Podcast
The Attune Up! Podcast
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“Expertise is not a database lookup. It’s a practice.”In this episode of Attune Up, host Yule Guttenbeil discusses the role of AI in legal work, emphasizing its limitations and the importance of human expertise. Yule outlines the strengths and potential pitfalls of using AI, highlighting the need for expert oversight.
Blogs
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AI system mapping is impossible at scale, and what to do instead
Documenting the wrong metric By Yule Guttenbeil Most privacy and AI compliance projects I am brought in to document begin with the same assumed starting point. Map the systems. List the tools, data flows, and workflow that touch personal information, then produce a document that describes how the organisation is intended to operate. The instruction...
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Why human in the loop AI will fail as oversight
How upstream automation quietly shapes the decision By Yule Guttenbeil Most AI governance frameworks I encounter in Australian businesses rest on a single load-bearing assumption. The assumption is that a human at the end of the decision chain provides meaningful oversight of the automated systems that fed into it. I do not think that assumption...
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AI Model Copyright Ownership: Who Owns the Omelette?
The frontier AI copyright debate has skipped the most fundamental question. Everyone is arguing about whether training is fair use, whether a licensing layer can be retrofitted, and whether the EU’s text-and-data-mining opt-out is workable. Nobody is asking the question that comes before any of that: who owns the trained model? I have written a...
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Running 63 columns of customer data through AI
The Task I Hadn’t Done Before I recently had a client hand me a spreadsheet containing 63 columns of customer data. The brief was straightforward: go through each field and classify whether it could be input into an AI tool. It was the first time I’d been asked to do this. But it won’t be...
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The Contract Dispute That Revealed a Broken Process
A technology company came to me in the middle of a contractual dispute. They’d been subcontracting through another business on a major project for a large enterprise client. The relationship had soured over unpaid work, and the contract they were relying on was—to put it gently—insufficient. It was maybe ten pages long with schedules. It...
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Policies for Regulated Businesses: Why They Matter and How to Get Them Right
Getting compliance policies right In highly regulated sectors like finance, healthcare or energy, practical, well-written policies are the backbone of compliance. Strong policies tell everyone what to do and why – ensuring the business follows the law and industry rules. A robust compliance program fosters trust and transparency and cultivates a culture of integrity in...
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