Here’s the kitchen sink for October 17, 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 October 17, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 449 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, here’s what’s causing all these AI hallucinations and how to fix it, IMHO.

Also, the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, conducted by ComplexDiscovery and Rob Robinson is still going on! Please consider participating here!

OpenAI will stop saving most ChatGPT users’ deleted chats: OpenAI can finally stop saving most ChatGPT users’ deleted and temporary chats after a court fight compelled the AI firm to retain the logs “indefinitely.” The balance between discovery preservation and privacy concerns continues.

Even the best AI agents are thwarted by this protocol – what can be done: I hadn’t heard of the artificial intelligence middleware known as Model Context Protocol. This article goes into depth about it, the challenges it’s causing, and what we may need to do to enable the models to handle it better.

Definition and Application the Crime-Fraud Exception to A-C Privilege: This case coverage by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog discusses how the Court conducted an in camera review of 46 documents and stated: “Plaintiffs have provided sufficient email evidence Defendants’ attorneys were materially and significantly involved in the concealment and false or misleading representations.” As Michael notes: “Plaintiffs have provided sufficient email evidence Defendants’ attorneys were materially and significantly involved in the concealment and false or misleading representations.”

You can test Microsoft’s new in-house AI image generator model now – here’s how: In a blog post published Monday, Microsoft introduced its new image generator model dubbed MAI-Image-1. In training this new model, the company boasted that it strived to avoid repetitive or generic output. To assist with this goal, Microsoft solicited feedback from creative professionals. The end result should be images that more closely mirror real-world examples. Yup, here’s another one! 😉

Don’t Think Your Law Firm Needs AI? Your Clients Do: If the title doesn’t get your attention as a member of a law firm, this terrific article by Julia Jimenez should – it does a great job of discussing how client sentiment about AI is changing quickly and how law firms can increase their client value proposition.

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026: This week’s sign of the apocalypse. People who use either of DirecTV’s two Gemini streaming devices will start seeing the ads “in early 2026,” per the announcement.

“Discovery on Discovery” Ordered After Amazon’s Flawed Implementation of Litigation Hold: The second of two terrific case law discussions by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. When a party is ordered to produce their litigation hold notices, that’s a bad sign. It can happen to anybody – even mega-companies like Amazon.

Europe Under Siege: How Cybercriminals and State Actors Are Rewriting Digital Threat Rules: Rob Robinson continues to deliver excellent stories regarding cybersecurity trends – this one covers the findings from The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity’s (ENISA) latest Threat Landscape report.

ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says: Scratch the above – this story is this week’s sign of the apocalypse. I love the Ars Technica sub-title: “Rated C for Chat”. 🤣

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”: Double-scratch the above: this story is really this week’s sign of the apocalypse – literally. 🤯

The OpenAI copyright infringement litigation is offering a Master Class in eDiscovery practice – to OpenAI’s chagrin: Based on the title, you know I had to cover this story from Angela Delvecchio at Project Counsel Media! Slack messages related to deleting the Library Genesis (LibGen) data set were found to be not privileged by the Court because most of them are “plainly devoid of any request for legal advice”. Not only that, but the plaintiffs asked the judge for access to the communications between OpenAI and its attorneys by invoking a “crime-fraud” exemption to privilege. Déjà vu all over again! I’ll look to say more about this one in the next week or so.

Chatbots Are a Waste of A.I.’s Real Potential: “If the strengths of A.I. are to truly be harnessed, the tech industry should stop focusing so heavily on these one-size-fits-all tools, and instead concentrate on narrow, specialized A.I. tools engineered for particular problems. Because, frankly, they’re often more effective.” Essentially, the same thing I said earlier this week about the tools being “jack of all trades, master of none”. Gary Marcus, the founder of two AI companies and author of this article, agrees with me. 😁

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for October 17, 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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