Here’s the kitchen sink for April 4, 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 April 4, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

6 Tips for Copilot: Several good tips for using Copilot from the Traveling Coaches, including this one: “Think of #Copilot and other GenAI tools as a content accelerator, not a finished product generator.” Great advice.

The Disease Was About to Kill Him. AI Intervened: A great news AI story! Doctors are using AI to pore over existing drugs in search of ones that can be used to treat rare diseases, with some patients that were to the point of entering hospice care becoming better to the point of going into remission with treatments suggested by AI. 💘

Dating App Breach Exposes 900K Users: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity: And by “exposes”, Rob Robinson means literally. Approximately 1.5 million explicit images from users of BDSM People, Pink, Translove, Chica, and Brish were stored on Google Cloud Storage without adequate protection. These applications, developed by M.A.D Mobile Apps Developers Limited, failed to secure highly sensitive user data, resulting in substantial risk exposure to over 800,000 to 900,000 users globally. Ruh-roh! 😬

5 Legal Tech Solutions Your Senior Partners Will Love: The author here advocates bringing back fax machines, sticky notes, the Bates numbering machine and more to appease senior partners. Or does he? There’s a clue to how he really feels about the topic at the top of the post.

How Not to Conduct a Meet and Confer or Comply With an ESI Protocol: When a judge says: “The Court will not hold another hearing in this case as the parties do not deserve one. They have wasted enough of the Court’s time with their discovery shenanigans”, that says something. Michael Berman discusses this wild case on the EDRM blog.

Hugging the Boogeyman: AI Is Not a Trap, It’s a Safety Net: The subtitle on this article on Legaltech News^® by Todd Itami says it all: “With basic attorney training and achievable deployment, AI will reduce the risk of malpractice in 2025, not expand it. Responsible adoption hinges on a principle already deeply embedded in legal ethics and practice: diligence in verifying and securing information sources should be proportional to the significance of use.” It’s so simple! 🤔

Shoosmiths to offer £1m firmwide bonus pot if staff meet AI usage targets: What are those targets? One million Microsoft Copilot prompts over next year, meaning each prompt is worth £1. As Jeffrey Brandt noted on Pinhawk: “I wonder if anyone on staff realizes they can get AI to write those prompts?” Maybe they do now, Jeff? 😉

The Curse of Knowledge: Effective Communication When You Know Too Much: What’s a sign that you know too much about a topic? When you forget to explain the basics to someone who doesn’t know it. Know your audience.

DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world: Researchers at DeepMind have been working on this problem and have released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely. It contains a huge amount of detail, clocking in at 108 pages before references. Which tells me that they know too much. 😉

Creating and sharing deceptive AI-generated media is now a crime in New Jersey: Good job, New Joisey! 😁 Not only that, but New Jersey joins a growing list of states enacting measures taking aim at media created using generative AI. At least 20 states have passed similar legislation that targets such media involving elections. Which means we have around 30 states that need to get it together – ASAP!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 4, 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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