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Here is the kitchen sink for July 11, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 207 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.

‘Positive review only’: Researchers hide AI prompts in papers: After my post yesterday on prompt injection, Josh Schwartz shared a link to this story in the comments of the LinkedIn post. Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries — including Japan, South Korea and China — contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to only give them good reviews. Voilà – there’s an example of prompt injection for you!

AI, Talent, and the eDiscovery Edge: Maribel Rivera covers the report from The LegalTech Fund titled Future of Talent Development for the Age of AI (available here) on the ACEDS blog, which discusses the importance of AI literacy in today’s legal world.

Krispy Kreme data breach sparks class action lawsuit: The plaintiff class claims that Krispy Kreme’s security program was full of holes. 🤣

‘Puzzlingly defiant’: Judge sanctions Mike Lindell’s lawyers over AI-generated filing rife with cites to nonexistent cases, excoriates their ‘troubling’ explanation: I’d say the title pretty much says it all here! 😉 Except that co-counsel was fined $3,000 each for the latest AI hallucination fiasco. Hat tip to Judge Andrew Peck for the heads up on the story.

AI Blackouts Are Coming: How Law Firms Can Maintain Enterprise Operations During Agent Grid Failure: Jennifer Case discusses Google Cloud’s recent three hour outage and how similar incidents could paralyze a law firm. It identifies six failure scenarios every law firm should plan for, and five essential steps to avoid them. Good article!

Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and U.S. officials: An impostor posing as Secretary of State Marco Rubio had attempted to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. senator and a governor. Sadly, the only surprise is that this didn’t happen sooner. 😬

Elon Musk’s Grok AI echoes antisemitic tropes after latest ‘politically incorrect’ update: Users were able to goad the AI tool into saying the Nazi slogan, “Heil Hitler,” mock the Anti-Defamation League, and agree to “shipping the Jews back home to Saturn.” Another X user threatened to sue after he claimed the chatbot posted about sexually assaulting him in graphic and profane posts. 🙄

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’: Amazingly, this still happens. As many as 64 million records were exposed, including applicants’ names, email addresses, and phone numbers due to the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. And this wasn’t the only security flaw. Fortunately, they were ethical hackers who pointed them out to the site builder, and they rectified the situation. Lesson learned: hold your third party providers to a high security standard – they can cost you big time!

Application of Work-Product Doctrine to Materials Prepared Years After Incident: The interesting thing about this week’s case law blog post from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog is that the dispute wasn’t about whether the documents were work product – it was about whether they were opinion or fact work product (the latter being entitled to lesser protection, the defendants asserted).

European Commission Unveils General-Purpose AI Code of Practice Ahead of AI Act Enforcement: Unveiled by the European Commission on July 10, the voluntary Code is the product of collaboration among 13 independent experts and shaped by the insights of over 1,000 stakeholders. Rob Robinson hits the highlights of it in his post here.

Avoiding the Third Rail of Legal AI: Don’t Let the Machine Think for You: Judge Ralph Artigliere (ret.) discusses what we should already know, but at least 207 of us (see above) have failed to grasp. A great read nonetheless with a good term to use in describing how to treat AI: “treat AI as a co-intelligence, not as a substitute for our professional judgment.” Well said, your honor!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 11, 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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