Here’s the kitchen sink for March 21, 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 21, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

How Courts Are Addressing AI-Generated Content in Discovery Disputes: Missed this last week, but Kelly Twigger discusses several considerations for discovery of AI-generated content, noting that “AI Training Data Is a New eDiscovery Battleground”, which we saw in this case and will likely see in many others.

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time: The most accurate model to emerge from these tests was Perplexity, which still answered 37 percent of its questions incorrectly. “The village idiot award, meanwhile, goes to Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok 3, which was wrong a staggering 94 percent of the time.” Whoops! I find it ironic that Perplexity winds up as the least perplexing. 🤣 And, in Google Gemini’s defense, Ariana Grande really did say Lady Gaga is two days older than her. 😉

LegalWeek 2025 Sponsor-Exhibitor Metrics: Greg Buckles has been keeping track of Legalweek sponsor and exhibitor counts since 2008! Find out how many there are this year, as well as Greg’s sessions of note to check out (including one he’s speaking in).

Sam Altman: “It’s over if we can’t steal all your copyrighted work”. So Altman is pushing a legal end-around.: One of many articles (this one, from Alexander Dumont of Project Counsel Media) about OpenAI’s (and Google’s) request for the White House to enact federal regulations defining “fair use”, so that all those pesky copyright infringement cases can go away. Of course, OpenAI has accused DeepSeek of improperly using its data without permission – a point the company failed to bring up in its policy proposal, “probably because it feels embarrassingly hypocritical.” 😁

Jaguar Land Rover Breached: The Persistent Threat of Ransomware in the Automotive Industry: Ironically, the ransomware group that breached them is called HELLCAT (see what I did there?). 😉 Rob Robinson gives us the low down on the breach and what we need to know about it.

Possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery may be protected by First Amendment in some cases, judge rules: WTF! 😡 Prosecutors alleged that the dude used “Stable Diffusion to create over 13,000 images depicting child sexual abuse by entering text prompts into the technology that then generated fake images depicting non-real children.” Federal prosecutors are appealing – praying this decision does not stand.

Hope for the Future: How Students Are Defining the Best Use of AI: We need something hopeful after that last story! And we get it in a terrific article from Hon. Judge Ralph Artigliere (ret.) on the EDRM blog where he discusses that: “Without the same legal training or years of professional experience, the next generation appears to be more attuned to ethical AI use than many attorneys.” Let’s hope so!

Generative artificial intelligence is supercharging legal analytics: Interesting article from Danielle Braff on the ABA Journal about uses and perks of generative AI you might not know about.

Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average: Does Gates Dogfish know about this?!? Seriously, though, I don’t think any robot can find more humor in eDiscovery themes than he can! 💘

Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids: You know that trend where people are looking themselves up on ChatGPT to see what it has to say about them. A Norwegian man did that and “was shocked when ChatGPT responded with outputs falsely claiming that he was sentenced to 21 years in prison as ‘a convicted criminal who murdered two of his children and attempted to murder his third son’. Even worse news for OpenAI: this has GDPR violation implications.

White House Seeks to Contain Damage From Personal Data in Kennedy Files: Social Security numbers, including for some people still living, were included in the 64,000 pages of documents that the Trump administration released this week. Yet another problem that could have been avoided by the use of an eDiscovery solution.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 21, 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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