Here’s another set of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week! It’s the kitchen sink for February 16, 2024 – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for February 16, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Prepare to Ride the Next Discovery Wave: New Initial Disclosures: This one’s from last month, but I just saw it this week – New discovery rules in California require parties in most litigation matters to describe or disclose within 60 days a wide swath of information relevant to the subject matter of an action if any party so demands. Great write-up by Ron Best and Phil Favro.

Episode 131: Can Failing to Produce a Privilege Log Lead to Waiver of Privilege and Sanctions?: You don’t expect me to give you the answer and spoil the outcome of Kelly Twigger’s excellent write-up, do you?

He Used AI to Record Work Calls. Now His Ex-Employer Wants to Seize Equipment: Write-up about a trade secret lawsuit where a former sales employee allegedly used an artificial intelligence transcriber to record business calls, forwarded hundreds of work emails to his personal account and refused to return confidential information.

The AI Lawyer is Here: The good, the bad and the ugly of how AI can impact the practice of law.

APT Unveils the Long-Awaited 2024 Salary Guide for eDiscovery and Legal Tech Sectors: EDRM covers this interesting 18-page guide for eDiscovery and legal tech salaries. It’s somewhat UK-centric, but interesting,

OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory’: They are releasing a new version of ChatGPT that stores what users say and applies it to future chats. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? 😮

Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors: HUGE story that I certainly would have covered with a full post had I not been on vacation. Not a joking matter for Sarah Silverman and others.

Words Matter: Tips On Effective Prompts To Improve Your Generative AI Output: Judge Ralph Artigliere with a terrific discussion on using generative AI on the EDRM blog. Did you know that talking nicely to your Generative AI platform can improve its performance? It works for people too! 😉

Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says: They’ve used OpenAI’s systems in the creation of their cyberattacks, according to research released Wednesday by OpenAI and Microsoft. But not in the way you might think.

Drawing the Line: USPTO and AI Inventorship in the Innovation Maze: Can AI hold a patent? And could that change over time? Rob Robinson breaks it down on his ComplexD blog.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 16, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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