Here’s the kitchen sink for April 25, 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 25, 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 again 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.

An AI-Assisted Look At Four New Surveys On AI Adoption In Law: How Do They Compare? Differ?: Terrific look at four legal AI surveys by Bob Ambrogi, who (as the title states) uses AI to illustrate their similarities and differences. Nice! 😁

The Zoom attack you didn’t see coming: Wow, this one is scary! It involves a threat actor from a legitimate looking organization contacting potential victims and inviting them to be a guest on their podcast. If they accept and join a Zoom call started by the attacker, they are at some point prompted to share their screen to present their work, at which point the threat actor will use Zoom to request control over the potential victim’s computer using a display name they changed to “Zoom” to make the victim thinking the platform is asking for control. Then, they proceed to install malware. Watch out!

Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone: Apparently, some people think that ChatGPT is too nice and a big suckup. Wonder if that’s costing OpenAI millions too? 🤔

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience: Of course they do! Who doesn’t? It’s only made Google a bazillion dollars over the years. The question is: will Google have to give it up after losing its antitrust trial?

Afraid of AI? Learn the Seven Cardinal Dangers and How to Stay Safe: Great post by Ralph Losey on the EDRM blog, who breaks down the seven key dangers AI presents in a number of ways, even tying them to the seven cardinal sins, also called the seven deadly sins!

Discovery Rulings in Abrego-Garcia v. Noem Deportation Case: Cases in the news also have discovery disputes too! Michael Berman covers this one on the EDRM blog.

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads: Another potential suitor for Google Chrome – this one has a back-up plan to develop their own browser, so that it can track everything we do to ensure we see ads tailored to our interests. It’s for our benefit, yeah, that’s the ticket! 😉

State Bar of California admits it asked non-lawyers to use AI to develop exam questions, triggering a furor across California: This story is getting a LOT of coverage, including this story from Project Counsel Media. Apparently, the California State Bar, to save money because they were $22 million in debt, employed a company to have a non-lawyer use AI to draft questions that were given on the actual bar exam. They then paid that same company to assess and ultimately approve of the questions on the exam, including the questions the company authored. Hope they weren’t ethics questions! 😬

From Consent or Pay to AI Oversight: EDPB Expands Its Regulatory Reach in 2024: Rob Robinson discusses The European Data Protection Board (EDPB)’s Annual Report for 2024, released earlier this week, and how the EDBP has integrated its efforts with new EU legislation such as the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, and most prominently, the AI Act.

AI still can’t beat humans at reading social cues: Score one for humans! At least for now. Then again, I’ve known many humans that are often not good at it either; in fact, I may be one of those humans. 😳

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 25, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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