Here’s the kitchen sink for June 14, 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 14, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

OpenAI Confirms Use of its AI Tools in Russian Disinformation Campaigns: Ruh-roh. Then again, not particularly surprising – we knew things like this would happen. At least, as Rob Robinson discusses in Complex Discovery, “these efforts were not particularly successful”.

States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill: As federal lawmakers drag out regulating A.I., state lawmakers across the country have proposed nearly 400 new laws on A.I. in recent months, according to the lobbying group TechNet, says The New York Times (which always insists on spelling “A.I.” funny, IMO). 😐

AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent: Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image generators like Stable Diffusion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Monday. Chances are, it’s happening to kids worldwide as well. 🙁

eDJ Geek Guide – SharePoint eDiscovery Architecture: I’m a bit chagrined that I haven’t covered Greg Buckles’ Geek Guides from his terrific eDiscovery Journal blog. Greg’s Geek Guides condense and reframe Microsoft’s exhaustive administrator documentation for discovery practitioners, very succinctly and to the point. How cool is that? 😀

AI means we’ll work smarter, but just as hard, says Box CEO Aaron Levie: Bad news for those of us who would really like to take a break, but I agree with him. Look at every other technological innovation that has streamlined work over the years. All they have done is raise expectations about how much work we can do. BTW, this article has something I’ve never seen before – “Dyslexia mode”! 😮

Garden Variety: Byte Fed. v. Lux Vending: The only reason I’m not devoting a full blog post to Craig Ball’s excellent post on his Ball in Your Court blog is because I already covered this case (which Craig kindly notes in his opening). Craig’s post does a great job diving deep into the keyword search terms proposed by the plaintiff in one request, which include syntax that (as far as both Craig and I know) no eDiscovery platform supports! This is why you need to know this stuff.

Types of Artificial Intelligence: Still Another Test of the ‘Panel of AI Experts’ on a Chart Classifying AI: The latest in Ralph Losey’s series that is trying to take my job. Key is the sharing of a chart comparing the basic types of AI (which Ralph’s AI panel proceeds to analyze). It’s so good, I’m sharing it here:

Adobe Will Update Terms Of Service Agreement After Customers Who Actually Read That Long Document Express Concerns About AI And Privacy: Apparently, their vague ToS gave people the impression that users that may be licensing their content to Adobe to use as they see fit. Thank goodness somebody read it for us!

Privacy Risks in Smart Home Apps: A Closer Look at Data Collection: The recent “Smart Home Privacy Checker” study by the Surfshark Research Center analyzed 290 apps connected to over 400 IoT smart home devices and found that approximately one in ten apps collects user data for tracking purposes. The worst offenders? Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. Sigh.

“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees: According to the report, WF employees were fired for using devices to make it look like they were working when they weren’t, including software that simulates keyboard presses and “mouse jigglers”. At least they aren’t still opening fraudulent accounts for us (I think).

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 14, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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