Here’s the kitchen sink for December 13, 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 December 13, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Microsoft Roadmap: November 2024 – Copilot Everywhere: Greg Buckles’ coverage of Microsoft’s roadmap and its eDiscovery impacts are – I repeat again – a must read for serious eDiscovery professionals. Comments like: “With a one-click ability to create Word documents from Copilot prompt responses, how does counsel or the custodian know and prove the real source of documents?” tell you why you should care about them.

The View panelist cites mysterious ‘Hunter deButts’ in bizarre defense of Joe Biden’s pardon: Ana Navarro-Cardenas cited previous examples of presidents pardoning family members, including Woodrow Wilson pardoning “Hunter deButts”. Guess where she got that info? ChatGPT. 🤣

The Impact of November’s Economic Trends on M&A and eDiscovery Practices: Speaking of regular coverage, Rob Robinson regularly updates us on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) trends. More M&A means more potential Second Requests, which is a growing eDiscovery use case. 😊

Should You Write with Gen AI?: This isn’t just an article about whether you should or shouldn’t use it – it discusses how you should use it to help with your writing, not do your writing for you to minimize inaccuracies due to hallucinations and create content that maintains your authentic, unique voice.

Request to Produce Documents Collected “to the Present” is Improper “Rolling Discovery”: Another interesting case discussion by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. He also differentiates “rolling productions” (which is a common practice in discovery) and “rolling discovery” (which is frowned upon by the courts).

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway: Hey, you can’t have the “12 Days of OpenAI” without taking a few risks! 😉 Or without leaving out those pesky Europeans and their stringent privacy requirements who don’t get Sora yet (and there’s no stated timetable on when they will).

Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit says: More families have come forward to sue chatbot-maker Character Technologies and the startup’s major funder, Google. Character.AI has been already accused of recklessly releasing dangerous chatbots that allegedly caused a 14-year-old boy’s suicide. This latest suit involves a 17-year-old boy with high-functioning autism. The allegations in the lawsuit are troubling.

Rising AI Expenditure Proves a Key Focus for Future IT Strategies: You’re probably not surprised that organizations are spending more on AI, but Rob Robinson illustrates through several surveys how much it is rising. He even highlights them for you! 😊

Glazed and Confused: Krispy Kreme Battles Cyberattack: See what they did there? 🤣 When the executives found out they had been hacked due to a “hole” in their security infostructure, they shouted “Dough!” 🤣 Also, like Jeff Brandt of Pinhawk, I wonder why hackers went after a doughnut company. Isn’t that biting the hand that feeds you? 😉

Singularity Advocate Series #1: AI with a Mind of Its Own, On Trial for its Life: Ralph Losey uses AI to write a story about AI – “an entertaining science fiction story” based on other works by him and others – on the EDRM blog littered with illustrations for the story created by Ralph. I haven’t read the full story yet, but it looks interesting.

Also, you have to chuckle at some of ChatGPT’s hallucinations. Last week during the Gayle O’Connor Spirit Award ceremony, Shimmy Messing was multitasking and reminiscing about other amazing individuals in eDiscovery who have passed away. So, he decided to ask ChatGPT for “some eDiscovery people who have died” and it identified Craig Ball (who “passed away in 2023”), John Tredennick (“2022”), Tom O’Connor (“2022”) and Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (“2021”). All these people are still alive and well and were undoubtedly surprised that ChatGPT decided to go all “Haley Joel Osment” on them.

It also named George Socha, who it acknowledged has not passed away (so, why was he on this list?), stating he “was” well-regarded in the eDiscovery space, didn’t mention his co-founding of EDRM, but did mention that “his work at multiple companies (like BIA) left a lasting legacy.” George never worked at BIA.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for December 13, 2024! Back next week with another edition! Happy 99th birthday, Dick Van Dyke! ❤️

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