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I’m a law professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech.

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I’m serving on a Cornell committee to draft an expressive activity policy that protects free expression, the right to protest, and the university's mission.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/05/committee-recommend-final-expressive-activity-policy

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I'm happy to be fifth (!) author on this thoughtful paper at CHI by Madiha Zahrah Choksi and Marianne Aubin Le Quéré on how Nextdoor users surveil their neighborhoods. (Spoiler alert: there's a lot of anxiety about petty crimes, and it's related to gentrification.) Some very clever research methods and some very interesting findings.

Under the (Neighbor)hood: Hyperlocal Surveillance on Nextdoor
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3641967

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@luis_in_brief It uses the Urban Displacement Project’s gentrification index dataset, so that's the definition and metric.

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There are three questions:
(1) Is the goal good?
(2) Will it work?
(3) Is it worth the cost?
Always ask all three. Never conflate them.

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Amazon autocompletes “campus protest” to "campus protest tent”

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Property equals tragedy plus time.

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I'm not sure that "We can't give the algorithm to an American owner because the Chinese government won't let us” is the knock-down argument TikTok's lawyers seem to think it is.

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It's on.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24651179-as-filed-tiktok-inc-and-bytedance-ltd-petition-for-review-of-hr-815-20240507-petition?responsive=1&title=1

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Organized right-wing groups starting violent confrontations with left-wing demonstrations to create a sense of chaos and get the state to intervene on their side is a little too on the nose for the 1920s and 1930s.

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the biggest recommendation I have to new scholars is: you can just email people. anyone!

that scholar who wrote your fav paper? email them! that journalist who covers the topic you study? email them! the policy maker doing something misguided? email them!

no fear, email!

jtlg,
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@davidthewid it goes both ways — some of the best and most consequential collaborations I’ve had started when someone just emailed me

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I have a new essay in the Communications of the ACM, “The Return of Age Verification Laws," on the disturbing new crop of state laws limiting children’s access to the Internet.

https://james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles/return-of-age-verification.pdf

This is the first in a series I will be writing about how the U.S. law of Internet speech is shifting rapidly. A decades-law consensus is falling apart, and it's not clear what will replace it.

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People often ask me how to become a law professor, and I finally took the time to collect some tips and resources! Check them out here: https://tiffanyli.com/resources/

jtlg,
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@tiffanycli Another resource: there are a few guides to writing student notes, and a lot of that advice is transferrable to writing legal scholarship in general.

https://nyulaw.libguides.com/lawreviewarticle

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/10/GLJ-Notes-Manual_2018.pdf

https://www.cornelllawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Cornell-Law-Review-Note-Guide-2021.pdf

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By way of perspective, someone set off a literal bomb in the law school during exams my 1L spring. I would say it generated less than a tenth of the police response, a hundredth of the disruption, and a thousandth of the media attention that the Columbia administration's mishandling of campus protests has.

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https://www.404media.co/fake-livestream-apps-parallel-live-famefy-with-ai-audiences-are-depressingly-popular/

“Both of the apps “work” in that you can pay them money to show you a screen that looks like you are live-streaming. Famefy lets users select between an overlay that looks like TikTok and one that looks like Instagram. It is also full of microtransactions: you can pay money to have people fake viewers give you fake gifts on your fake livestream, for example. You can also pay additional money to boost the number of fake viewers that you have.”

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Chesterton’s Gun; if there is a gun on the wall, you should fire it because it is probably there for a good reason.

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Law peeps again: I'm hearing that TikTok itself plans to sue on free speech grounds. Can someone explain to me how they would have standing? This is not my area of expertise, but I was expecting there to be 1A lawsuits with TikTok users as plaintiffs, and then TikTok itself suing on different (economic?) grounds.

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@cfiesler We'll see what the NetChoice cases hold, but TikTok should have standing as the creator of an expressive editorial product (like parade organizers or a newspaper choosing which letters to the editor to print). There's also caselaw to the effect that speakers and listeners have standing to raise each others’ First Amendment rights; that's part of the theory of commercial and corporate speech rights.

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@cfiesler There are both kinds of lawsuits in challenges to state-level bans, and it seems like a good strategy here too.

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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

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@foone “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." – Robert Firth

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Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet.

In the last few months, the constant flood of algorithmically generated junk content has kicked into an AI-powered overdrive, and it is cutting a swath of destruction as it overwhelms search engines, filters, and moderation systems

Call it Gresham's Law 2.0: bad content drives out good.

I'm starting this thread to document it, because there is a lot happening all at once.

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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo/

"A service called ReplyGuy advertises itself as “the AI that plugs your product on Reddit” and which automatically “mentions your product in conversations naturally.”"

#greshamslaw20

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Facebook’s Bizarre AI Images Now on LinkedIn, Too

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-bizarre-ai-images-now-on-linkedin-too/

"The post has 2,192 reactions, 173 comments, and 84 reposts. About half of the comments note that the image is AI-generated, while about half of them say things like “I just saw his wood curving of Messi, He is talented. Just amazing.”

#greshamslaw20

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Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders

https://www.404media.co/ai-images-of-dying-drowning-mutilated-children-go-viral-on-facebook/

"One of the images shows a child whose leg is amputated below the knee and holds a sign reading “Today is my birthlday pleaase like.” That image has 70,000 likes and 3,000 comments. Another image is of a girl face-down in the ocean wearing an oxygen mask that is connected to a floating birthday cake.”

#greshamslaw20

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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/

"“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” Dawson told me. “These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”

#greshamslaw20

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Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/

"When exploring their comment sections, one will often see hundreds of bot-like comments interspersed with a few ‘real’ people sounding the alarm to no avail,” Khan Schoolcraft, a moderator of the group, told me. “It’s like yelling into an empty room full of a thousand identical brick walls.”

#greshamslaw20

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Crypto world taps AI to flood IRS with complaints about tax regs

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/05/crypto-world-taps-ai-to-flood-irs-with-complaints-about-tax-regs-00155690

"Some leading opponents have built online tools that tap the power of artificial intelligence to allow anyone to quickly generate custom letters to the IRS in opposition to the proposal — a big step beyond the form letters often central to other lobbying campaigns.”

#greshamslaw20

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Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

"Basically, AdVon engages in what Google calls "site reputation abuse": it strikes deals with publishers in which it provides huge numbers of extremely low-quality product reviews — often for surprisingly prominent publications — intended to pull in traffic from people Googling things like "best ab roller." "

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