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Michael Veale, Michael D. McDonald, Alice Marwick , and 1 more

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co

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michael veale @michae.lv · 6d
nope you'll definitely know it when (if) you see it

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michael veale @michae.lv · 6d
there actually is an easter egg in this document if you can find it

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michael veale @michae.lv · 7d
includes useful visuals!

Reposted by João Pedro Quintais

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michael veale @michae.lv · 7d
Also on SSRN dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn..., will be on a non-Elsevier pre-print server but their moderation is slow...
The Obligations of Providers of General-Purpose AI Models
During the legislative process, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was amended to include provisions related to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. These bro
dx.doi.org

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michael veale @michae.lv · 7d
We go deep into both copyright law and the technological nature of existing and emerging AI models and systems to provide what we hope will be foundations for many future research questions and analysis.

Reposted by João Pedro Quintais

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michael veale @michae.lv · 7d
New from @jpquintais.bsky.social & me: a critical and wide analysis of the Obligations of all General-Purpose AI Model providers under the EU AI Act. We give a deep ~50 page, 300 footnote treatment and find so many tensions, loopholes, inconsistencies and more.

Link: files.michae.lv/papers/Veale...
The Obligations of Providers of General-Purpose AI Models Michael Veale1,2 and João Pedro Quintais 2 1Faculty of Laws, University College London 2Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam To appear in Zanfir Fortuna, Malgieri, González Fuster and Mantelero (eds.) The Artificial Intelligence Act — A Thematic Commentary (Hart forthcoming 2026). This version: November 2025. During the legislative process, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was amended to include provisions related to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. These broadly relate to transparency towards downstream users and relevant regulators, in addition to obligations connected to intellectual property. In this paper, we provide detailed analysis of these new provisions in the context of current technological applications and emerging trajectories, connecting them to computing literature and practice, and the broader context of connected and adjacent legal regimes, in particular copyright and relevant emerging case law. We find that there are a significant number of inclarities, tensions and contradictions both within the text, between the text and other legal regimes, and between the text and guideline documents, such as the Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI and recent guidelines by the European Commission. We identify a range of issues with the scoping of the provisions which may undermine its policy goals and create loopholes for regulatory avoidance, such as those relating to non-commercial models, open-source models, and model finetuning along the value chain. We find that the Code of Practice contains significant omissions and misstatements, some of which may present a compliance risk for an entity choosing to rely on the Code. We do not consider the provisions on GPAI models which present a systemic risk, which are dealt with elsewhere in the volume which this work will form a part of. A table of contents for the paper - 47 pages long, covering legislative background, definitions, information/documentation requirements, copyright, demonstration of compliance, exclusions and concluding remarks.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 9d
there was a company doing this without sheds several years back in the netherlands; the problem is that it would run all year round, so they sort of designed it to look like a radiator but with a vent you could open on the outside of the house instead during summer... not sure that's the best design

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michael veale @michae.lv · 10d
sources: Pascal Zwick and others, ‘Context-Aware Full Body Anonymization Using Text-to-Image Diffusion Models’ (arXiv, 17 October 2024) arxiv.org/abs/2410.08551

Håkon Hukkelås and Frank Lindseth, ‘DeepPrivacy2: Towards Realistic Full-Body Anonymization’ (2023) openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV...

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michael veale @michae.lv · 10d
uncanny timeline
Ellen De Generes oscar selfie, most people are changed but not hugely, their faces look a bit like an actor playing them

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michael veale @michae.lv · 10d
cursed timeline
Ellen de generes Oscar selfie photo structure but people are dressed in normal looking clothing, faces very distored, somewhat like a horror movie

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michael veale @michae.lv · 10d
The future that privacy advocates want:
A photo resembling the Ellen De Generes Oscar Selfie but everyone's faces are swapped with someone else often looking quite bad