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Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

OpenAI blasts DeepSeek for “inappropriately” copying ChatGPT—but is it a case of innovation or infringement? My colleague Lea Frermann and I provide a lay-summary on DeepSeek’s new R1 model, its resourceful approach, and the AI-battles unfolding. Read more: theconversation.com/openai-says-...

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OpenAI says DeepSeek ‘inappropriately’ copied ChatGPT – but it’s facing copyright claims too

The upside to this war of words? More competition is boosting consumer choice, including with OpenAI’s release over the weekend of a new AI model, o3-mini.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 08/01/2025

Starting with Shaanan Cohney (@shaananc.bsky.social), from the University of Melbourne, on the first topic, defining appropriate technical privacy notions for practice!

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Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I was on NPR with @bobbyallyn.bsky.social re Australia’s teen social media ban. Tests by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology found that age algorithms are off by an average of 5yrs for West Africans–discriminating in practice. 🎧 Take a listen! www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

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How will Australia's teen social media actually work?

Australia's Parliament has passed one of the strictest social media crackdowns in the world. Under the new law, anyone under 16 years old will be banned from opening a social media account.

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Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Parliamentary Hearing for the Australian social media ban lasts only three hours—two days after 77 submissions were filed (and presumably not read). This is making a mockery of the legislative process! Sources say MPs are getting cold feet but told to hold the party line. #auspol

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here, I illustrated it

A flow chart saying that if you’re not actually Bivens, you have no Bivens claim.

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Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Australian Government is cramming through its under-16yrs old social media ban with an insane 24 hour period for public notice and comment!!! 🤯 Kudos to my team at unimelb for putting a submission together so fast.

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Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Reduction Art! Spotted before my talk today at Barnard College

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Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Seems like this place is actually gaining some momentum? Might check it out more.

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