Here’s the kitchen sink for May 24, 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 24, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Slack’s secret AI scandal: According to AI Tool Report (via Stephen’s Lighthouse) Slack has been outed for using messages, data, files, and other content to train machine learning models, without explicit permission from users. According to its (confusing) privacy principles (quietly updated in September), users will contribute their data for training AI models, by default, but can opt out of the program by email. Slack reassured users that its machine-learning models are not trained “to learn, memorize or reproduce customer data.” No, they do that all by themselves! Oy.

Bad Things Can Happen When Company Officers Use Their Private Email Accounts for Work: I keep thinking I’m going to get to all these cases Michael Berman covers in his excellent posts on the EDRM blog, but I can’t assume that anymore. Read his excellent summary to find out the very bad things that can happen.

New Trends Show Pendulum Swing Back to Full-Time Hiring and Need to Remedy Burnout: Recap of the latest round of trends and predictions affecting the eDiscovery job market in Q2 of 2024, discussed by TRU Staffing Partners’ Founder and CEO Jared Coseglia, ACEDS’ President Mike Quartararo, and ACEDS’ VP of Strategy & Engagement Maribel Rivera.

Guest post: How lessons from predictive coding can guide the eDiscovery ecosystem’s adoption of generative AI: Terrific guest post on Legal IT Insider from Jon Fowler, who provides an in-depth discussion of the parallels between predictive coding and generative AI and how we can learn from predictive coding’s evolution in moving forward with genAI.

The Empire Strikes Back: GPT-4o Regains the Lead in the GenAI Race: In-depth discussion of GPT-4o from John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber on the EDRM blog about the new and terrific capabilities of GPT-4o. Having played with the image recognition first-hand, I have to agree.

AI Skills Propel Wage Premiums in Legal Sector, Highlighting the Shift in Professional Job Markets: Rob Robinson covers a report from PwC on ComplexDiscovery that states “lawyers with AI expertise in the US can command a staggering 49% wage premium, while their UK counterparts enjoy a 27% increase”. I think I have your attention now. 😉

YouTube has become a significant channel for cybercrime: Deepfakes are being used in social engineering cyberthreats in a big way. Sadly, not surprising. 🙁

How Lawyers Can Use Code Words to Combat Client Voice Cloning and Deepfakes: Some good tips – beyond just setting up a code phrase like “Purple Elephant” with your client. Read it and you’ll understand what I mean.

Here’s what’s really going on inside an LLM’s neural network: New research from Anthropic (via this paper) offers a new window into what’s going on inside the Claude LLM’s “black box!” Mystery solved! Now, if someone could just explain it to me, that would be great. 😀

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show: WHAT?!? 😮 Apparently, the agent for the actual actress who voiced “Sky” for ChatGPT has come forward, neither Scarlett Johansson nor the 2013 movie “Her” were mentioned when her client auditioned for ChatGPT, and that her client was hired to create the voice for “Sky” months before Sam Altman reached out to Johansson. And, supposedly, audio recordings of the actress’ voice test sound identical to the AI-generated SKY voice. This is according to The Washington Post. Then again, the agent “spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the safety of her client”. So, who knows?

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 24, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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