Here’s the kitchen sink for June 7, 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 June 7, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Facial Recognition Still Struggles To Recognize Faces As More People Are Misidentified As Criminals: The subheading says “From the everything-is-fine-say-tech-purveyors-surrounded-by-flames dept”. 😀 And this quote from the article doesn’t mince words: “tech advancements have, for the most part, simply automated bigotry and provided cop shops with plausible deniability for their own innate racism. ‘The machine made me do it.’” Doesn’t look like much has changed since I wrote this article 20 months ago.

ChatGPT Appears Able to Draft Copy in a User’s Style: My Experience: Intriguing article from Kevin O’Keefe on his excellent Real Lawyers Have Blogs site. Kevin notes that he’s “not a fan of adjectives and adverbs. Makes for a sensational style of copy from GPT.” And, apparently, ChatGPT can adjust accordingly! I’ll have to see if it can adapt to my style – how should I describe it? Suggestions welcome. 🙂

Sanction for Dropbox Rummaging Affirmed: Mike Berman keeps finding so many good case rulings to write about! This one discussed on the EDRM blog discusses affirmation of a $150,000 sanction against both a law firm and its client. As the NY appellate court stated: “The court here correctly determined that counsel was required to notify plaintiff that it had obtained the Dropbox link inadvertently, as the link contained folders that counsel knew or should have known were confidential or privileged”. 😮

Santander Faces Major Cyber Attack Compromising Millions of Customers’ Data: How many millions? As Rob Robinson points on in ComplexDiscovery, “the cybercriminal gang allegedly acquiring data from 560 million individuals, including 30 million Santander customers”.

Eleventh Circuit Judge Admits to Using ChatGPT to Help Decide a Case and Urges Other Judges and Lawyers to Follow Suit: The title says it all in this article from Ralph Losey on the EDRM blog, which provides the entire Concurring Opinion by Judge Kevin C. Newsom on the use of generative AI to help decide contract interpretation issues.

‘Legal Tech Lists’: 5 Things I Love About Hosting Legal Tech Panels: Terrific article from Jared Correia on Above the Law, I especially can relate to items 1 (Intelligence by Association) and 2 (Building PowerPoints). Yes, I’m a PowerPoint nerd at heart!

Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place: According to Eric Yuan, we will each have our own LLM and a digital twin that can attend meetings for us. Mine will be trained to not accept any assignments. 😉

Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news: Now, that’s truly fake news! 😀 NewsBreak attracts over 50 million monthly users(!) and its AI tool, “which scrapes the web and helps rewrite local news stories, has been used to publish at least 40 misleading or erroneous stories since 2021.” Sigh.

OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance: A group of OpenAI insiders (nine current and former OpenAI employees) is blowing the whistle on what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy, and says “OpenAI has used hardball tactics to prevent workers from voicing their concerns about the technology, including restrictive nondisparagement agreements that departing employees were asked to sign.” Your latest episode in the OpenAI soap opera! 😀

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch is cleared of all fraud charges in the Autonomy / Hewlett-Packard trial: This headline, from Angela Delvecchio at Project Counsel Media says it all. Will that bring an end to the Autonomy/HP saga (and my Dr. Evil meme) that I covered again last week once and for all? We’ll see.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 7, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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