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 , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk .. 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 · 1d

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

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Truely the Halloween movie writes itself

Reposted by Lilian Edwards, Steven H. Seggie

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

No obvious giant spike in requests in 2023..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody hell yes

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Cling film over sash case windows..

Reposted by Lilian Edwards

TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 3d

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

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

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…

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Yes but @rdbinns.bsky.social did first so we wrote an article about it : arxiv.org/abs/2412.06356

Reputation Management in the ChatGPT Era

Generative AI systems often generate outputs about real people, even when not explicitly prompted to do so. This can lead to significant reputational and privacy harms, especially when sensitive, misl...

arxiv.org

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Ive had my name, my university and my domain of expertise wrong…

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

CF Tonight! Live from Cambridge!
www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...

CIPIL Evening Seminar: 'Faithful or Traitor? The Right of Explanation

Speaker: Professor Lilian Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Law, Innovation & Society, Newcastle Law School Biography: Lilian Edwards is a leading academic in the field of Internet law.

www.law.cam.ac.uk

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

It's not even Friday and my tribe are much keener on discussing teaspoons and socks than the right to an explanation. ..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry you already mentioned latter!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Random solipsistic thought ( no quote post allowed) - I wonder if( if this was possible ) this would be better or worse than LLMs for explanation facilities. Better if it truly understood causality, obv.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

🤣 it was all about the friends they made along the way

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

I think it does matter and given TBI trajectory it's a very bad prognosis

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

And of course teacher disdain for students using AI. And citizen disdain for gov depts using AI to create consultation response ( which is probably reasonable)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Same

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

♥️

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Also weirdly in my kitchen it's forks that disappear

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

I was just saying "follow up study with biros please" when they quoted the Douglas Adams theory

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

This is wonderful. Douglas Adams has risen 🙏

Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 4d

❗ Researchers say they’ve found a universal “jailbreak” for top AI models, through poetry. A new study shows that rephrasing harmful prompts as short poems can bypass safety filters across all major models, raising questions over AI Act compliance.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

AI models’ safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

A study found that poetic prompts can bypass safety features in leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, triggering instructions for building chemical weapons and malware. The rese...

www.mlex.com

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

It's easy we just need to declare London and the SE a tax haven principality and tax the rest of the UK.
Except oops that's where all the money is 🤔

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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 4d

AI models’ safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

www.mlex.com

Reposted by Lilian Edwards

Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 4d

Plus suspicion of public bodies using AI to process consultation responses.

If AI becomes a byword for laziness, exploitation, and lack of care, how will that affect where it's adopted, attitudes towards those who use it? And will that matter, or will we just be resigned to it?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

You can at a pinch use a paper bag overnight, take it off come day .

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Put a bag over it's head 🤣

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