Here’s the kitchen sink for November 14, 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 November 14, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 544 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.

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SharePoint Download vs. Purview Export Risks: Greg Buckles shares a “short technical note so that you can avoid the headache” that his client experienced. As Greg notes: “The most important note is that my client got NO errors on the zip truncation and the file processed on their eDiscovery platform even though it was corrupt. So incomplete downloads can slide through your workflow without good QC.”

Rise of the ‘porno-trolls’: how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers: What company is one of the most litigious companies in America? Strike 3 Holdings, which owns the intellectual property rights to a catalog of about 2,000 adult films and has made millions filing more than 20,000 boilerplate copyright lawsuits since 2017 against individual “John Does” they accuse of illegally downloading their content (Minerva26 has 1,750 rulings in those cases). They’ve never had one go to trial – most people pay a sum to ensure their anonymity.

Governing the Ungovernable: Corporate Boards Face AI Accountability Reckoning: Interesting article from Rob Robinson on ComplexDiscovery: “Nearly half of Fortune 100 companies now specifically cite AI risk as part of board oversight—triple the 16% that disclosed such oversight in the previous year, according to research from the EY Center for Board Matters. Yet only 11% of boards have approved annual budgets for AI projects, and just 23% have assessed how AI disruption might fundamentally reshape their business models, according to WTW research.​” That’s one reason why AI-related incidents are on the rise.

No Milestone Was Established in the ESI Protocol = No Milestone Existed: Michael Berman discusses this case on the EDRM blog between two pharma bohemoths – Glaxosmithkline and Pfizer – showing that when the latter moves for an order to compel GSK to propose terms “forthwith in compliance with the ESI Protocol”, GSK successfully defends it by pointing out that the “ESI Protocol does not impose any time limits for it to propose additional search terms”. I suspect that filed that response “forthwith”. 😉

Did the 2015 Deletion of “Not Reasonably Calculated” From Rule 26(b)(1) Change the Scope of Discovery?: Another good writeup from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog – this time, looking at the phrase “reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence”, which was removed from the Federal rules in 2015 and a case where the Court disagreed with the Defendant’s contention that Plaintiff’s use of the phrase was invalid. It has been used by parties and even judges numerous times since the Rules change – 2,134 times just in cases contained within Minerva26.

An AI Song Is Now Tops on a Billboard Country Chart: Now, we come to the “AI taking over our lives” portion of the week. The AI bot “Breaking Rust” holds the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Songs chart with its song “Walk My Walk”. Ironic, because I’m pretty sure the AI bot can’t walk. 😉 “Breaking Rust” now has more #1 hits than Zach Bryan, Lainey Wilson, and Riley Green combined.

Russian Robot Strolled Out to Rocky Theme, Fell on Its Face: Speaking of “can’t walk”, Russia’s debut of its first AI-powered humanoid robot (which was referenced as a “Putin look-alike”) fell flat on its face when being introduced to the iconic “Gonna Fly Now” theme from Rocky (with pieces breaking off of it). More like “gonna fall now”. 🤣 One online commenter said: “They did a great job of emulating the shuffle of a geriatric that’s had too much vodka”. The video is hilarious.

Ohio Teen Looked to ChatGPT After Killing Neighbor: Cops: A 14-year-old from Fairfax, Ohio, admitted to killing his 64-year-old neighbor after months of planning and online research reportedly using tools like ChatGPT and other search engines to research topics including how to “choose the perfect victim,” “how to strangle someone,” and how to avoid police detection. Sigh.

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?: With all the copyright litigation against AI companies, there hasn’t been much discussion of defamation cases against them when they publish information such as the case where Google’s AI reported that a company settled a lawsuit with the state attorney general over deceptive sales practices when it had never even been sued. Expect more cases like this in the future.

Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say: More of the dark side of AI – reportedly magnified by the school district’s response to the girl hitting the boy who she said created it. If ever there were extenuating circumstances, this is it. Keep in mind these are middle school kids. Sigh.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for November 14, 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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