Here’s the kitchen sink for November 8, 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 November 8, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

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Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don’t regulate in 18 months: On Thursday, the company, which stands out in the industry for its focus on safety, released recommendations for governments to implement “targeted regulation” alongside potentially worrying data on the rise of what it calls “catastrophic” AI risks. Now that we’ve elected a new president, I’m sure we’ll get right on that! 🤣

ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams: Researchers have shown that it’s possible to abuse OpenAI’s real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. As UIUC researchers Richard Fang, Dylan Bowman, and Daniel Kang demonstrated in their paper, new tech tools that are currently available without restrictions do not feature enough safeguards to protect against potential abuse by cybercriminals and fraudsters. I’m sensing a pattern here. 😩

French Telecom Giant Free Reports Data Breach Compromising Millions: In the data breach du jour (see what I did there?), the telecommunications company Free apparently made data for 19.2 million customers a bit too free. Rob Robinson breaks down the data breach and its impact on ComplexDiscovery.

“Reasonably Calculated to Lead to Discovery of Admissible Evidence”: The Gates Dogfish image above highlights a pet peeve of mine, this post by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog highlights another one. The judge in this case actually says: “The information sought [in discovery] need not be admissible at trial so long as the discovery request is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.” Um, your honor, that standard hasn’t been in effect for almost nine years. However, he’s not alone: that phrase appears in 1,859 cases in eDiscovery Assistant since December 1, 2015, when new rules replaced this standard. 😖

Microsoft Roadmap: October 2024 – Personal Loop Workspaces: Greg Buckles’ latest update on Microsoft’s product roadmap with eDiscovery implications. He has a brand new at Roadmap table, where he stores all the entries, so check that out.

AI Gives Legal Departments New Leverage to Demand Speed, Efficiency From Law Firms: Discusses a report from Aaron Boersma, an innovation lead with Ford Motor Co. (who produced the report independently of his role at Ford). Notably, “AI also is transforming business practices, as clients increasingly demand value-based models over traditional billable hours.”

New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright: Alas, based on reviews, perhaps the filmmakers should have left Forrest and “Jennay” back “there” instead of bringing them Here. 🤣

Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase: Claude 3.5 unfolds; priced high, wisdom weighs the cost; progress stirs discord. (See what I did there? 😉)

Lawyers, Take Note: Microsoft Offers Current Advice On Cybersecurity: Four simple steps from experts Sharon Nelson, John Simek, and Michael Maschke. Zero to minimal cost. Many will still fail to do it. Sigh.

After Trump’s Win: AI’s Role and Risks in Election Integrity: Just because Tuesday’s election is over doesn’t mean that we don’t have to worry about future elections. Rob Robinson breaks down some of the AI risks that will only become more challenging for elections down the road.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for November 8, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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