Here’s the kitchen sink for March 7, 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 March 7, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews: Apparently, OpenAI’s newest and most capable traditional AI model, GPT-4.5, is big, expensive, and slow, providing marginally better performance than GPT-4o at 30x the cost for input and 15x the cost for output. So, now OpenAI is calling it a “Research Preview”. 🤣

Agreement in ESI Protocol to Produce All “Hits,” Without Review: Michael Berman discusses several cases on the EDRM blog where the idea of producing all documents with hits is agreed upon – or at least contemplated or disputed. He also includes my favorite example of search terms run amok – the BancPass case of 2016.

Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster: According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI language models now assist in writing up to a quarter of professional communications. Regions with lower educational attainment used AI writing tools more frequently (19.9 percent compared to 17.4 percent in higher-education areas). 🤔

‘You want me to get him’: Man used son’s Apple Watch to uncover proof his false arrest was plotted by cop sleeping with his ex-girlfriend, lawsuit says: The Apple Watch used to belong to the ex-girlfriend. Oops! 😁

Cybercrime crew stole then resold hundreds of tickets to Swift concerts, prosecutors say: The crew raked in more than $600,000 in profits over roughly a year between June 2022 and July 2023, according to prosecutors. Apparently, they weren’t “swift” enough to get away with it! 🤣

Requesting Parties Are Denied “Input” Into Producing Party OpenAI’s Search Terms: Michael Berman covers the latest dispute in the Tremblay v. OpenAI case – this one deals with plaintiffs’ proposed additional search terms: “only” 8 search strings, which (according to OpenAI) “consist of 362 search terms, hitting on an additional 345,000 documents beyond the over 640,000 documents that OpenAI has already agreed to review.”

‘My Dear Miss Glory, the Robots Are Not People,’ Says Judge In Yet Another Hallucinations Case: Bob Ambrogi is keeping up with the cases involving filings with hallucinated cases. In this one, the Court imposed a $2,500 sanction and ordered the lawyer to complete a CLE program on AI and legal ethics.

You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results: Google is testing a more substantial change to its search in the form of AI Mode. This version of Google won’t show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode. As I noted in this Kitchen Sink a few weeks ago, people are cursing the AI overviews, I can imagine how they’ll feel about this! 🤪

75% of U.S. government websites experienced data breaches: According to new research, 53.7% of U.S. government departments and agencies scored D or worse for their cybersecurity efforts, with 38.8% falling into the F category. Oh, and in addition to the 75% experiencing data breaches, almost 54% have had corporate credentials stolen, and 27% have employees reusing compromised passwords. And that’s with current funding! 😉

AI Oversight in Virginia: Understanding the High-Risk AI Developer and Deployer Act: As Rob Robinson notes in ComplexD, if Governor Glenn Youngkin signs HB 2094 into law, it will require AI system developers and deployers to adhere to stringent regulatory protocols to mitigate algorithmic discrimination and enhance transparency. Good idea!

How Can Your Smart Washer Pose a Threat to Your Privacy?: Apparently, LG stands for “Lotsa Gigabytes”! 🤣 Some guy revealed on X that his LG washing machine was sending over 150 megabytes of data every hour, 24/7, totaling more than 3 gigabytes per day! Is it gathering info about whether he uses boxers or briefs? No! It may be hacked, as LG’s application that their smart devices connect to had a discovered vulnerability years ago. To be brief (😁), over 50% of IoT devices are reported to have critical vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Wow.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 7, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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