Looking forward to it being properly disclosed at conferences 🥰

Ohh yeah, good point!

Coincidentally, the internal guidance from a certain DMA designated gatekeeper on how to write non-incriminating emails (linked to in the post) was very helpful when trying to get an AI to recognise "risky" language.

Even though it seems that these kinds of tools haven't reached widespread adoption, it may be prudent for competition authorities to issue precautionary guidance. In the longer term, if they really take off, then regulation may also be required.

legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/competition-...

For instance, the AI could allow the email to be sent, and then flag it to internal legal teams for review (thus aiding in cartel discovery and prompting leniency applications). Such emails could even automatically be forwarded to competition authorities for review!

It's unsurprising that companies will start using AI to reduce their legal risk. The incentives are there. But the thing is, they _don't_ have to throw the public interest under the bus at the same time. I argue that there are ways to deploy AI which could align the public & private interest.

The blog centres on an emerging use of AI, which is to moderate internal company emails before they are sent as to remove any "risky" language. This is quite trivial for LLMs to do these days, which have a good understanding of the law, and can even suggest edits which would look less bad in court.

Another interesting part

European competition lawyers will be overjoyed to read: "Businesses get ahead not through exploiting special privileges, but by competing on the merits."

I would argue that your blog was yet another victim of M&A and a lack of horizontal interoperability (which, incidentally, also gives it a certain 2010's design charm). Besides, as a ~two-decade contribution to competition law lore, it would be valuable on any platform!

Only partially related, but it's shocking to see how few people run their own websites/blogs these days. Setting one up really isn't so hard.

Maybe ASCOLA 2026 could have a "how to make your own blog/website" side event... :)

The change is illegal under EU competition law, since the Android Auto case.

Side note: it was so foreseeable that Meta would try this that I wrote about it already in April: legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/competition-...

Even better, here is a standard! This is what I was looking for the whole time :)

spec.c2pa.org/specificatio...

A few days later, what do I see...? roc.camera