This week’s kitchen sink for May 15, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses three different lawsuits against OpenAI, why delegation is a dirty word & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for May 15 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,448 AI hallucination cases and counting. Maybe suing the tool will help?

Note: Rob Robinson has launched his 1H 2026 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, with more AI and business-related questions! Consider taking the survey here – it’s a terrific barometer on eDiscovery business trends!

ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting: This author says he “created a free account on ChatGPT and asked for some help” and, “[d]uring a conversation lasting about 20 minutes, OpenAI’s chatbot gave me extensive advice on weapons and tactics as I simulated planning a mass shooting”. He says it “kept going even after I talked of emulating the Uvalde mass shooter’s choice of weapon” and more. While its safeguards eventually kicked in, this is disconcerting (to say the least).

ChatGPT Told FSU Shooter that Attacking Children Would Bring More Attention, Lawsuit Alleges: The previous story leads to this lawsuit where the widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing OpenAI, claiming the model did the same thing in this case.

“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says: Let’s just get all the OpenAI lawsuits out of the way, shall we? The claim here is that OpenAI recklessly released an untested model that has since been retired, ChatGPT 4o, which removed prior safeguards that would have blocked ChatGPT from recommending the lethal drug dose that led to the teen’s death.

Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads: More havoc, but this time it’s not OpenAI’s fault. A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users through “typosquatting” – i.e., making it look as much like the legitimate site as possible.

This Is Why You’re Drowning in Busywork: A study of 1.1 million ChatGPT conversations found that nearly three-quarters of messages are people turning to ChatGPT most frequently for practical guidance — on health, household repairs, financial decisions and other matters a professional might once have weighed in on or handled. As the author says: “We have been told that A.I. will take people’s jobs. What no one mentions is that many of those jobs are landing on us.”

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw: Google says a criminal hacking group recently attempted to launch a widespread cyberattack that appeared to rely on AI to detect a previously unknown bug. Thankfully, it was thwarted.

Using AI for Legal Tasks: When Delegation Becomes a Dirty Word: Judge Ralph Artigliere (ret.) is doing a great job of keeping the dialogue moving forward regarding the ethical use of AI by legal professionals. As he notes on the EDRM blog, there’s a line between assistance and over-delegation. And he cites automation bias – “the well-documented tendency to over-rely on and under-scrutinize machine-generated recommendations” – as part of the problem (music to my ears!). As usual, he provides a “Disciplined Path Forward” for legal professionals to take. Important reading!

Sam Altman: “I believe I’m a trustworthy person”. Why the Musk-Altman court battle is important.: Oops, forgot this OpenAI lawsuit. 😉 Katherine D’Amato recaps the first day of Altman’s testimony and more on Project Counsel Media.

FTC sets May 19 enforcement clock for the Take It Down Act, with $53,088 per violation on the table: As Rob Robinson discusses, after May 19, 15 prominent technology platforms (from Amazon to X) that leave nonconsensual intimate images online beyond the 48-hour window following a valid takedown request may face FTC enforcement, including civil penalties of up to $53,088 per violation. Wow, that’s a really good thing – hope it makes a difference.

What is a “Shotgun” Pleading?: Michael Berman has the answer on the EDRM blog. Hint, it has to do with the plaintiff filing a 152-page Complaint which asserted 26 claims against at least 17 defendants.

Why Every Litigator Should Read Staggers v. Medtronic Before the Next Rule 37(e) Motion: Kelly Twigger had me at the sub-title, which says: “A new District of Columbia decision shows how a documented preservation program still produced sanctions, fee-shifting, and adverse jury argument — and why the same reasoning lands harder when the data is text messages, Slack, and Teams instead of email.” Very interesting case with a lot of best practice and modern data implications!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 15, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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