Here’s another set of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week! It’s the kitchen sink for January 19, 2024 – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

Why “the kitchen sink”? As I mentioned last week, since I try to cover “everything but the kitchen sink”, I thought it would be a good way of referring to the stories I didn’t get around to covering! In looking for stories to write about, I usually find more than I can cover each week. So, why not reference them in one final post of the week, so that you can check them out on your own? Try to remember that from now on! 😉

Even better when you can include a brand-new eDiscovery meme courtesy of Gates Dogfish, the meme channel dedicated to eDiscovery people and created by Aaron Patton of Trustpoint.One. I can particularly relate to this week’s meme as my mobile device seems to suck all my time and my brainpower! For more great eDiscovery memes, follow Gates Dogfish on LinkedIn here! Unless you don’t like to laugh, that is… 😀

Here is the kitchen sink for January 19, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Quarterly Industry Survey: Share Your Insights on eDiscovery Business Confidence: Believe it or not, Rob Robinson’s quarterly survey on eDiscovery business confidence is starting its ninth year! And I’ve covered every one of them. It now has three LLM/Gen AI questions too, so take the survey here!

Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive: With claimed hallucination rates of 69% to 88% for “three popular LLMs” when asked about legal issues, this Stanford study has already been cited numerous times in just a few days. My question is why was GPT 3.5, not GPT-4, used for the testing? Hmmm…

Journalists Figure Out This Morning That ChatGPT Screws Up Legal Questions: Joe Patrice discusses the Stanford study and notes that we already knew ChatGPT wasn’t reliable on legal questions. No argument here.

Three Things Midsized Law Firms Can Do Now to Mitigate Their Cyber Risk: This article had me at the title and this stat: In 2020, approximately forty-six law firm data breaches were reported. In 2022, that figure more than doubled and exceeded one hundred.

Legal Tech’s Predictions for E-Discovery in 2024: Predictions from 22 luminaries in eDiscovery for 2024. How many of them mentioned AI? Take a guess, then see if you’re right – it’s fun!

OpenAI’s Comprehensive Strategy to Counteract Election Misinformation: Great idea! Maybe we should apply it to legal queries too? 😀

OpenAI must defend ChatGPT fabrications after failing to defeat libel suit: The motion to dismiss this case (which we covered here when it was first filed) was denied by the court, so game on! At least until OpenAI’s next motion, presumably for summary judgment.

A Demonstrable Downturn in VC Funding? U.N. Projects Economic Deceleration in 2024: Rob Robinson reports on the “sobering assessment” from the United Nations of a global economic slowdown in 2024 and the “demonstrable downturn” in venture capital funding. No more VC funding for AI for a while! Just kidding… 😉

Just 10 lines of code can steal AI secrets from Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs: Now, that’s a “sobering assessment”! Apparently, because GPUs were designed for raw graphics processing power, they haven’t been architected to the same degree with data privacy as CPUs. Ruh-roh!

Google clarifies Chrome’s ‘Incognito Mode’ isn’t as private as you might think: Thanks to a pending $5 billion class action lawsuit settlement, Google is now going to tell you that it (and others) will collect your data in Incognito Mode in their disclaimer. Because that’s easier than not collecting it, right? 😮

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 19, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Is this useful as an end of the week wrap-up? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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