Here’s the kitchen sink for August 9, 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 9, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes: Hat tip to Stephen Abram for this one. Apparently, AI-generated fakes can be spotted by analyzing human eyes in the same way that astronomers study pictures of galaxies. Who knew?

Tech Bosses Preach Patience as They Spend and Spend on A.I.: In the last quarter alone, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet spent a combined $59 billion on capital expenses, 63 percent more than a year earlier and 161 percent more than four years ago. A large part of that was funneled into building data centers and packing them with new computer systems to build AI. Wow.

OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won’t release it: To deploy the tool, OpenAI would make tweaks to ChatGPT that would lead it to leave a trail in the text it generates that can be detected by a special tool. The watermark would be undetectable by human readers without the tool, and the company’s internal testing has shown that it does not negatively affect the quality of outputs. The detector would be accurate 99.9 percent of the time. Um, why aren’t they doing this? 😐

“Do not hallucinate”: Testers find prompts meant to keep Apple Intelligence on the rails: {slaps hand to forehead} Duh! If you want to keep genAI models from hallucinating, just tell it not to hallucinate and make stuff up! Why didn’t we think of that before now? 😉

DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Alleged Violations of Children’s Online Privacy: Rob Robinson covers the latest instance of a social media platform overstepping its bounds regarding private information, this time allegedly illegally collecting and retaining personal data of children under the age of 13 without obtaining parental consent. The FTC is seeking civil penalties of up to $51,744 per violation per day for the company’s alleged violations. Ouch!

Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu: Apparently, both Microsoft and CrowdStrike offered help repeatedly in upgrading Delta’s infrastructure, but the offers were refused. I guess Delta wasn’t ready when they were! 😀

Maybe Don’t Tweet That Destroying Evidence Subject To Lit Hold Is A Good Idea?: Joe Patrice calls out a lawyer who – not once, but twice – tweeted (or is it x’d now?) that advocated for disposal of documents during a litigation hold. My favorite response among those who responded: “Can you please also weigh in on the best way to dispose of a gun, post-murder? Asking for a friend.” 😀

Artificial General Intelligence, If Attained, Will Be the Greatest Invention of All Time: Ralph Losey makes this bold claim on the EDRM blog, saying: “It will be far more transformative than the printing press or the wheel.” More transformative than the wheel? As my friend Tom O’Connor would say: “C’mon man!” Nonetheless, Ralph (as always) provides a lot of info to back up his premise.

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Alleging Betrayal of Founding Mission for Financial Gain: You probably know this story already, but I share Rob Robinson’s post about it for two reasons: 1) It gives me an opportunity to use my favorite Yogi-ism “Déjà vu all over again”, and 2) Rob’s genAI image of Elon Musk makes him look almost human, which (I’m convinced) he may not be.

Discovery of Surveillance Video is Permitted Only After Deposition of Plaintiff: Interesting case from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. The title reveals the outcome, but the reasons for the decision are interesting. Might have to add that to our case coverage list! 🙂

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for August 9, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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