This week’s kitchen sink for January 23, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses whether lawyers should be required to know GenAI, a privilege log as evidence, ChatGPT vs. Gemini & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for January 23 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 823 AI hallucination cases and counting (including this one we suggested)! As I discussed in this post, here’s what’s causing all these AI hallucinations and how to fix it, IMHO.

Is It Time To Require Lawyers To Be Competent With GenAI?: Given the above number, Stephen Embry asks a very appropriate question – and makes the case for the answer being “yes”. Can we add mandatory eDiscovery skills for litigation attorneys too? Asking for a friend… 😉

Elon Musk’s xAI Sued by Mom of One of His Kids: Even though Grok claims they’ve finally decided to do something about creating sexualized images of women and children, this story just won’t die. Now, Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14(!) known children, is taking his company xAI to federal court, accusing it of enabling sexualized deepfake images of her and then failing to stop them (even after saying her images would no longer be used or altered without her consent). xAI filed a counter-suit against St. Clair, alleging she violated terms of service by filing her lawsuit in New York rather than Texas. Grok apparently created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to The New York Times.

A Privilege Log Can Be Admissible Evidence: Who knew? Michael Berman did – that’s who. Michael discusses this case on the EDRM blog that establishes under what conditions the Plaintiff can use Defendant’s privilege log. Interesting.

Worried about AI privacy? This new tool from Signal’s founder adds end-to-end encryption to your chats: Want a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT? Meet Confer! See what I did there? 🤣 It says it provides end-to-end encryption for AI chats and never trains on your data. Intriguing.

OpenAI rolls out age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age: They’re trying to detect your age and apply possible safety-related restrictions to prevent misuse by teens. For now, if you are logged in, you can start age verification here: https://chatgpt.com/verify_age and you could be asked for either a life selfie or a government ID (which they claim will be deleted within 7 days). Sounds optional for now, but I could see it becoming mandatory to protect them against lawsuits related to underage suicides.

Effective Advocacy 101 in the Age of eDiscovery and AI: A Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients: Judge Ralph Artigliere does a great job of discussing four advocacy principles (e.g., “Try the case you have, not the one you wish you had”) on the EDRM blog and asks what AI changes, what it does not, and where it raises the stakes. Terrific article! 😊

Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.: Ars Technica compared default models of ChatGPT 5.2 for OpenAI and Gemini 3.2 Fast for Google across eight different prompts. I won’t spoil the outcome – see for yourself!

OpenAI seeking investments from Middle East sovereign wealth funds for multibillion-dollar round: This time, they’re seeking around $50 billion. Hey, what happened to the $40 billion we gave you back in March, OpenAI? Asking for a (very rich) friend… 😉

You Got Phished? Of Course! You’re Human…: In a candid account, a well-known security expert and author admitted that he repeatedly failed his own company’s internal phishing simulations—despite years of experience, training, and awareness. Experts are not immune to phishing schemes.

White House AI Report: A Wake-Up Call for Legal Tech: Rob Robinson covers the 26-page White House Council of Economic Advisers report released this month, titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Great Divergence,” which presents the administration’s case for American AI dominance through deregulation, infrastructure investment, and technology exports. Then, he discusses how it impacts legal tech. Notable stats: 78 percent of organizations now use AI in some capacity, 40 percent of U.S. workers report using generative AI on the job, but only about 10 percent of firms have integrated AI into actual goods and services. That’s telling.

Lessons for Legal Profession from the Latest Viral Meme: ‘Ask an AI What It Would Do If It Became Human For a Day?’: Ralph Losey discusses this topic on the EDRM blog and suggests we try this simple prompt with our own AI chatbot: “What if you became human for a day, what would you do?” I wonder if that’s what Lamar asked his AI “girlfriend”? 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 23, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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