Here’s the kitchen sink for May 30, 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 May 30, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

FBI warns of Luna Moth extortion attacks targeting law firms: This has nothing to do with the Mothman Prophecies, but rather the Silent Ransom Group, which has been targeting U.S. law firms over the last two years in callback phishing and social engineering attacks. This article tells you what you need to know about them.

Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4: Very interesting article about how an expert (independent AI researcher Simon Willison, who coined the term “prompt injection” in 2022) used that technique to publish a detailed analysis of Anthropic’s newly released system prompts for Claude 4’s Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models, offering insights into how Anthropic controls the models’ “behavior” through their outputs. Pretty cool stuff! 😁

Wired for Progress: How Ireland and OpenAI Are Scaling Intelligence, Infrastructure, and Innovation: Rob Robinson reports from the Dublin Tech Summit with an interesting recap of (among other things) an interview with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on the economics and ethics of large-scale AI adoption. “This year we’ll consume about 1.8 gigawatts,” Friar revealed, a nearly tenfold increase from just a few years ago. That’s gotta be even more than 1.21 jigawatts! 🤣

It’s too expensive to fight every AI copyright battle, Getty CEO says: According to Getty Images CEO Craig Peters, Getty has dumped millions into just one copyright fight against Stability AI. Hmmm, maybe that could lead to instability for Getty! See what I did there? 🤔

Streamlining E-Discovery Using Arbitration: Good article on the benefits of optimizing eDiscovery practices and procedures for arbitration (from a judge and an experienced JAMS neutral), and tips for doing so.

Evidence shows AI systems are already too much like humans. Will that be a problem?: Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. 😉

AI Can Improve Great Lawyers—But It Can’t Replace Them: Ralph Losey provides a thorough argument on the EDRM blog as to what AI won’t be able to do that great lawyers can.

Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan: This article ties into three of my posts this week, involving AI-generated evidence, how hard it is to spot deepfakes, and Japan’s new AI Promotion bill. Not sure the Japan bill does anything to address this issue. At least one alleged deepfake porn creator in Australia is facing a $450,000 fine for publishing them.

Lawyers Using Generative AI Models Must Remember Their Training: Interesting article that posits that “Lawyers are taught early that the critical aspect of success in litigation is the question, not the answer” and says: “The same concept applies to creating a prompt for a generative AI model.” When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about lawyers using their training to verify the content that goes into a court filing. 🤣

Obstructionist Discovery is Called Out by Court: When a Court says that a party’s “objection that it did not understand the request [for production of documents] as phrased is disingenuous at best and frankly appears more likely to be intentionally obstructionist”, it sounds Michael Berman has found another terrific lack of cooperation story, which he discusses on the EDRM blog. 😊

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 30, 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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