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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Sam says a lack of compute means he must make an impossible choice: Whether to use his LLM to i) cure cancer or ii) give free education to everyone. Similarly, I can't achieve BOTH an Olympic gold AND a platinum album. Don't ask me whether I can achieve either. www.linkedin.com/posts/axelco...

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#ai #genai #llm #openai #nvidia | Axel C. | 71 comments

OpenAI's Sam Altman on painful tradeoffs due to "compute constraints" that hamper the AI industry ✨ ➠ "to cure cancer"; versus ➠ "offer free education to everybody on Earth" What if lack of (Nvidi...

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Even OpenAI's best models still suck at quoting their training data or external sources. GPT 4o can be useful to help interpret legal provisions pasted into the chat Ask it to draw upon anything outside of the chat and it breaks down. The first quote is wrong and the latter two are just made up.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

You are giving them far too much credit.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Any bets on whose companies are up next for a major three-letter-agency audit? The fact that this seems not just plausible but inevitable is both terrifying and kind of funny.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I think that's just the handle of the person/company that owns the rights.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

One of several "read later" apps into which I piled hundreds of links that I never "read later".

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Google plans to offer Gemini to US children under 13 without verifiable parental consent (parents can opt out if they use Family Link). As @epicprivacy.bsky.social notes, this seems like a blatant COPPA violation. I don't think Google would have had the gall to do this when Khan headed the FTC.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Globe-straddling yet cuddly. A truly awful look.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Confirmed. My (MANUAL) dash-measurement process reveals that this is an en-dash.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I guess basically all US regulation relates to China now. Or "woke" stuff. Don't get me wrong—doing business with Chinese companies can present real risks to human rights and security But for a few years we had tech enforcement (from the DoJ and FTC at least) that wasn't quite so nakedly political

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Practically? Just modify the terms and go right ahead. Ethically? I don't know.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Isn't that chapter about the Library of Congress a little on-the-nose?" bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is beyond terrible. A speculative fiction novel with this plot would be so cartoonish and trite as to be unreadable. And I've enjoyed some pretty hackneyed novels.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I have never regretted judging a book by its cover. I found a lot of amazing novels that way. And disregarded a bunch of terrible ones (I assume).

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The EU AI Act has a bunch of stuff that is basically about writing and reading the manual. There could be some interesting cases arising out of those bits.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

California is particularly bad for particularising its laws into oblivion. A business can spend more time and money trying to prostrate itself into one of a law's hundreds of exemptions than it would have spent actually complying with the thing.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

(In seriousness I'd probably suggest documented, mandatory training for anyone who goes near the thing)

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I think we need a definition of "know". And "how". And "to interpret". Another few pages/months won't hurt.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

There was an error in the original, here's a corrected version. I left a stray "facilitate" in (e)(1) which has been updated to "replace".

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Damn I think that's my mistake. I might have left some of the old language in there.

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is what happens when lobbyists ask for “clarity” in a regulation.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I hope I'm not being naive but right now I genuinely feel like I'm in a flourishing industry.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Oh you like clarity? Here's 120 pages of it!

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Automated decisionmaking technology does not include... calculators... provided that they do not replace human decisionmaking." There go a few hilarious calculator-based lawsuits. Just kidding—some firm will try. Back to abacuses just in case, I guess.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

These regs are comically late and appear to have been lobbied into the legal equivalent of a whale carcass—a big, unsightly problem that only well-equipped specialists should approach. AI regulation has so far been inelegant and confusing—but I guess that might compensate for some jobs lost to AI

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

California's once pithy (and strict) definition of "automated decisionmaking technology" is on its way to becoming War and Peace. "Replace or substantially facilitate [humans]" becomes "replace or substantially replace" (?)—and the billable hours will rack up when figuring out all those exemptions.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Here's a post I wrote back when GPT could barely strong a limerick together. Note that it is positively *littered* with em-dashes. Have people forgotten that Large Language Models are trained on stuff *we wrote*?

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is not what I would call a "tightening"... www.theverge.com/news/658602/...

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Surely these functions should be nowhere near each other, rather than combined into a single field...

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The UK government has more plans for the ICO. From its recent paper "New approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth" www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Microsoft's "Copilot Gaming Experience" is a generative AI version of Quake 2, trained on gameplay data, that generates as you "play" it. Let's just say there is a LONG way to go before this is anything other than research a project. copilot.microsoft.com/wham?feature...

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Microsoft Copilot: Your AI companion

Microsoft Copilot is your companion to inform, entertain, and inspire. Get advice, feedback, and straightforward answers. Try Copilot now.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thank you. IAPP doesn't quote the bit I want so I guess I have to watch the video.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thank you. I don't *think* this what I'm looking for but it might be buried in that Solove webinar. I could watch the Solove video but I want to put off filling out his lead generation form for now.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It appears @maxschrems.bsky.social is on Bluesky and follows me, but I was rude enough not to follow back. Max did you say this or am I misrepresenting you? I only wish to mention this supposed remark in a talk I'm giving about how awful Donald Trump is.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Help me Bluesky Quite recently (NOT years ago) Max Schrems suggested that bringing a "Schrems III" against the EU-US DPF would be too expensive. It was in an interview or panel or something and has not been widely reported. WHERE DID I SEE THIS I need it.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wasn't there a proposal to raise the top tier of fines for larger controllers?

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The flexibility, of course, relates to the scope and risk of data processing activities rather than some arbitrary threshold involving the number of employees. That's the right way to apply principles-based human rights protections.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Unfortunately the battle against big tech sometimes seems to take priority against meaningful data protection. Those of us working in the field know that the GDPR is (mostly) flexible and scalable by nature. These proposals seem unlikely to help anybody, least of all data subjects.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Genuine question—if Ghibli style 4o images violate copyright law, could these people asserting this while sharing such images for commercial purposes be liable under copyright law? I expect either "no", "it depends", or my preferred answer on AI and copyright—we'll see what the courts say.

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Agreed. Also, in general, let's just rinse them ;) Or alternatively take the UK's (possible) approach. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK considers big tech tax changes to appease Donald Trump

Rachel Reeves says talks are

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I am tempted to suggest that *you* are trying to have it both ways... But I guess your position is predicated on the fact that consent-or-pay is happening...?

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A bad idea in the worst possible circumstances. How can ANY Democrat think it's a good idea to team up with Trump on free expression?

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

107 pages! Maybe they should have kept it secret...

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