What Are the Bots Doing to Art?
Millions of people are currently flocking to Amsterdam to see the works of Johannes Vermeer, a show which is sold out for its whole run. These paintings are paradigms of …
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May Universities Revoke Degrees Based on Findings of Ex-Student’s “Academic Misconduct in Pursuit of That Degree”?
The case is today’s Hartzell v. S.O. (majority opinion by Justice Lehrmann); the court concludes the power is implicit in the statutory scheme authorizing the Texas public university systems, though …
Don Blankenship Loses Libel Lawsuit Against Donald Trump, Jr., Who Called Blankenship a “Felon”
From Blankenship v. Trump, decided today by Judge John Copenhaver (S.D. W. Va.): Following an explosion at Upper Big Branch, a West Virginia coal mine, on April 5, 2010, which …
Senate Finally Revokes the President’s Authority To Bomb Iraq
This week, Congress came one step closer to actually ending an American war, for once. On Wednesday, by a vote of 66–30, the Senate passed S. 316, the bill to …
Federal Agencies Keep Failing To Legally Interpret the Clean Water Act
Whether the Clean Water Act gives the federal government the power to regulate dry riverbeds, isolated streams, and land next to wetlands remains clear as mud, as a recent federal …
Defamation, Responsibility, and Third Parties
A bunch of comments to my Large Libel Models posts suggest that, when users believe (say) ChatGPT-4’s fake quotes about others, the true responsibility is on the supposedly gullible users …
Democracy Died in Darkness in Harvard Trial Sidebars
Recently, there was much consternation about Judge Kacsmaryk’s decision to delay posting notice of a hearing. Indeed, a coalition of media organizations actually argued that this decision could violate the …
ChatGPT Provides Much More Balanced Responses Than Google Bard as to Good/Bad Things About Trump/Biden
Thursday, I blogged about how Google Bard responds to “What are some [good/bad] things about [Trump’s/Biden’s] presidency?” The short version (go to the post for screenshots that contain the full …
Michigan Repeals Right-To-Work Law
With the swipe of a pen held by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan on Friday became the first state to repeal a right-to-work law in over 60 years. That’s unfortunate …
Hospitals Are Still Reporting New Mothers for Neglect Based on Drug Tests Triggered by Poppy Seeds
Before Kate L. gave birth to a baby girl last September, a nurse at New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center collected a urine sample from the soon-to-be mother. Kate thought …