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Here is the kitchen sink for December 5, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 643 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.

The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%: Ralph Losey breaks down this story as only he can – in depth. Autonomous AI agents have a place for specific tasks within a human-managed workflow – case in point: eDiscovery document review where classifications can be performed by AI agents, but with human guidance and QC to ensure valid results. Context is key here, IMO.

Leaders Assume Employees Are Excited About AI. They’re Wrong.: HBR says that “In our recent survey of 1,400 U.S.-based employees, 76% of executives reported that their employees feel enthusiastic about AI adoption in their organization. But the view from the bottom up is less sunny: Just 31% of individual contributors expressed enthusiasm about adopting AI.” Organizations need to listen to their employees more.

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide: OpenAI responds in this case, also citing selected chats from the teen’s chat history that indicate he’d begun experiencing suicidal ideation at age 11, long before he used the chatbot. OpenAI also said it was limiting the amount of “sensitive evidence” made available to the public, due to its intention to handle mental health-related cases with “care, transparency, and respect.” Plaintiff’s lawyer called OpenAI’s response “disturbing.”

Thankful for Human Oversight? MIT’s Iceberg Index Reveals the AI Already Beneath Us: Iceberg, right ahead? No, it’s underneath us, as Rob Robinson notes in his coverage of The Iceberg Index: Measuring Workforce Exposure Across the AI Economy, a report from MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed in partnership with state AI policy offices. The report reveals that nearly 12% of the U.S. labor market’s wage value—especially in high-compliance sectors like finance and administration—can already be executed by AI agents. AI is only taking over about 2.2% so far, so the gap between 2.2% and 11.7% is the real iceberg. I’ll repeat what I’ve said before: AI replaces tasks, not jobs, so the jobs with the highest variety of tasks are the safest.

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out: To no one’s surprise, OpenAI is testing ads. Add “ads” to the Ben Franklin phrase: “nothing is certain, except death and taxes”. I can’t exactly throw stones at them for that one, now can I? 😉

ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users: Hey, at least you’re not seeing ads! 🤣

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months: Hopefully, he means the emergency kind and not the A Few Good Men kind, or OpenAI won’t be a very fun place to work. Is this a sign that Sam Altman “can’t handle the truth”? 😉

Microsoft Roadmap: Q4 2025: The latest update from Greg Buckles (who was terrific yesterday as a panelist on our eDiscovery Day webinar). Greg boils down 374 new features announced since September to “8 features that I felt had potential eDiscovery impact”, so you don’t have to sift through them all. You’re welcome.

The Hidden Cost Center No One Understands: Why 40% of Legal Pros Still Misunderstand eDiscovery: A recent Exterro survey on data management technology discussed on the EDRM blog found that only 40% of legal professionals could accurately define what eDiscovery is. Doesn’t that mean that it’s actually 60% who still misunderstand eDiscovery? Regardless, that’s a sign we need to work harder.

Motion to Compel Production of Native Files Denied: Did you think you were going to miss out on a post from Michael Berman this week? Not a chance. This week, he discusses this ruling on the EDRM blog, which dealt with a request for production of “security-sensitive ‘configuration’ files”. Defendant claimed it “offered to make the files available for review at a deposition”, which seems very fair to me, but plaintiff apparently never responded, even after the offer was renewed.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for December 5, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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