Here’s the kitchen sink for May 31, 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 31, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers: In case you haven’t seen it by now, Google’s AI overviews have been doing things like telling people to “add glue to the sauce” to keep cheese from sliding off pizzas, that “running with scissors is a cardio exercise” and that “blinker fluid” is a possible solution for a turn signal that doesn’t make noise. Oy. 😀
Courts Clarify Copyright Laws in the Age of AI: Ownership Implications Explained: Czech, please! 😉 Rob Robinson discusses how a Czech court recently ruled that generative AI cannot be considered an author under copyright laws. It can’t own a patent either.
The AI Regulatory Landscape: Colorado, Connecticut, and the Biden Administration: We’re starting to see states pass their own AI regulations, per Rob Robinson’s post. Pretty soon, we’re going to be tracking them like we do with the states that have passed data privacy laws.
Civil Procedure Rules Can Change for the Better- But It Takes Work: Terrific write-up of the evolution of Florida discovery rules changes by Judge Ralph Artigliere. I love this quote: “Members of the Bar and the judiciary get the rules we deserve. If there is something that needs to be changed, become part of the solution by volunteering or at least speaking up when the opportunity presents.” 🙂
Leike: OpenAI’s loss, Anthropic’s gain?: “That escalated quickly!” Former OpenAI researcher and co-lead of the—now dissolved—Superalignment safety team, Jan Leike (who quit the company last week over “safety concerns”), has publicized that he’s joined OpenAI rival, Anthropic.
Judge to Defendant on Zoom Call: ‘Are You Driving?’: Is it a good idea to participate in a court’s Zoom hearing while driving? No. It’s even a worse idea when you’re a defendant in a case involving driving with a suspended license. No surprise that the judge revoked his bond as a result. 😮
Gen AI in Legal Practice: It’s Not About Us Lawyers, It’s About Our Clients: Stephen Embry describes his blog TechLaw Crossroads as a “no-bullshit blog” and I couldn’t agree (or appreciate it) more. After “yet another legal conference focusing on AI and Gen AI”, Stephen notes that “like so many things lawyers stew over, the focus of these discussions is almost always on the lawyer’s professional navels and not on the interests of their clients.”
NIST unveils ARIA to evaluate and verify AI capabilities, impacts: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a new testing, evaluation, validation and verification (TEVV) program intended to help improve understanding of AI’s capabilities and impacts called Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA). Hope the hotel doesn’t sue them. 😉
I, For One, Welcome Our New Sexbot Overlords: And by “welcome”, Nicole Black means not really welcome. She notes that “There’s a significant gender divide regarding the perception of OpenAI’s chatbot’s voices: most men thought the women’s voices seemed fine and even friendly, and most women felt like they were a whole lot of ick.” I can see her point. Frankly, I think they should have asked Keith Morrison if they could use his voice – I could listen to it all day.
A hacker jailbreaks ChatGPT and launches a “Godmode” version: Eric De Grasse of Project Counsel Media relays how a hacker has released a jailbroken version of ChatGPT called “GODMODE GPT”. The loop was reportedly closed in about an hour, but that was still long enough for people to use the jailbroken version of ChatGPT to learn how to make LSD, how to hot wire a car or make a highly explosive bomb in the smallest of containers. Ugh. 😮
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 31, 2024! Back next week with another edition!
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