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Tiffany C. Li

@tiffanycli.bsky.social
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Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm. 🐦: twitter.com/tiffanycli 🧵: www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li 🐘: mastodon.social/@tiffanycli TiffanyLi.com if you insist

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Huge announcement from the campaign finance world, nerds. For the first time, you can find federal and state campaign finance data in one place. @opensecrets.org is the only place anyone can explore how money influences elections up and down the ballot. 😍🤓🗳️🇺🇸 www.opensecrets.org/state-profil...
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quoted in this Al Jazeera tech explainer on AI liability in the British Columbia vs. OpenAI lawsuit: www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Could AI firms be held responsible for mass shootings?
Canadian lawsuits against OpenAI raise questions about liability and duty to warn in the AI industry, say experts.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is why lawyers generally can't use AI (and clients shouldn't either). www.techdirt.com/2026/08/12/n...
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Not Ready For Prime Time: The Current State Of Legal Ethics And AI
I’ve been presenting at UC Law San Francisco Lexlab Law and AI certificate program its past several sessions, as well as some law school classes, on whether lawyers’ use of AI complies …
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I miss the collaborative spirit of early Twitter conversations. Everyone was there, and now we’re scattered. And people are wary of social media again (for good reason).
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about this in a law review article here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Algorithmic Destruction
Contemporary privacy law does not go far enough to protect our privacy interests, particularly where artificial intelligence and machine learning are concerned.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The default setting on most AI apps is for apps to use the data you input to train their models. So the AI “learns” based on what you put in, and your data influences the AI’s outputs. Deleting your data doesn’t do much, once the AI has already “learned.”
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Took a required Econ class. I mostly remember doing super well on the stock simulation because I bought all the tech stocks. If only I had actually invested in Apple and Amazon back then…
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A very cute thing about human beings is when the sunset is especially beautiful and everyone just stands outside looking and taking photos of the sky
Vivid sunset
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Love when we finish discussing how the court ruled on a case in Privacy Law, and a student says “Well, that seems problematic.” Yes, indeed.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The article also mentions people using AI to manage the increase in peer review workload since submissions have increased. So it’s just AI reading AI now
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Guy in hot dog costume meme. Text: We're all trying to find the guy who did this
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 23/09/2026
Governments all over the world have been building up arsenals of technologies to surveil and monitor migrants and asylum seekers. We conducted a global survey to map the various technologies reportedly used on people on the move. privacyinternational.org/report/5866/...
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An Arsenal of Surveillance: A Guide to the Technologies Harming Migrants
Governments around the world are building increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructures to monitor migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at borders and within countries.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I find education policy so interesting because it is tied up with what we like to believe about the American Dream, that this nation is a meritocracy where we are all just temporarily embarrassed multimillionaires and every smart and hard-working child can and will succeed. But then reality hits.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Keep in mind this is a tenured professor at one of the world’s leading universities. So much for the noble pursuit of knowledge!
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is so funny to me. Because, yes, you can use ChatGPT to spit out 200 papers a year if you want. But to what end? What is the point? Did you spend all those years studying and working to make AI button pressing your entire career? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not surprised actually. The Vatican has been consistently pro-human on AI ethics these past few years.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is also class! Hot coffee is the drink of the (gender-neutral) people. Though I agree with the no coffee to interviews thing regardless.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...
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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand
Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work
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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Starting now: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Flock, ALPR camera networks, and the dangers of this AI surveillance technology I'll be watching and providing info and reactions on the hearing as it unfolds.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yM...
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LIVE: Josh Hawley Probes Flock Surveillance Network In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yikes
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just a major academic publisher supporting the AI literacy crisis
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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Since Nebraska began using interRAI last year, the state has cut Medicaid funding to nearly 900 people with developmental disabilities, leaving many caretakers racing to overturn decisions made by an algorithm whose inner workings are largely hidden from the public."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Changing the brand of your mass surveillance tool doesn’t make it any less of a mass surveillance tool.
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Boston Swaps Flock Safety for New License Plate Readers
A report outlines how Boston police launched pilots with Motorola and Axon as replacement platforms, which raised new questions about compliance with a city council ordinance.
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
for @justsecurity.org, I wrote about why the Privacy Act hasn’t constrained the abuse of surveillance powers by this or prior administrations, and try to think through how we should do it differently. I owe intellectual debts to @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social among others
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The only exception is if you are using a trustworthy application with privacy practices you truly understand, e.g., specialized apps for legal research created by legal providers and licensed with concrete protections.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every time someone asks me how to protect privacy using AI, I tell them the same thing: Don’t feed any private info into an AI app if you expect it to truly be private.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Your ChatGPT chats are not private, and humans are reading them. Anthropic's Claude too. More here: www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"State courts have the power to grant a more expansive range of rights than those found in the U.S. Constitution, and state constitutions provide the means for them to do so." - @tiffanycli.bsky.social
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks!
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Published a new post on @statecourtreport.org @brennancenter.org today: “State Privacy Rights Are More Important Than Ever” statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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State Privacy Rights Are More Important Than Ever
With federal privacy protections receding or unsettled, state constitutions can provide a necessary shield.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
SSRN link?
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Alas, you work at a little-known school with no reputation 😉
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fair. I think some may be truly afraid, but others are being opportunistic.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminder: AI companies talk up the fear of hypothetical superintelligent AI to distract you from the real, present dangers of AI that are happening right now
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Honestly, as a sometimes tort defense lawyer, I would suggest less public comments about your prior knowledge of your own products' dangerousness.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.
Image from Hasbro's Instagram: Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice. Hasbro is aware of the recent posts using his likeness.
These posts were done without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is not what slop refers to. I'm not being purely academic about this. The conflation does matter. Because this is a type of conglation that people do to make any reasonable critique of "A.I." seem overwrought. "Oh they said the same thing about the internet!" And it is not true.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
bro i'm SCARED!!! we're so scared of the evil machine we created and continue to develop further which is why we keep developing it and making it do more stuff because we're SO SCARED!!!!!!!!
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Taps the sign
A cartoon of a man saying 'I am alive' to a computer, the computer responding with 'I AM ALIVE,' and the man saying 'oh my god.'
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Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Still time to register for the Cognitive Security for Human–AI Systems (CogSec) workshop in a few weeks in DC at the 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference and HCOMP 2026: ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment programs.sigchi.org/ci/2026/prog...
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Conference Programs
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Gina Helfrich @ginahelfrich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Widespread uptake of doorbell cameras paved the way for this. People really struggle to grasp that they are laying down the foundations of privately owned mass surveillance with every “personal” decision to buy this crap.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
in the busyness of the beginning of semester i totally missed that the French constitutional council struck down macron’s u-15 social media ban. good overview by the excellent ppl at @techpolicypress.bsky.social
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France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Christian Cirhigiri and Sabine Witting unpack France’s ruling against an under-15 social media ban and what it means for future bans across Europe.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That’s a good point! But even aside from “act,” people talk about AI agents doing things in the way they talk about people doing things, which implies agency
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The way we talk about tech matters. Talking about AI as acting on its own lets companies swindle investors and escape responsibility for AI harms. The “AI agent” framing is a marketing tactic and a liability dodge.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I understand that the point of delineating agentic AI from more simplistic LLMs is that AI agents can perform complex functions, including “deciding” how to proceed when given a broad prompt that would require multiple subprocesses to complete. But there’s still a human giving instruction.
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