Here’s the kitchen sink for August 8, 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 August 8, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 262 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, there’s a site that is tracking AI hallucination cases, so I am showing an updated total weekly here.

Eight Lessons for eDiscovery from Home Improvement Projects: Let’s start with a two-fer! Last week, Helen Geib debuted an excellent two-part blog series on the EDRM blog to relate eDiscovery lessons to home improvement projects. I missed it then but caught it when she published part two this week. So, here are five eDiscovery lessons to be learned from home improvement, and three more lessons in part two!

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results: Thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results (some of which included personal details) when users chose to share their chat in a public link. “When users clicked ‘Share,’ they were presented with an option to tick a box labeled ‘Make this chat discoverable.’ Beneath that, in smaller, lighter text, was a caveat explaining that the chat could then appear in search engine results.” Apparently, people were missing that part. Oops! 🤪 OpenAI has now reportedly removed the feature.

A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year. Then an AI System Spotted His Helmet: AI did in one afternoon what it takes humans weeks or months – analyze 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away to find a hiker that had been missing for more than 10 months so that they could recover his body. Pretty cool. 🙂

EU AI Act Under Fire: European Creators Warn of IP Risk and Regulatory Imbalance: Rob Robinson discusses the “formal dissatisfaction expressed by a coalition of 39 European creative industry organizations regarding the EU AI Act’s implementation” and the “significant rift between technological advancement and the protection of intellectual property rights” it has created. See – it happens there too.

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.: A computer science researcher weighed in on what could be a statistically relevant, appropriate sample size, suggesting that a sample of 20 million ChatGPT consumer conversations would be sufficient to determine how frequently ChatGPT users may be using the chatbot to regurgitate articles and circumvent news sites’ paywalls. NYT and other plaintiff news organizations want 120 million. Here’s a question: how are they going to review that all without AI? Just sayin’… 🤔

E-Discovery: How Much Data Do We Need to Keep?: Nice article with some good tips on data retention for eDiscovery on Information Week. One caveat – don’t click too quickly through to it – the site tells you that it processes personal data, so be sure to click on the much smaller link below the “Okay” button to tell it not to do that.

States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear: Fun fact to stump your friends – how many states have introduced AI-related legislation in 2025? The answer: All 50 of them. It’s probably a good thing Congress didn’t take away their ability to do that. 🙄

Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks: Google search head Liz Reid has penned a blog post in response to a recent Pew Research Center analysis that showed searches with AI Overviews resulted in lower click-through rates (which we covered a couple of weeks ago). She claims that – because of AI – the clicks are higher-quality clicks where people stay on a site longer. What’s missing? Any actual data to back up those claims. Marketing folks kinda need that. 🤣

Chris Cuomo mocked for response after falling for deepfake AOC video: There are some really convincing deepfakes on the internet. This one isn’t one of those – unless you’re Chris Cuomo. He shared and commented on a video that was prominently watermarked as a deepfake video for meme purposes. Dude! 🤣

Tea Dating App Breach Reveals Major Data Privacy Gaps in Rapidly Growing Platforms: This story from Rob Robinson is truly sad. Tea Dating Advice was developed to create a safe space where women could anonymously warn each other about potentially dangerous men. As Rob puts it: “But in a twist worthy of a Black Mirror episode, the very platform designed to protect women from predators became the vehicle for their mass exposure. The breach that unfolded over several days in mid-2025 didn’t just leak data—it shattered the fundamental trust upon which the entire platform was built.” At least 72,000 images and 1.1 million direct messages leaked – many of a sensitive nature. The “troubling gaps in their data governance” has led to five federal class-action lawsuits being consolidated so far. What a sad mess. 🤯

Sanctions for Loss of ESI Imposed Under Court’s Inherent Power After Privilege Log is Used to Determine the Date that the Duty to Preserve Was Triggered: Mike Berman’s title on his blog post on the EDRM blog says it all – another interesting case! 😁

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for August 8, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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