Here’s the kitchen sink for May 10, 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 10, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

A Finger on the Ethical Pulse: Navigating AI in Legal Practice with Confidence: I still plan to cover this excellent article from Judge Ralph Artigliere on the EDRM blog – just didn’t get to it this week. What I like about this article is that Judge Artigliere not only discusses recent ethics opinions and guidance from Florida, California and New York, he also provides real guidance and steps for success in using these tools ethically. Terrific article!

FTC’s Non-Compete Rule: A Step Towards Worker Freedom or Regulatory Overreach?: A lot of people are talking about the FTC’s recent ban of non-compete agreements, so it’s no surprise that Rob Robinson is covering it on his excellent ComplexDiscovery blog. Some love the ban, others don’t – and are suing.

OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections: The good news? It claims can detect about 98 percent of AI outputs from its own DALL-E 3, which adds tamper-resistant metadata to help identify AI-generated images. The bad news? It only “currently flags approximately 5 to 10 percent of images generated by other AI models”. Guess which image generator deepfake creators won’t be using? 😉

Microsoft and LinkedIn release the 2024 Work Trend Index on the state of AI at work: The report highlights three insights every leader and professional needs to know about AI’s impact on work and the labor market in the year ahead, including that employees want to use it at work and may do so even if their respective companies are dragging their feet. Hat tip to Grace Simms for the heads up on this.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking: So much for the “new normal”! Dell is so committed to making employees return to the office that they plan to track VPN and badge use to make sure they’re actually working there. Oh, and fully remote employees aren’t eligible for promotions. Wow. 😮

From Theory to Practice: The Need for Real-World GenAI Demonstrations For Lawyers and Legal Professionals: Stephen Embry is “preaching to the choir”, at least from my perspective. We all get the potential and capabilities, but we need to see “practical, boots-on-the-ground information about use cases”. I would go a step further and say we need case studies from companies successfully using the technology. Hat tip to Grace Simms for the heads up on this one too.

Evidence that AI Expert Panels Could Soon Replace Human Panelists, or is this just an Art Deco Hallucination? – Part One of Two: Ralph Losey created a custom GPT “designed to make ChatGPT4 adopt multiple personas to serve as a panel of experts to help legal professionals solve problems” and writes about it on the EDRM blog. When one of the “panelists” can recite Judge Peck’s “rule 1.1”, I’ll be very impressed. 🙂

Regulators are coming for IoT device security: We’re finally starting to see some security guidance for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This article touches on several of them and the common themes.

ABA Issues Ethics Opinion on 30-Year-Old Technology whose Use Is Waning. My Question: Why Now?: Bob Ambrogi discusses the ABA’s ethics opinion on lawyers’ use of listservs, the use of which is declining dramatically. I can’t wait to see the ABA’s guidance on the use of fax machines! And pagers! 😀

Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal: Apparently, Stack Overflow users don’t want their posts to be used to train OpenAI models – so much so that they have tried to delete or change their posts in protest. Stack Overflow’s response? Recover and change them back, then suspend the users who do it. Ouch! 😮

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 10, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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