Here’s the kitchen sink for January 24, 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 24, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
‘Extremely Disturbing’: AI Firms Face Class Action by ‘Taskers’ Exposed to Traumatic Content: Contract workers who say they suffered severe psychological harm by being exposed to “deeply unsettling” and traumatic scenarios used to train generative artificial intelligence models filed a class action complaint on Friday against three Bay Area firms for alleged negligence and unsafe working conditions. If true, it certainly illustrates the dark side of training GenAI models.
This Generative AI Prompting Technique Uses Multiple Expert Personas To Derive First-Class Answers: Really good article on the use of expert personas to dive deep into different facets of an issue. The AI even helpfully opted to give names to the three expert personas the author used (Dr. Green, Dr. Blue, Dr. Brown) proving that it’s a fan of the classic movie Reservoir Dogs. 🤩
Why Generative-AI Apps’ Quality Often Sucks and What to Do About It: Long and highly technical, but very interesting article on an end-to-end evaluation framework for generative AI applications in enterprise scenarios. Bring your brain.
Alabama lawyers have their court ordered lunch together at a popular BBQ spot: Follow up on this story where an Alabama judge ordered the opposing lawyers to have lunch together after the parties were not cooperating on issues – in it, “A healthy dialogue regarding professional norms ensued.” Now, was that so hard? 😉 Hat tip to Grace Simms for the heads up on this story.
AI Hallucinations in Court: A Wake-Up Call for the Legal Profession: It may be a wake-up call, but lawyers and experts keep hitting the “snooze” button. 😁 Seriously, though, this is a terrific article by the Hon. Ralph Artigliere (ret.) on the EDRM blog about filings with AI-generated hallucinated information. Judge Artigliere provides several examples of lawyer and expert AI blunders and discusses the stakes, why this happens, the path forward, and even provides a “Quick Reference Checklist” for verifying AI-generated legal content. Great info on how to do it, now we just have to get the lazy lawyers not doing it to take it seriously.
AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes: Maybe the lawyers and experts should read this one too, as it discusses the “weirdness” of AI mistakes. 🤔
Critical Vulnerability in ChatGPT API Enables Reflective DDoS Attacks: A concerning security flaw has been identified in OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, allowing malicious actors to execute Reflective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites. Even more concerning: “OpenAI’s security team and Microsoft’s Azure operations team have not acknowledged the defect, and no mitigation steps have been announced as of 10 January 2025.”
Shadow AI, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Threats: Davos 2025 Explores the Risks: Rob Robinson continues to identify terrific resources we should read while providing high-level discussion of them for those who don’t get around to doing so. This one is from the World Economic Forum (WEF), in collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, titled: AI and Cybersecurity: Balancing Risks and Rewards. The report explores the dual role of AI in reshaping industries while amplifying cybersecurity challenges.
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027: Which is why Google keeps giving him billions. 🤑
EU Rolls Out Comprehensive Plan to Shield Healthcare from Cyberattacks: See what I mean? Rob also discusses another important resource – the Action Plan on the Cybersecurity of Hospitals and Healthcare Providers, published by the European Commission – here
eDJ 2024 Retrospective – eDiscovery Same as it Ever Was: Greg Buckles hilariously adapts the Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime for eDiscovery professionals with help from Copilot – with a throwback picture of a young Greg working for the Houston PD to boot! 🤣
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 24, 2025! Back next week with another edition!
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