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Laurence D
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AI strategy at the FCA. Views mine and only mine.

Recovering academic (Legal {tech, philosophy}, hci, regulation, responsible innovation, and whatnot). Diver rhymes with river.

tbh I'd rather be in Assynt
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Just AISI there, using 'post volume' and 'negative sentiment' on the r/CharacterAI subreddit as a source of evidence for the impact of emotional dependence on AI

www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-...
Screengrab from page 39 of AISI's Frontier AI Trends report for 2025
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Seen on Reddit
A screenshot of a Tumblr post saying "Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call."
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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banger
Post from @nova@starflower.space saying "computer boys are really like 'imagine a boot so big that logically we must start licking it now in case it might possibly exist someday'"
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Slowly making its way over the Seat this morning
Haar climbing over Arthur's Seat
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Nice touch from DuckDuckGo
Screengrab of the 'show/hide AI images' dropdown on the DuckDuckGo search engine
August 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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What a time to be alive... 'serving suggestions' were always aspirational but at least in principle they were, em, real
Picture of a microwaveable meal's label which says the image on the package was partially generated with AI
April 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Good of the BBC to identify the only two possibilities
Headline on the BBC News homepage saying "'On a power trip' or 'obviously brilliant'? Americans weight Musk's influence"
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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There's pictures and everything
A graph schema of a Rule of Law pattern language
February 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Incredibly, it would appear Microsoft use find and replace to produce different English language packs
A screenshot of Windows Update saying 'last ticked' instead of 'last checked'
January 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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This bit could be a description of some other, er, well-known sectors 👀
A quote from the linked article, reading 'What are these movies?” the Hollywood producer asked me. “Are they successful movies? Are they not? They have famous people in them. They get put out by major studios. And yet because we don’t have any reliable numbers from the streamers, we actually don’t know how many people have watched them. So what are they? If no one knows about them, if no one saw them, are they just something that people who are in them can talk about in meetings to get other jobs? Are we all just trying to keep the ball rolling so we’re just getting paid and having jobs, but no one’s really watching any of this stuff? When does the bubble burst? No one has any fucking clue.”'
December 27, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Edinburgh looking stunning today in her autumn finery
Edinburgh skyline Edinburgh skyline
November 5, 2023 at 9:08 PM