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Henry Fraser

@henrylfraser.bsky.social

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Law academic working on AI safety and responsibility in networked digital value chains

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Henry Fraser @henrylfraser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

My breakdown of Australia's new regulation for AI companion chatbots www.henryfrasertechlaw.com/post/new-reg...

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Henry Fraser @henrylfraser.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Great panel yesterday on 'Governing automated decision-making for positive social services' with @kimweatherall.bsky.social , Samantha Floreani, Jake Goldenfein, and Kath Albury, organised and chaired by Christine Parker at @admscentre.org.au . The highlights of the conversation (in thread):

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Ryan Broderick has been arguing that AI slop is to Trumpism as futurism was to fascism, and he just added that AI’s remixing of its training data is “an aspirational vision for the future that’s completely defined by nostalgia.” (Just like fascism was!) www.garbageday.email/p/trump-s-bi...

But it doesn't really matter what the original intent of @pro_ai_artist was. It seems clear that Al art's biggest utility right now is aspirationalism. The ability to quickly and cheaply generate a vision of the future for Trump supporters. And I've written before about how Al art is to modern fascism what futurism was to 20th-century fascism, but the Homeland Security X account posting a Thomas Kinkade painting - and a right-wing user getting mad at them and Al-generating a more “futuristic" version - unlocked something for me.
Unlike 20th-century futurism, Al art is, by definition, cobbled together out of previous art styles. An Al model cannot create anything new, only remix what it's ingested. Which is an apt metaphor for the Trump administration. An aspirational vision of the future that's completely defined by nostalgia. A complete cultural dead end.

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Henry Fraser @henrylfraser.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Don't let a company that doesn't care about you think your thoughts for you with a pseudo-brain they still haven't finished making. Please. www.henryfrasertechlaw.com/post/the-ai-...

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The AI Mephistophilis

To use generative AI - or at least to use it badly; to rely on it to do your thinking and communicating - is in some sense to admit defeat and consign yourself to irrelevance. It is an admission that ...

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Henry Fraser @henrylfraser.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

After marking too many papers riddled with AI generated nonsense, I worry about a future of *artificial general stupidity*. Will business, government and just about everyone succumb to the lure of cheap AI tools that aren't fit for purpose? www.henryfrasertechlaw.com/post/ai-and-...

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AI and the temptation to cheat at everything

At this point it seems fair to say that the lure of cheating is not a fringe sociological bug, found around the margins of AI deployment. It's an essential feature of this new technology. The tech is ...

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