Here’s the kitchen sink for April 18, 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 18, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey 1H 2025: I’ll start with an appeal to take the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey from ComplexDiscovery, which is apparently now being conducted twice a year instead of quarterly. Even more reason to take it, especially in these economically challenging times.

Is ChatGPT Plus worth your $20? Here’s how it compares to Free and Pro plans: The latest comparison of the different ChatGPT plans, which will be valid for a hot minute until OpenAI changes the plans again. 😉 Still, it’s a useful look at the different options. Hat tip to Stephen Abram for this one.

2025 Legal AI Report: Key Insights from ACEDS + Secretariat: Notably, 80% of legal industry respondents now rate themselves as very or somewhat knowledgeable about AI. And 74% anticipate their jobs will involve using AI technologies in the next 12 months.

Cost Transparency in Legal Tech: Building Trust Without Overexposing Value: Rob Robinson discusses the academic paper Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency, which makes the case that cost transparency builds trust, which leads to a greater willingness to buy. Sadly, I think it will take more than that for most eDiscovery providers to start being transparent on cost, but it’s a great concept.

Google made an AI model to talk to dolphins: The new large language model is called DolphinGemma. And, yes, they did it on porpoise! 🤣

The Three Cs of Teaching Technology to Law Students: Great post by Bob Ambrogi on what we should be doing to get aspiring lawyers to understand technology. I would swap the order of the first two, but I think they’re all spot on. So, what are the three Cs? Check out his article.

Microsoft Pushes Ahead With Launch Of ‘Recall’ AI Snapshots: At least this time, they’re going to make it an opt-in feature instead of defaulting it to be on. Until they don’t. 😉

When AI Gets Personal: Legal Implications of Artificial Intimacy: Rob Robinson provides a “concise exploration of artificial intimacy, emphasizing the implications for those working in legal technology, privacy, and information governance.” Intimate relationships with your AI? It has already happened and Rob covers the topic from several different angles.

An ESI Protocol Saved the Day for the Discovering Party: See, we told you that ESI protocols are a good thing! Michael Berman covers this case on the EDRM blog which gets into a “dump truck” production of non-searchable static images and the ESI protocol’s provision that enables the requesting party to “seek supplemental production of native files for any produced images that are deemed unusable, unsearchable, or unduly burdensome”. Boom! 😁

AI-Powered Spear Phishing Can Now Outperform Human Attackers: Researchers state that in 2023, AI-powered phishing was 31% less effective than humans. In November 2024, it was 10% less effective than humans. Then in March 2025, the AI was 24% more effective than humans. Ruh-roh. 😬

Custom GPTs: Why Constant Updating Is Essential for Relevance and Performance: The title from Ralph Losey on the EDRM blog is self-explanatory, but Ralph (as usual) provides an in-depth discussion of the topic. He also provides links to some of his own custom GPTs, including his Visual Muse that he has used to create some amazing pictures for his blog posts! I used it to create an image with this prompt: “Show a black Labrador jumping up in a suburban kitchen to catch a dog biscuit thrown by a middle-aged man with a beard.” And, after a couple of follow-up questions, this is what it generated:

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 18, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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