From press accounts, this appears to be the image involved. Notes from Poland (Daniel Tilles) reports: A court has found two women guilty of offending religious feelings – a crime in Poland that carries a prison sentence of up to two years – for displaying an image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus with […]
Category: Conspiracy Theories
Exclusive Interview with VulgaDrawings Artist Lily O’Farrell
The twenty-eighth episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange features an exclusive interview with cartoonist and writer Lily O’Farrell who has amassed over 300K followers on her VulgaDrawings Instagram account. We talk about the British artist’s earlier days in the comedy world, encounters with the incel community, recent book […]
“Strangers on the Internet” Podcast Episode 27: “Cripfished”
The twenty-seventh episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet has me talking to the makers of short film “Cripfished,” an entrant in the 2023 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. Director Anna Pakman and actors Bree Klauser and Melissa Jennifer Gonzalez tell in their romantic comedy the fictional story of Logan (Melissa), who fakes being blind […]
Australian Mayor Threatening Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Libel
Financial Review (Australia) [Byron Kaye] reports (see also Reuters): Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the […]
Washington Post on ChatGPT Making Up Defamatory Accusations
The article (Pranshu Verma & Will Oremus) (paywalled), which was prompted by Jonathan Turley’s USA Today piece, just went up. The general analysis should be familiar to our readers (see the Large Libel Models thread), but here is a comment from an OpenAI spokesperson: When users sign up for ChatGPT, we strive to be as […]
A Jeopardy Champion Seeking Answers
The twenty-sixth episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange has us talking to Nick (a pseudonym), a Jeopardy champion in his late 30s whose work has taken him from academia to the policy world. Originally from NYC, he has tried his luck at dating all across the country and […]
Today’s Order Allowing Dominion Voting’s Case Against Fox to Go Forward
The order, which denied Fox’s motion for summary judgment and partly granted Dominion’s motion for summary judgment as to certain elements of the claim, is here; it’s 130 pages long, and I’m likely not to have the time soon to get through the whole thing and digest it, but I thought I’d pass it along. […]
An Era of Broad Remedies Makes Standing Even More Important
“Few exercises of the judicial power are more likely to undermine public confidence in the neutrality and integrity of the Judiciary than one which casts the Court in the role of a Council of Revision, conferring on itself the power to invalidate laws at the behest of anyone who disagrees with them. In an era […]
Zoom Workshopping Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Outputs
I have a very rough draft of this article; I’d love to hear comments on it, of course, but I’d also like to workshop it by Zoom, in case some people are interested. So if you want to set this up for some law people, or computer science people (academics, students, practitioners, or a mix), or others […]
DEFCON 3 NAVY PUTS NUKE ASSETS TO SEA
Within a 24 hour period a floating early warning radar station sea based X band radar (SBX-1) sailed from Pearl SS Pacific Tracker Ballistic Missile Launch Tracker (WQVZ) left Honolulu US Navy Tow Barge IX-524 left Pearl. It carries the MATSS system telecommunications that covers 42,000 mile Pacific Theater An Ohio class SSBN sailed from […]