James Grimmelmann

I had the most wonderful time at #ILWIP! It was my first time attending, and it was truly such a supportive conference. Being lucky enough to have the Alex Roberts in the room and liveblogging my talk was the cherry on top!

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It believe was there in 2002–05, when I was a student. If not then, then it was at least shortly thereafter, because I’ve been to many events at YLS while it was hanging.

Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

Building at CornellTech in the morning with trees and a walkway outside

Building at CornellTech in the morning with trees in the foreground and other buildings in the background

Heading home from the 2026 Internet Law Works in Progress! My first time at @cornelltech.bsky.social. Thanks so much to @jtlg.bsky.social, @ericgoldman.bsky.social, and all who helped out! #ilwip

Many thanks to @jtlg.bsky.social for a super well organized conference this weekend at which I got to discuss dating app shenanigans as well as others’ work on AI and much else!

Bruce Ackerman has end-stage Yale Law Disease.

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"The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing." The sad part is that people were pointing this out from the very beginning.

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Shit now I’m thinking of a New Testament where they’re all Car Guys.

“Dudes, I’m telling you the El Camino was GONE.”

Then arose Peter who did run to the E30 upon which he had received the amazing deal and which did not start as Christ had foretold when they went to check it out.

How AI is challenging the idea of human creativity

I'm quoted.

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Nippon Life Insurance Company of America on March 4 accused ChatGPT maker OpenAI of practicing law without a US license and helping a former disability claimant breach a settlement and flood a federal court docket with meritless filings reut.rs/4ldVzzS

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

How is the First Amendment a bar to a law allowing listeners to sue for the actual damages they suffer when a chatbot issues advice that would be regulated professional speech if a human gave it. Talk me through the chain of reasoning that doesn’t also take down malpractice liability for bad advice.

there should be a pokeball emoji

Generative AI: Not Even Once

Thanks to @garbageday.email I've been enjoying the emerging video genre of people ripping 'smart' glasses off of wearers' faces.

Much agree with this thread. My two principles are

1) Is this complicity or contagion? (3d.laboratorium.net/2025-10-29-c...)

2) Is the goal to maintain one's own moral standards, or to push someone else to do better?

Actual cases are hard, but these questions help me think through them clearly.

The real generational divide is between those who know about the Church of the SubGenius and those who do not

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Bad content drives out good.

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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

The spiraling shape will make you go insane.

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How AI-Generated Influencers Exploit Celebrities to Sell Synthetic Nudes AI personas posted fabricated photos with celebrities like The Rock, John Cena, and Cristiano Ronaldo to build followings on Instagram. Then they earned money with synthetic explicit content on Fanvue...

Bad content drives out good.

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This reads as quite a damning indictment of your field

This is fucked up and also an interesting question about right of publicity.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Lion of N-Judah

Harry Jaffa cakes

love the colours on this badge, they’re staying 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

I wish I knew the right combination of words to convince people who don't yet realize it that knowing and being friends with lots of trans people makes your life immeasurably better. I know we're dealing with fear and bigotry here tho so; right words would likely have to be some kind of magic spell.

If you live in Massachusetts, you’re required to.