Alistair Ho

1 month ago | jdsupra.com | Alistair Ho |Deborah Kirk

Artificial intelligence (AI) took a lead role at the Oscars on 2 March 2025, with several filmmakers and actors using their speeches to touch on AI’s impact on the industry, in particular the presence of AI-generated content in some of the nominated films. In “The Brutalist,” which won for best actor, cinematography and original score, the AI tool Respeecher was used to tweak the Hungarian accents of nonnative speakers.

1 month ago | lexology.com | Deborah Kirk |Alistair Ho

Artificial intelligence (AI) took a lead role at the Oscars on 2 March 2025, with several filmmakers and actors using their speeches to touch on AI’s impact on the industry, in particular the presence of AI-generated content in some of the nominated films. In “The Brutalist,” which won for best actor, cinematography and original score, the AI tool Respeecher was used to tweak the Hungarian accents of nonnative speakers.

Jan 8, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Alistair Ho |Deborah Kirk |Nicola Kerr-Shaw

[co-author: Aleksander Aleksiev]On 13 December 2024, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published the report of outcomes from its consultation on generative AI (genAI). The report sets out key themes that emerged from responses to the ICO’s five-part genAI consultation series that launched in January 2024, which covered: The relevant lawful basis for using web scraping to train genAI models. Purpose limitation in the context of genAI.

May 13, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Alistair Ho |Ken Kumayama |Stuart D. Levi

Rather than specifically regulating artificial intelligence (AI), the UK government has opted to rely on the existing web of laws and regulations applying to technology across a spectrum of sectors in its jurisdiction. But with this pro-innovation, principles-based approach comes questions that have remained unanswered. Many relate to the application of UK data privacy laws and how AI technology compliance can truly be achieved.

Nov 3, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Alistair Ho |David Simon

A. IntroductionThe EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) (DORA) creates a regulatory framework intended to enhance the operational resilience of the financial sector by establishing uniform requirements for the security of network and information systems.