4 papers
Do Generative AI Assistants Respect robots.txt? Tracing Web Access Beyond Visible Answers
Gabriel Lopez-Fonseca, David Rodriguez, Stefan Bechtold +1
AI assistants increasingly retrieve web content at inference time to provide fresh and grounded answers, yet it remains unclear whether these search-augmented capabilities respect…
Setting the Course, but Forgetting to Steer: Analyzing Compliance with GDPR's Right of Access to Data by Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Antariksh Das +6
The GDPR's Right of Access aims to empower users with control over their personal data via Data Download Packages (DDPs). However, their effectiveness is often compromised by incon…
Lawma: The Power of Specialization for Legal Annotation
Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo, Vedant Nanda, Rediet Abebe +6
Annotation and classification of legal text are central components of empirical legal research. Traditionally, these tasks are often delegated to trained research assistants. Motiv…
Antitrust, Amazon, and Algorithmic Auditing
Abhisek Dash, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh +4
In digital markets, antitrust law and special regulations aim to ensure that markets remain competitive despite the dominating role that digital platforms play today in everyone's…