Here’s the kitchen sink for March 29, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for March 29, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit: Nice write-up by the excellent Bob Ambrogi. The product is still in beta, so don’t use it to sue them if it doesn’t work as you hoped it would. 😉

AI influencers explode on social media. Some are controlled by teens: Hat tip to my beautiful wife Paige for this story! Apparently, there are influencers out there that are AI controlled by UI – underdeveloped intelligence (laugh when you get it). Seriously though, AI is trying to take over blogging and now influencing? What’s left for me? Stand up comedy?

United Nations Adopts Landmark AI Resolution to Secure Trustworthy Technological Progress: Rob Robinson discusses (on his excellent ComplexDiscovery blog) how “the United Nations General Assembly has unanimously adopted a landmark artificial intelligence (AI) resolution” which was “co-sponsored by over 123 countries” and “aims to provide comprehensive guidance on deploying and managing AI technology, paying special attention to its benefits and potential challenges.” That includes sustainable development, which is notable.

New Security Footage Shows Texas Man Successfully Sneaking Onto Plane: This one from my beautiful wife Paige as well. Some dude snuck onto a plane by taking a picture of someone’s boarding pass QR code and he might have gotten away with it if the plane hadn’t been full. The article asks the question “how did he get through TSA security without a boarding pass?”, but I’ve flown several times where TSA has only asked to scan my ID, not my boarding pass. Sounds like a loop that needs to be closed.

Changing the Forum for a Motion to Quash a Subpoena: Interesting case discussion from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog about a ruling by the Court to construe a motion to quash a subpoena under Rule 45 as a motion for a protective order under Rule 26(c).

Study Reveals ChatGPT Performs Better on Writing than Students: No wonder my 15-year-old wants to use it. Better be careful, though: 70% of teachers said using ChatGPT would be like copying someone else’s work. Hopefully, they can at least catch the obvious signs of it.

E-Discovery Law Update: Georgia Lawyer Disbarred After Putting Fake Email Into Evidence: Apparently, she faked an email from her client terminating her representation before the statute of limitations deadline, which had a different font than others from the client and uncharacteristic perfect diction, capitalization, and punctuation. David Horrigan – a font of knowledge – wrote about this one on Legaltech^® News. 😉

AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report: The left-of-centre thinktank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), has warned in a new report that almost 8 million UK jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence in a “jobs apocalypse”. The first job lost? Chicken Little. 😀

“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus is first to unseat GPT-4 for #1 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May ’23. Then again, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown” with GPT-5 reportedly looming soon. BTW, here’s a link to Chabot Arena and the current leaderboard. Pretty cool.

AI weaponization becomes a hot topic on underground forums: Reportedly, some 71% of all attacks trick employees via the use of phishing, and of particular concern is a sharp rise in QR code phishing, which manipulates targets into interacting with malicious QR codes and increased 51% last year compared to the previous eight months. Too bad one of them wasn’t the airplane stowaway guy. 😀

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 29, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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