Here’s the kitchen sink for July 3, 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 July 3, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 168 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.

Defendant’s Prejudice From Plaintiff’s Failure to Disclose Photographs Taken by Defendant Was Insufficient to Support an Exclusionary Discovery Sanction: This week’s case law ruling from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. The title explains what happened. 😉

Reddit CEO pledges site will remain “written by humans and voted on by humans”: While Reddit still won’t require users to post under their real names, they will seek to use services that will provide verification “you’re a human without knowing your name.” This is why they have multimillion dollar partnerships with Google and OpenAI to train their LLMs on its content, and are suing Anthropic for claimed scraping of their content.

Managing Emerging Data in eDiscovery: Lessons from LegalTechTalk 2025: Rob Robinson’s recap of a session at LegalTechTalk 2025 on an important eDiscovery topic. Here’s one eye-popping stat: Relativity reported a 430% increase in short message data volumes between 2022 and 2023, illustrating the scale and acceleration of this shift. Wow. 🤯

Microsoft Sued By Authors In Latest AI Copyright Lawsuit: Plaintiffs allege Microsoft used nearly 200,000 pirated books to create its Megatron AI to respond to human prompts (side note: why have I never heard of Megatron AI?). Let’s see if they’ll learn any lessons from the Anthropic and Meta AI copyright rulings that occurred last week.

Copilot Automatic Summaries: eDiscovery Risk: Greg Buckles provides useful information on how to turn off Copilot’s automatic summaries, which are being saved and are retrievable in Purview eDiscovery – with a kind mention of my write up about the capability from last year – thanks Greg!

Big Bill’s AI Regulatory Ban Was Shot Down 99-1: The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI. Sanity prevails for a change. Well, except for North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, who was the only one who voted to keep it.

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors: Stephen Abram’s coverage of a story from The Neuron. The AI didn’t just beat doctors at diagnosis. It did it cheaper. U.S. healthcare spending is approaching 20% of GDP, with up to 25% wasted on unnecessary tests and procedures. Consider me skeptical that any of those savings make it down to the patients. 🙄

Should We Restrict the Use of AI in Law School?: The author here counter-argues against himself, where he previously argued that law schools should make AI more central to the curriculum. Now, he argues that encouraging law students and young lawyers to use AI too much, too soon will prevent them from developing the skills they need to do their jobs effectively—or even to be any good at using AI itself. Make up your mind, will ‘ya? 😉

Emojis Show You Care, Research Suggests: I ❤️ this article! A study found that people who receive messages with emojis see their conversation partners as more responsive. 😇 That’s something to celebrate! 🎉

Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories: The policy was announced after Teresa Harmon, vice president of legal news at LexisNexis (which owns Law360) accused the newsroom of bias in its Trump administration coverage. The Law360 Union, which represents over 200 editorial staffers across the 350-person newsroom, has denounced the mandate since it went into effect in mid-May. The AI is flagging content like “It’s the first time in 60 years that a president has mobilized a state’s National Guard without receiving a request to do so from the state’s governor” and a sentence describing experts who said a workplace discrimination ruling came “at a key time in U.S. employment law” as potentially critical of the administration or “suggesting a perspective”. We certainly don’t want our writers to have perspectives now, do we? 😉 This article is from Angela Delvecchio at Project Counsel Media, here’s also Joe Patrice’s discussion of the topic (as only Joe can).

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 3, 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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