This week’s kitchen sink for March 20, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses a facial recognition based arrest, AI-powered erotica, an MS “pile of shit” & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for March 20 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,093 AI hallucination cases and counting. This case represents perhaps not the best way to respond when you’re accused of AI hallucinations.

Grandmother Claims She Was Wrongfully Jailed for Crime in Another State Due to Facial Recognition Software Error: She was arrested in a bank fraud case in North Dakota. Problem? She claimed she’s never even been to North Dakota. She spent nearly six months in jail and wasn’t even able to retain a lawyer until she was extradited to North Dakota four months in. That attorney obtained bank records proving she was in Tennessee at the time of the crimes. Facial recognition should never be the sole reason for arresting a suspect – period.

Grammarly Withdraws Editing Feature That Impersonated Authors: It has withdrawn a feature that offered suggestions for revising documents that supposedly used the personas of well-known writers, such as Stephen King and scientist Carl Sagan, without their consent, as authors criticized the tool and filed a class-action lawsuit. Oh, the horror! 😉 Did they sue for “billions and billions”? 🤣

OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch: Back in January, council members unanimously warned OpenAI that “AI-powered erotica could foster unhealthy emotional dependence on ChatGPT for users and that minors could find ways to access sex chats”. Still, the company plans to move ahead with “adult mode,” despite their urgent warnings. So, why are they doing it? Money, of course. 🤑

Teens Sue Elon Musk’s xAI Over Alleged AI-Made CSAM: Three plaintiffs allege xAI’s Grok chatbot was used to digitally strip clothing from images of more than 18 girls, many from the same school, creating nude and sexualized images that were then traded on Discord and Telegram. The complaint accuses xAI and Musk of effectively enabling child pornography by rolling out editing features—via Grok’s “Spicy” mode and related tools—that could “undress” real people and were promoted as a way to boost usage. OpenAI, are you reading this?

Analysis: Musk’s New Grok Move Is a ‘Sign of Desperation’: Grok no longer answers questions posed by free users inside X posts. That presumably means less people can use it to create AI-made CSAM, so maybe that’s a good thing.

What People Want to Know About AI: Top 10 Curiosity Index: Ralph Losey found out that the pro version of Gemini can synthesize thousands of disparate data points, from workshop reports to tangential polls, to provide a coherent answer to a complex “meta” question. So, he asked it “What do people actually want to know about AI?” Here are the results on the EDRM blog.

Defensible by Design: What Legal Teams Must Get Right About AI Privilege Workflows: Rob Robinson provides a thorough recap of an informative session from Legalweek moderated by Esther Birnbaum of HaystackID, with panelists Sam Sessler of Norton Rose Fulbright, Liz Gary of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and Nirav Shah of The Home Depot. Interesting stuff.

Example of a Proper Use of GenAI: On the EDRM blog, Michael Berman discusses a use of what Judge Paul Grimm and Dr. Grossman call “acknowledged” AI – evidence that is known to be created using AI (as opposed to a deepfake, which is “unacknowledged” AI). In this case, AI was used to create an illustrative diagram to illustrate the distance that a homeless man fell when an officer tased him, leading to severe injuries and significant damages awarded by the jury to the homeless man.

Federal cyber experts called Microsoft’s cloud a “pile of shit,” approved it anyway: The tech giant’s products had been at the heart of two major cybersecurity attacks against the US in three years. Yet, “in a highly unusual move that still reverberates across Washington”, FedRAMP authorized the product anyway. Of course, even FedRAMP acknowledges it is operating “with an absolute minimum of support staff” and “limited customer service.” The end result? 💩

A.I. Agents: They’re Fun. They’re Useful. But Don’t Give Them the Credit Card.: Duh! One guy found that out when an AI bot he had asked to arrange a speech at the World Economic Forum and set up meetings. But it also agreed to pay 24,000 Swiss francs — or about $31,000 — for a corporate sponsorship against his original instructions. Oops.

‘Citations to cases that don’t exist’: Appeal of murder conviction thrown into turmoil as Georgia Supreme Court flags numerous ‘nonexistent’ quotes: This happens in criminal cases too, just sayin’. In this case, with a Georgia county DA’s office. An attorney for the defendant apologized for not catching the multiple apparent errors in the orders – her appeal cited ineffective assistance of counsel. Sigh.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 20, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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