Blake E. Reid

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Law prof @ Colorado Law. Tech/telecom/1A/copyright x disability law, failed computer scientist/multidisciplinary dilettante. Ketchup/Crocs/ska. No legal advice or good ideas.

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This is a helpful framework for thinking about Chevron. It was tricky to update our communications law casebook with Loper Bright because a significant proportion of the field’s substantive law is rooted in cases founded on Chevron (and Brand X). We’re in an ugly transition from canon to anti-canon.

Legal Theory Lexicon: Canonical and Anti-Canonical Cases, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...

Legal Theory Lexicon: Canonical and Anti-Canonical Caseslsolum.typepad.com Introduction Sometimes a case is referred to as "canonical." It is one of the cases that is clearly correct. Brown v. Board is frequently cited as a canonical case. Other times, the opposite point is ...

“Skeleton Key” and “jailbreaking” are bad metaphors for general-purpose AI chatbots that anthropomorphize them into sentient prisoners whose behavior can be neatly observed and controlled. They are large-scale stochastic systems with unpredictable outputs operating with no coherent baseline.

“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”

Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

Post-SCOTUS overturning Chevron, the long-term death by a thousand cuts of policy initiatives big and small has begun. It's critical for political leaders and the press to remind the public that these cuts are a result of an imperial judiciary (h/t @marklemley.bsky.social), not inept bureaucrats.

Biden Priorities Quickly Tripped Up in Courts by Chevron Demisenews.bloomberglaw.com Biden administration rules prohibiting transgender discrimination in health care and public schools were among the first to run afoul of less deferential judges after a landmark US Supreme Court admin...

Fantastic post from @rtushnet.bsky.social in what I’m conceiving of as The Context-Specific First Amendment (an area where we’re still doing actual law, for now)

NetChoice and Calvinball: Initial thoughtstushnet.blogspot.com I understand if you don’t think that the First Amendment is an area where SCOTUS is really doing “law” as we were taught it, but as a distra...

Trying to be a bit less reactive here and write more in more permanent outlets: here's a blog debunking Thomas's and Gorsuch's arguments in the Snap dissent that the First Amendment and Section 230 are in some kind of tension, which is risible even if you think 230 is terrible as a policy matter.

Emerging briefly from lurk for #Section230 news, ICYMI: SCOTUS denied cert in Doe v. Snap, with another dissent from Thomas (+Gorsuch) clamoring to revisit 230 and rehashing their misapprehension of tension in platforms asserting both 230 and the 1A from the NetChoice arguments.

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SCOTUS Passes on 230 Review in Doe v. Snap – Blake E. Reidblakereid.org

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Time for a posting break: the doom-clout-fear-cycle from the last couple of days is too much. It's not helping me, and I'm not helping people. Measured thoughts on the blog while I get my nose to the grindstone. Hang in there, friends—we will find a way forward.

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