Here’s the kitchen sink for July 12, 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 July 12, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Microsoft Roadmap-eDiscovery Impact June 2024: Greg Buckles continues to do a great job of keeping us up to date on changes to Microsoft products that have eDiscovery impact. If you’re a Microsoft shop, Greg’s blog is a must read.

Hacker Stole OpenAI Internal Documents – Report: OpenAI’s internal messaging systems were compromised by a hacker. Not surprising – it happens to most companies at some point. The fact that it happened in April 2023, and we just found out about it? Sadly, not surprising either. 🙁

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text: The title says it all, but the word above the title – “Seriously?” – made me chuckle. It’s been fixed now, Mac users.

Small Language Models: A Paradigm Shift in AI for Data Security and Privacy: Rob Robinson notes that “The transition from large language models (LLMs) to SLMs is gaining traction due to the latter’s ability to provide more targeted, cost-effective, and secure solutions.” That’s not all – there’s also MLMs, which stands for Masked Language Models that can handle ambiguous language. I expect that traction to pick up steam.

Generative AI’s looming crap in, crap out data problem: Cloudflare announced a new feature for its customers that would prevent AI bots from scraping data from sites. If most sites implement something like this, Generative AI models are going to have a big training data issue as they can’t get to those sites anymore. Well, crap! 😉

The 6 Disciplines Companies Need to Get the Most Out of Gen AI: The title says it all. My favorite of the 6 disciplines? Data Management, which pretty much drives everything businesses do these days.

Mediation of Discovery Disputes by Court’s Law Clerk?: Michael Berman discusses this trend on the EDRM blog that “seems well-established in at least some part of the federal court of Idaho” and has been employed in other venues as well. Hey, if they know what they’re doing, why not?

Generative AI… What If This Is As Good As It Gets?: I don’t agree with Joe Patrice bashing one of my favorite movies, but he has a point when he notes that Generative AI development is sapping electricity — and water for cooling — at an alarming and expensive rate that could become unsustainable. Now, he covers a Goldman Sachs report that suggests the tasks that GenAI performs now are likely the only tasks it can ever support. There’s a bear in every market.

The New Term “Slop” Joins “Spam” in Our Vocabulary: This seems to be a week where everybody wants to look at AI’s challenges and shortcomings. Sheila Grela introduces us to the term “slop” on the EDRM blog, which is AI-generated content created primarily for profit, like “clickbait articles with misleading titles leading to shallow content filled with ads or poorly written blog posts stuffed with keywords to manipulate search engine rankings.” She also discusses how to distinguish high-quality content from “slop”, why confirmed human information must take precedence, and even provides us with some eye-popping stats. Great article.

Legal Turmoil in the Pharmaceutical Industry: AbbVie, Purdue, and Beyond: Rob Robinson covers several legal developments in the pharmaceutical industry on ComplexDiscovery, including that AbbVie has petitioned SCOTUS to protect its corporate records from disclosure, after the 3rd Circuit’s decision to order AbbVie to hand over 19 highly confidential documents, based on the crime-fraud exception. Stay tuned!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 12, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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