Here’s the kitchen sink for June 27, 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 27, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 161 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.

Staying Curious: One Practical Defense Against Creative Burnout: Rob Robinson covers this terrific article from Forbes Communications Council. Here’s one notable item: “An April 2025 Fast Company report highlighted that curiosity, when embedded into leadership culture, can become a dynamic force for innovation. It’s about reframing how challenges are approached and solved.” Couldn’t agree more.

Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users: Remember that court order for OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats (which we covered here)? Users are starting to submit requests to override it, including one user who uses ChatGPT “from time to time,” occasionally sending OpenAI “highly sensitive personal and commercial information in the course of using the service.” Maybe he should stop doing that, just sayin’. 🤯

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun: Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times. Well, if AI is going to put people out of work, the least it could do is automate job applications for them. 😉

Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?: This one made me chuckle, discussing a Meta AI ad where a woman tells her boyfriend her father is a thermodynamicist at NASA. The boyfriend gets help from Meta in understanding what that is as he moves around from place to place during the course of his day. The author asks a simple question: Why doesn’t he ask his girlfriend what a thermodynamicist is? (She should know: That’s what her dad does.)

AI was born at a US summer camp 68 years ago. Here’s why that event still matters today: A good history lesson on where and when “AI” was born. It’s even older than me, which is saying something. 😉

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models: At least they acquired those books legally. The 7 million books they allegedly pirated (which were discussed in their copyright ruling this week) are another matter.

Panel of Experts for Everyone About Anything – Part One: As he discusses on the EDRM blog, Ralph Losey has built a custom GPT and made it available for anyone to use. Color me intrigued. In part two, he will provide a demo of it.

Two Courts Rule On Generative AI and Fair Use — One Gets It Right: The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in on the Anthropic and Meta AI copyright rulings that occurred this week. See if you can guess which one they liked – before reading the article. 🤔

The EU’s Legal Tech Tipping Point – AI Regulation, Data Sovereignty, and eDiscovery in 2025: Follow-up article to last week’s article by Maribel Rivera (both were also co-written by Melina Efstathiou). Good comprehensive discussion of legal tech in the EU today.

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy: Starts with an interactive graphic that states: “Artificial intelligence has long threatened to transform elections around the world. Now there is evidence from at least 50 countries that it already has.” Provides several examples from all over the world, including in and relating to the US.

Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(g) Was Violated by Permitting Client Searches With Minimal Oversight by Counsel: The week wouldn’t be complete without at least one case law story from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. This one covers a problem we still see a lot – self-collection which is unmanaged by counsel.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 27, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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