12 papers
Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
Abeba Birhane, Riccardo Angius, William Agnew +4
Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the exten…
Can the GPC standard eliminate consent banners in the EU?
Sebastian Zimmeck, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius +3
In the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation and the ePrivacy Directive mandate consent for the use of personal data for the purpose of behavioural advertising and tracking te…
Playing Games with My Heart: An Evaluation of AI Companion Apps
Maribeth Rauh, Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Matias Duran +7
The use of chatbots for various forms of companionship is growing rapidly, raising a myriad of questions about simulated relationships, emotional dependence, and psychological harm…
Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services
Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban +2
Generative AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini are some of the fastest-growing consumer services. Individuals using such services must accept their terms of use before access, and…
Quality Assessment of Public Summary of Training Content for GPAI models required by AI Act Article 53(1)(d)
Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Maximilian Gahntz
The AI Act's Article 53(1)(d) requires providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models to publish a sufficiently detailed public summary about the content used for training based on…
Mapping the Regulatory Learning Space for the EU AI Act
Dave Lewis, Marta Lasek-Markey, Delaram Golpayegani +1
The EU AI Act represents the world's first transnational AI regulation with concrete enforcement measures. It builds on existing EU mechanisms for regulating health and safety of p…