Here’s the kitchen sink for August 2, 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 August 2, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

AI Prompting for Writing: How to Get High-Quality Output: The author had me at the title, and the article does provide a detailed discussion with several tips to improve writing through AI, including use of the Custom Instructions feature. Very informative!

In a sea of disinformation, why is Wikipedia so accurate?: Thanks in part to ChatGPT and other LLMs, Wikipedia has emerged as the voice of accuracy! Where else would you learn about the buttered cat paradox or spite houses?

The 25 Largest Legal Tech Investments of All Time: In the wake of the $900 million investment in Clio, Bob Ambrogi identifies the top 25 investments. By my count, five of them relate to eDiscovery companies. And all but six have happened in the 2020s.

Exploring AI Compliance: A Dive into EU and US Regulatory Frameworks: Rob Robinson explores the regulatory landscape in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US), with a focus on the groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) in the EU and emerging state-specific legislation in the US. One notable requirement: “Providers, defined as those who develop AI systems, are tasked with ensuring their technologies meet high-quality data governance standards and are free from biases.” Good luck with that! 😉

X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it: Yet another example of a social media platform asking for forgiveness instead of permission. Here’s what you can do to opt out.

Google Reverses Decision to Eliminate Third-Party Cookies, Introducing New User-Choice Prompt in Chrome: Did we really believe that Google was going to eliminate cookies? Supposedly, Google will now let users to pick their preferred level of web tracking in Chrome. How much do you want to bet that it will be an “opt out” that we have to go find? 😐

Harnessing The Power Of A.I. To Elevate Fake Lawyering: Apparently, as Joe Patrice discusses in Above the Law, AI can help non-lawyers impersonate real lawyers! Until it doesn’t, and the impersonator is discovered and serves 60 days for contempt. Ouch!

AI Feature Embraces Traditional Role Of Asking First-Years To Go Back And Do A Lot More Research: Another great article by Joe Patrice. Paxton AI tells you when it has law confidence in its answer and actually makes suggestions for a prompt to get a better result. Nice!

AI search engine accused of plagiarism announces publisher revenue-sharing plan: Perplexity accused of plagiarism? That’s preposterous! 😉 Apparently, Perplexity’s Publishers Program (their alliteration this time, not mine) allows WordPress.com content to appear in Perplexity’s “Keep Exploring” section on their Discover pages and your articles will be included in their search index and appear on their Discover feed, meaning a chance to earn revenue. Hmmm.

Innovating AI Communication: Real-Time Conversations Between Different ChatGPTs: As the title implies, Ralph Losey actually constructs a conversation between two GPTs, turns it into a video and discusses the process and results on the EDRM blog. It’s pretty wild! 😀

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for August 2, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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