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Danny Wilf-Townsend

Danny Wilf-Townsend

@drmtown

Associate Professor of Law @GeorgetownLaw, thinking, writing, and teaching about artificial intelligence, consumer protection, and procedure.

Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Danny Wilf-Townsend
Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
@OrinKerr I use Claude often, and this has been true for me pretty much across the board (including with Opus 4.5 and 4.6, extended thinking on and off, etc.). I prefer Claude for some analytical tasks and Claude Code, but when it comes to research tasks I've found GPT Pro to be better
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Orin Kerr
Orin Kerr@OrinKerr·
@drmtown If I can ask, was there a particular version of Claude you were using?
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Orin Kerr
Orin Kerr@OrinKerr·
Some thoughts on using AI to translate and explain ancient legal documents. In particular, how do you know if what you're getting is accurate, and what uses might it have? reason.com/volokh/2026/03…
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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
My first reaction to this small visual redesign of ChatGPT is "uh-oh." Not enough people currently realize that there are different models, even though the model you use affects your results dramatically. Having the specific model not displayed at the top will exacerbate that.
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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
(For instance, if I had put these tweets through Claude, it probably would have pointed out that "instant" and "quick" in the second tweet are redundant. Oops.)
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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
...very few of the common downsides that people worry about with AI. You can just decide whether you agree with it or not, or whether an idea is worth confirming or pursuing. It's instant, quick, reasonably high quality feedback.
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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
One thing this highlights is a strangely underrated AI use case: checking your own thinking/work. It is so easy to put something you've written into a top-tier model and ask it for a critique, and (at least if you're like me) you'll often learn something. And there are...
Joseph Steinberg@jbsteinberg

I spend way too much time on social media debunking "economic slop" promulgated by lawyers pretending to be economists, so I built Show Me the Model: a tool that uses AI to check whether the economic reasoning in an essay actually holds up. showmethemodel.io Give it a URL or paste some plain text, and the tool flags hidden assumptions, internal inconsistencies, and other problem areas, and tells you how a real economist would think through the issue. Right now, it has 4 "personas:" macro, trade, IO/price theory, and labor. The tool first figures out which persona is right for the job, and then uses a parallelized prompt scaffold specific to that persona to process the source text. Here are some example outputs based on some essays that triggered me hard: Citrini Research's viral essay on how AI could trigger a self-reinforcing financial crisis rivaling the GFC: showmethemodel.io/#/results/2ez3… American Compass on the harms of trade deficits: showmethemodel.io/#/results/kOvt… @oren_cass on why Built-to-Rent should be banned: showmethemodel.io/#/results/OXjr… American Compass on the "China Shock:" showmethemodel.io/#/results/dJM7… @michaelxpettis on why China's trade surplus reduces global output: showmethemodel.io/#/results/C8OT… Try it yourself at showmethemodel.io. You'll need to bring your own API key (OpenAI or Anthropic), and a typical analysis costs $0.50–$1.50. It's super preliminary and will probably break on you. I'd love feedback about both the functionality as well as the quality of the output.

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Bharat Ramamurti
Bharat Ramamurti@BharatRamamurti·
That’s roughly the annual cost for the government to provide universal free community college.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost

The Pentagon burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions in the first two days of its Iran assault, according to U.S. officials, alarming some on Capitol Hill over how quickly the military has depleted scarce supplies of America’s most advanced weaponry. wapo.st/4s8dwCK

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Mark Jia
Mark Jia@MarkZJia·
This is a compelling complaint, and it leads with the strongest count--that @AnthropicAI's supply chain designation was arbitrary and capricious. I am more skeptical that the constitutional claims (First Amendment, Due Process) will succeed, but they don't need to so long as the
Alan Rozenshtein@ARozenshtein

Anthropic's N.D. Cal. complaint.

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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
This could be right, and even good. But it depends on whether our institutions (e.g., law reviews, tenure committees) respond effectively to this changing environment. That won't be automatic; people will need to actively explore new forms of publishing, sorting, reviewing, etc.
Gus Hurwitz@GusHurwitz

Prediction: AI will make law review articles shorter. We've been in a rough equilibrium were academics' (and editiors) ability to produce is in rough parity to their ability ro consume. (Not really -- we already over-produce! But I'm talking orders of magnitude.) 1/

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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
appear to involve a circuit split, and my read is that it was not perceived to be an issue that seriously undermines major companies' business models. Not that surprising that the Court denied cert. reuters.com/legal/governme…
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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
...the lower court's ruling significantly threatens the business model of major AI companies, or a major split develops on an AI / IP issue. And then I would guess the Court would be more likely to rule in favor of those companies than against them. This case did not...
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Danny Wilf-Townsend@drmtown·
Some are reading into this denial, but I think the story here is relatively simple, and an excuse to register a (mundane) prediction. My prediction is that the Supreme Court will decline to hear any case on AI and intellectual property in the next few years unless
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER@doctorow

The Supreme Court has just turned down a petition to hear an appeal in a case that held that AI works can't be copyrighted. By turning down the appeal, the Supreme Court took a massively consequential step to protect creative workers' interests: theverge.com/policy/887678/… 1/

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Rob Freund
Rob Freund@RobertFreundLaw·
Interesting: NY bill would prohibit AI chatbots from giving legal advice. SB 7263, which passed the Internet & Technology Committee last week, says: "A proprietor of a chatbot shall not permit such chatbot to provide any substantive response, information or advice, or take any action, which, if taken by a natural person: ... would violate ... law prohibiting the practice or appearance as an attorney-at-law without being admitted and registered ...." The bill provides a private right of action with mandatory attorneys' fees.
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Alan Rozenshtein
Alan Rozenshtein@ARozenshtein·
The current AI debate badly needs to separate three distinct questions: (1) To what extent should companies be able to restrict the government from using their systems? This is a very hard question and where my instincts actually lie on the government side (though I very much do not trust this government to limit itself to “all lawful uses”). (2) Should the government seek to punish and even destroy a company that tries to impose restrictive usage terms (rather than simply not do business with that company)? The answer seems obviously “no.” (3) To what extent does any particular company “redline” actually constrain the government? E.g., based on OpenAI’s description of its contract with DOD, in my view it is not particularly constraining.
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Anthropic
Anthropic@AnthropicAI·
A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. anthropic.com/news/statement…
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Rory van Loo
Rory van Loo@RoryVanLoo·
After nine wonderful years at @BU_Law, I’m excited to share that I’m joining the @Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While I’m looking forward to this next chapter, I’ll deeply miss my terrific colleagues and students at BU.
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I really, really hope we can move quickly past the era where courts and attorneys use the results of simple individual chatbot queries as evidence of chatbot capabilities, tendencies, and/or the policies of the companies that run the chatbots.
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