Here’s the kitchen sink for June 20, 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 June 20, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
We’re up to 157 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, there’s a site that is tracking AI hallucination cases, so I will start showing an updated total weekly here.
Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results: I love the subtitle to this article: “Because you wanted this, right?” 🤣 Anyway, Google has brought those fake AI podcasts from NotebookLM to search results as a test. Instead of clicking links or reading the AI Overview, you can have two nonexistent people tell you what the results say. You’re welcome. 😉
All Metadata is Not Equal – Court Orders Narrower Request: It’s not that remarkable that the Court rejected the plaintiffs’ request for defendants to “produce metadata for all photos and emails they have produced thus far” to be too broad. What is interesting is that the Court applied its Principles for the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information in Civil Cases to do it. Michael Berman discusses the role of the ESI Principles (developed through the efforts of names like Grimm, Coulson and Ball) in this case in the EDRM blog.
Legal Tech in the Loop: Generative AI and the New Frontiers of Responsibility: Rob Robinson discusses the European Commission’s Generative AI Outlook Report and asks this question: “when legal outputs are produced by a machine, who answers for their accuracy, fairness, and consequences?” A look at the AI hallucination cases link above shows who isn’t doing it. 🤯
A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.: See, AI isn’t taking all our jobs (he said hopefully) – it’s giving some new jobs back to us. Notably, the author admits he first tried to use ChatGPT’s Deep Research mode to generate this article and then put it “in the style of The New York Times Magazine.” Ironic, given the current litigation between the two. He ultimately didn’t do it.
OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft: “That escalated quickly!” Apparently, OpenAI’s efforts to transition from its current nonprofit structure into a public benefit corporation are at the heart of the friction between the two. And this probably didn’t help either. 🤔
Henry Kissinger and His Last Book – GENESIS: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit: Ralph Losey covers the last book that Henry Kissinger ever wrote at the age of 100 on the EDRM blog (side note: I can’t wait to see what I’ll be writing when I’m 100! 🤣). Ralph’s discussion of the book made me want to read it – it might make you want to as well.
Puerto Rico Adopts Duty of Technology Competence with Rule that Goes Farther than ABA Model: Hooray, Puerto Rico! Bob Ambrogi covers the specifics of the separate rule – not a comment to Rule 1.1 but a whole new Rule 1.19 titled “Technological Competence and Diligence. 😁
Model Poisoning and Malware: GenAI’s Double-Edged Sword: Rob Robinson discusses the considerable challenges that GenAI creates from a cyber perspective and also how it’s being leveraged to address those challenges.
Navigating eDisclosure in the UK: Practice Direction 57AD, Scope, Challenges and a New Era: Interesting discussion by Maribel Rivera of the implementation of Practice Direction 57AD in the UK to streamline the disclosure process. While that happened back in October 2022, chances are many people don’t know about it or understand it.
U.S. Big Tech pushes for a 10-year ban on state regulation of Artificial Intelligence: “Big deal”, you say? Well, given that at least 45 states proposed AI-related bills in 2024, and 31 states and territories enacted AI laws or resolutions, it is. Even more notable in this article by Angela Delvecchio of Project Counsel Media is that the EU’s AI Act have “already fallen out of favor” and it looks like “the substantive parts of the much-lauded AI Act will be postponed.” Nobody puts AI in a corner. 😉
16 billion Apple, Facebook, Google and other passwords have been leaked. The biggest such leak ever.: Sigh. Time to change your passwords (again). Alan Radić of Project Counsel Media covers this Forbes article on perhaps “the grandaddy of them all” data breaches. Lord help us. 😩
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 20, 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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