Here’s the kitchen sink for March 14, 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 14, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Big Tech on Trial: DOJ Shifts Strategy in Google Antitrust Case: As Rob Robinson notes: “The DOJ…continues to pursue a court order that would mandate the divestment of Google’s Chrome browser…This proposal intends to dismantle Google’s alleged illegal search monopoly, an issue first aggressively addressed during President Donald Trump’s first administration and continued under President Joe Biden’s oversight.” When both parties are pursuing you, that says something. 🤯

Why Great Leaders Share Responsibility Instead of Throwing Others Under the Bus: Amen to that! We’ve all worked for the latter type of boss – or will at some point. Great read.

Software developer convicted of creating ‘kill switch’ code after losing his job: Sometimes, the greatest company threat to your systems and security is within – this story illustrates an example of that.

Transforming Challenges Into Opportunities: The Case for Durable Skills in 2025: One of two terrific articles this week from Sheila Grela on the EDRM blog, discussing what durable skills are and why they matter. Her other post, on Trial Exhibit Management is here.

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts: We act as though all potential discovery issues for long-existing data formats are solved. This article discusses how LLM-based OCR is attempting to improve data capture from PDFs that have content that’s not automatically extracted.

Tech Fears, Obsolete E-discovery Case Law and AI’s Takeover: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Xavier Rodriguez: Interview with U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez, who (as usual) tells it like he sees it, including how judges rely on cases (such as hyperlinked files cases) without a full understanding that the cases may be technologically obsolete by the time they’re analyzing the issue. Couldn’t agree more.

Netflix’s AI ‘fix’ turned an 80s sitcom into a horror movie: Written by the aptly named Natalie Fear (😉), apparently Netflix tried to use AI to give the 80s sitcom A Different World a polished appeal and got “a disarray of warped text and melted faces” instead. Oops. 🤪

Properly Scoping an E-Discovery Project: Terrific discussion of a project management skill by the person who literally wrote the book on eDiscovery project management – ACEDS president Mike Quartararo – expanding on the presentation he gave at the UF-Law E-Discovery conference last month.

AI doesn’t really ‘learn’ – and knowing why will help you use it more responsibly: And by “learn”, the author means not the way we do. After all, the “P” in ChatGPT stands for “pre-trained”. 🤔

New Battle of the Bots: ChatGPT 4.5 Challenges Reigning Champ ChatGPT 4o: Ralph Losey once again compares AI models on the EDRM blog. So, which one “wins” on tests, including: metacognitive insight, subtle humor and wit, substantive depth in AI and law and practical guidance on AI hallucinations? Check out the article to find out!

Meta Faces Lawsuit in France Over AI Copyright Infringement Allegations: Another week, another lawsuit against an AI company over copyright infringement – this one by several French publishing associations alleging “economic parasitism” (a French legal doctrine penalizing unfair commercial exploitation of another’s investments or creations). Rob Robinson has the story on this case.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 14, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Which story is your favorite one? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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