Here’s the kitchen sink for May 3, 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 May 3, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Report on the First Scientific Experiment to Test the Impact of Generative AI on Complex, Knowledge-Intensive Work: In this post on the EDRM blog, Ralph Losey discusses the good and the not-so-good of the Boston Consulting Group study that I alluded to in yesterday’s blog post about genAI myths. As usual, his write-up includes several creative images created by Ralph to spice things up. Hope he didn’t try 118 times to make any of them like he did last week! 😉

The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers: Who says lawyers aren’t tech savvy or even cybersecurity savvy? Here are 500 who are and that provide legal services across several technology practice areas.

‘Legal Tech Market Will Be Worth $50bn by 2027…Because of GenAI’ – Gartner: The article begins by stating: “Here is a statistic (wild guess…?) that will be in every legal tech company’s pitch deck to VCs from now on….!” No kidding. Assuming Rob Robinson’s “mashup” forecast from last year holds true, nearly $21 billion of that will be the eDiscovery market.

Amazon’s Use of Encrypted Messaging in Legal Spotlight: A Tech and Corporate Governance Conundrum: Speaking of Rob, this story on his excellent ComplexDiscovery blog discusses that the FTC “has leveled accusations against Amazon’s highest-ranking officials, including founder Jeff Bezos, alleging that they deliberately employed the disappearing messages feature of the Signal app to conduct business discussions that now lie at the heart of a monumental legal battle.” Amazon counters that they told the FTC about their Signal use and already has produced “over 1.7 million documents and 100 terabytes of data”. Get your popcorn ready! 😀

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check: Even in a booming market, there will be those who take their swings and miss. Inflection AI has folded (after raising $1.5 billion, but making almost no money), Stability AI has lost employees and their CEO (which I covered here). Even Anthropic has potential concerns, as it has a “roughly $1.8 billion gap between its modest sales and enormous expenses.” Competing against Microsoft, Google and Meta ain’t easy.

Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours: I could have shortened that title to the first six words and it would have been funnier, just sayin’. 😉 Customers say Meta’s AI goes through what should be daily ad budgets in a matter of hours, and costs are inflated as much as 10-fold. Paid to Meta, of course.

A WA Court’s Ban of AI-Enhanced Video Evidence Raises Decade-Old Reliability Issues: Interesting article from Cassandre Coyer of Legaltech^® News regarding a decision by King County Superior Court Judge Leroy McCullogh in Washington state to bar the use of videos enhanced by AI as evidence because they can represent what the AI model ‘thinks’ should be shown”, which isn’t necessarily accurate. Hat tip to Sheila Grela for the heads up on this one.

European Regulators Reject Meta’s Ad Consent Model, Demand Genuine User Choice: More Meta ad hijinks! Rob Robinson covers this story, where “Meta’s approach, which subtly coerces users into consenting to data tracking for ad targeting, does not meet the criteria for ‘genuine consent’ under EU law.” Gee, you think? Meta is the poster child for the phrase “it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission”. 😮

Some Legal Ethics Quandaries on Use of AI, the Duty of Competence, and AI Practice as a Legal Specialty: More Ralph Losey on the EDRM blog! Here he discusses “some of the ethical issues of competence” with “All words by human Ralph Losey alone without AI assistance.” Very ethical of him!

ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad: Of course, I plan to torment my college Freshman daughter with this one! 😀

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 3, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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