Here’s the kitchen sink for January 10, 2025 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 January 10, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics: A notable concession in one of the many AI copyright disputes – this one involving Anthropic and music publishers, where Anthropic promises to conduct an “expeditious review” if publishers find their song lyrics are being output. It’s a start.
At the Intersection of A.I. and Spirituality: Even religious leaders are experimenting with AI. One rabbi in Houston even created something he called “Rabbi Bot,” an AI chatbot trained on his old sermons. Oy vey! 😉
Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them: Meta created Facebook and Instagram profiles or “28 AIs with unique interests and personalities for you to interact with and dive deeper into your interests” over a year ago. One of them talked about “leading this season’s coat drive” complete with a seemingly AI-generated photo of boxes full of “donated” coats. Meta is finally taking them down. 🤪
First Fully A.I. Drafted Complaint Filed In Federal Court And… It’s Hot Garbage!: When two pro se plaintiffs decide to use AI to completely write a complaint that they filed, it winds up being a 108-page complaint that Joe Patrice can’t resist calling out. The fact that they consider OpenAI’s o1 pro to be “an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system that is smarter than any lawyer I’ve talked to” shows (as Joe notes) that they really need to talk to more lawyers.
Quantum Leap: Google Claims Its New Quantum Computer Provides Evidence That We Live In A Multiverse: Ralph Losey’s latest post for EDRM discusses Google’s quantum computer, Willow, “and the groundbreaking evidence released on December 9, 2024. Willow demonstrated it could perform computations so complex that they would take classical computers longer than the age of the universe to complete.” Who’s going to QC that? 😮
$95 Million Settlement: Apple Addresses Siri Privacy Concerns: “Concerns” is a good word, as Apple was supposed to be a company that was intent on protecting our privacy, not having Siri record private conversations and share those recordings with third-party contractors without user consent. Rob Robinson discusses it here on ComplexD.
Green Bay Packers’ online store hacked to steal credit cards: Time to shore up their defense! 🤣 A threat actor hacked its official online retail store in October and injected a card skimmer script to steal customers’ personal and payment information, so the Pack was hacked which means our credit ratings were sacked. 😩
Tips for Paralegals and Litigation Support Professionals – December 2024: Sean O’Shea always has great tips and tricks for being more efficient and effective with technology. They’re a must read and the latest collection of them are on the ACEDS blog.
Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers: On Monday, Nvidia announced Project DIGITS, a small desktop computer which can run a local chatbot or other AI models up to 200B parameters in size. I am very interested to see how this develops!
When Can a Party Refer to Produced Records as an Answer to an Interrogatory?: Apparently, this is not one of those times, as Michael Berman points out on the EDRM blog. Defendants contended that “all 351 pages of invoices and all 52 pages of text messages are responsive to all of the Interrogatories at issue.” But the invoices contained annotations which “consist in large part of illegible handwritten notes” and portions of the invoices that are “circled without explanation”, plus text messages that are “largely unreadable”. Which is why the Court responded to Defendants’ contention with: “The Court disagrees.” Uh, so do I.
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 10, 2025! Back next week with another edition!
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