Here’s the kitchen sink for November 22, 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 22, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

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ComplexDiscovery OÜ Launches 36th eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, Highlighting AI Impact: Mine isn’t the only survey you should consider taking. Rob Robinson has launched the Fall 2024 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, completing nine years of surveys on eDiscovery business! It’s the best barometer of eDiscovery business we have. Take the survey here!

I’ve created thousands of AI images and these are the best AI image generators of 2024: Good info on nine AI image generators, including reasons to buy, reasons to avoid, costs and more. Still, there are a couple of good AI image generators I know of that didn’t make the list, but this is good info for the nine that did.

CHEATSHEET: How RAG Makes AI Smarter!: Stephen Abram gets the hat tip on the last article and he also shares this terrific infographic on Retrieval Automated Generation (RAG), with a definition, core components, basic RAG workflow, as well as applications, advantages and challenges of RAG! Terrific! 😁

Microsoft Teams will help you speak in a foreign language during meetings: Quoi ? Ça a l’air incroyable, à supposer que ça fonctionne. Bien sûr, je n’arrive même pas à faire charger l’application Microsoft Teams, donc il y a ça.

From Sextortion to Financial Scams: The Expanding Reach of Deepfakes: Rob Robinson covers a new report from the Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO), that discusses the harm of deepfakes, which we are starting to see more and more, including this story I covered this week.

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI: Because of concerns over copyright infringement? No, but it would be funnier if that were the reason. 😂

Child safety org flags new CSAM with AI trained on real child sex abuse images: It’s not all bad on the AI image generation front – AI is being used to detect child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). Kudos to Thorn (a prominent child safety organization) and Hive (a leading cloud-based AI solutions provider) for the release of an API expanding access to an AI model designed to flag unknown CSAM!

Cultivating the E-Discovery Unicorn: Advanced Project Management for Litigation Leaders: Ari Kaplan with another post on the ACEDS blog, this time discussing the “e-discovery unicorn” – a special kind of project manager who seamlessly combines technical expertise, leadership, and an ability to communicate complex processes in an accessible way. Let’s just hope they don’t get left behind by the next Ark. 😉

Redefining Data Privacy: Germany’s Landmark Ruling on Facebook’s Data Breach Case: As Rob Robinson covered here, Germany has suggested a compensation rate of €100 per user for data scraping incidents that occurred in way back 2018 and 2019, resulting in the exposure of personal data for 533 million Facebook users globally. That’s serious money, even for Meta! It’s not just the Irish that Meta has to worry about, it’s also “zee Germans”.

School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules: Apparently, copying and pasting from generative AI gets you a bad grade in school. I’m going to make my son read this one! 🤓

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for November 22, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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