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
go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 16h

I have a theory about the end of Wuthering Heights I bet Fennel really wanted that but got talked out of by producers that I am *amazed* not to have seen on Reddit..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Spent last night playing Prefab Sprout. Still haven't pinned down exactly which song it's riffing on but it DEFINITELY IS. And that's the brass from Whole of the Moon..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. He had a lovely seaside retirement though

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

That's inspired. I always feel kind of dirty when I'm sure I'm being asked as token woman in desperation

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Ndr ountbatte

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 1d

Anger as US report on EU ‘censorship’ leaves commission, NGOs’ names unredacted

<div><img width="600" height="400" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/Jim-Jordan-Speaking-600x400.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/Jim-Jordan-Speaking-600x400.jpg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/Jim-Jordan-Speaking-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/Jim-Jordan-Speaking.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>The recent US report on 'EU censorship' left dozens of names of civil society and EU officials unredacted in emails – while carefully hiding company employee names.

euobserver.com

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone noticed that Sam Fenders duet with Olivia Dean is a straight steal from Prefab Sprout King of Rock n Roll? ( No complaints here)
Usual service resuming now...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Of course it now has me on one free month and automatic rolling contract at £11.99 after that unless I Do Something. These things should so be illegal.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Suspicious. Alexa keeps refusing to play music from Spotify via Sonos ( this is all set up). Tonight I tried asking it to play Olivia Dean from Amazon Music instead. Faster than light it worked. Hmmmm.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to go that far back. It was a big feature of apartheid SA

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Inappropriately, I LOLED

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Actually having had time to read this now it is staggeringly gauche. It is treated as ordinary adult porn. There is no interest in hearing from the woman whose image has been used without permission nor consideration of how women generally are upset by this. It is 🤮

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Who remembers the Meta Oversight Board? Never knowingly late to the party..

www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...

Board to Address Non-Consensual AI Sexualized Impersonation

The Board is announcing a case involving a post that was reported for being an AI-generated non-consensual sexualized video impersonating a woman.

www.oversightboard.com

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

And back 😉

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Hope to see you later!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Dear god. The opposite of longtermism

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Splutter

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in the US datasociety.net/points/build...

Building Civic Strength for an AI Era

Our new AI Civics initiative treats AI not as a tool to be mastered, but as a domain of civic life where people have rights, responsibilities, and avenues for collective action.

datasociety.net

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

That's...Glassian

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

You're around? In Ed?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Phew. Yup.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahaha no weep

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Is it just me or is BSky getting more interesting & useful again? There seemed a long patch when frankly it was more useful to be on LinkedIn 🤮

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

( not a discord person soz)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

So the restricted version simply contains no age inappropriate content so noone needs to ID ? Is that right? Who checks the filtering to create that?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

LLMs, like seriously method actors, seem to turn into bad actors if asked to do bad things for too long. It seems a bit like socialising small boys. Are they using educational psychologists anytime??

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

A very good article on the weirdness of the AI alignment problem, including one of my favorite images describing AI training

www.understandingai.org/p/the-many-m...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

That's superb - first thing I've read that's made me interested in misalignment

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Moderately terrifying. I would guess straight off this feature isn't legal in EU but possibly they don't care & market it anyway? See CJEU Rynes.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Get a room you guys

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