This week’s kitchen sink for June 12, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses the Germans vs. Google, bad facial recognition (again) & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for June 12 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,600 AI hallucination cases and counting. Do cases where both parties submit hallucination filings count as two? Asking for a friend… 🤣

AI is becoming an advisor, and it is rewriting how buyers find you: Rob Robinson discusses how many professionals are increasingly starting with AI chatbots and GenAI assistants to discover and evaluate vendors – before they ever visit a website. His recommendation: Ask the major models the questions your buyers actually ask and repeat it monthly, because the answers drift. Great advice!

Curiosity + AI: Durable Skills, Judgment, and the Future of Legal Work: Sheila Grela discusses the AI skills that legal professionals need on the EDRM blog. Since the title mentions it, I’ll share curiosity as one of those skills per Sheila’s quote that “The legal profession has always rewarded curiosity.” Couldn’t agree more. Want to know the other skills needed? Read her article.

UK Government launches AI Growth Lab with legal as its first focus area: Think legal is down the line for AI importance? Think again. Caroline Hill reports on Legal IT Insider that the UK Government is launching an AI Growth Lab. The first area of focus will be LawTech, legal services and conveyancing services, “facilitating the acceleration of responsible AI adoption in the legal sector and improving access to justice for the public by enabling faster and more affordable services, while maintaining quality.”

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about: Those topics would be cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry. I think we can all guess why. 😉

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google: “Zee Germans” have ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. Oh, and nobody needs AI to search the Internet. Other than that, it’s perfectly fine. 😉 Will American courts follow “suit”? (see what I did there?) 🤣

Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition: More AI lawsuits, and more lawsuits over faulty facial recognition. As the complaint notes, the plaintiff was arrested after a facial recognition system flagged him as a 93 percent match to a suspect filmed by a Jacksonville Beach McDonald’s surveillance camera attempting to lure a child. Problem: there was no evidence that he was within 300 miles of Jacksonville Beach. How hard is it to confirm the guy is actually there? 🤔

Chatbot Turns $100 Thrift- Store Find Into $254K Windfall: AI does good things too. Like in this case, where a woman bought a painting at a thrift store 60 years ago for $100 and her son took a picture of it, uploaded it to Google’s Gemini, and asked what it was looking at. The answer: a 1920s studio portrait by Scottish Colorist FCB Cadell, which they sold for $254K. Who’s got two thumbs and plans to upload pics of every painting in his house to AI? This guy. 😉

9 out of 10 people can no longer distinguish real from AI-generated content: And the tenth person is a pathological liar. 🤣 Seriously though, half of 1,500 respondents to a survey said they had encountered an AI-driven scam during the past year. Personalized scam messages, manipulated product reviews, AI-generated images, and voice impersonation were among the experiences reported.

Report: OpenAI Is Preparing to Slash Prices: Let the commoditization of AI begin! The Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter,” reports the company is weighing steep cuts to the prices it charges per “token,” the basic unit that underpins AI billing, in anticipation that rival Anthropic will do the same. Will those savings make it through to eDiscovery platforms? We’ll see.

Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production: Prompt injection isn’t just for Brazilian lawyers to try and fool the court – it’s also the “universal joint” connecting many AI security incidents. As the article notes, referencing Simon Willison’s “lethal trifecta”, any AI agent with access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally can potentially be transformed into a data-exfiltration tool through prompt injection. Meta’s “Agents Rule of Two,” which recommends that autonomous agents possess no more than two of those three capabilities without human approval. I’m for that.

The ourouboros apocalypse arrives. AI: what hath thou wrought!!??: Eric De Grasse of Project Counsel Media uses the ancient symbol of the Ouroboros – a snake consuming its own tail – as a metaphor for emerging challenges in AI. For example, Shopify has published numerous “best ecommerce platform” rankings in which Shopify itself appears as the top choice. So, of course, ChatGPT recommended Shopify as the best way to create an online storefront, citing Shopify’s own rankings! 🤣 Eric also discusses the German court ruling against Google (covered above) and Meta’s dispute with NSO Group (maker of Pegasus spyware) over claims of targeting WhatsApp users with phishing attacks (despite being subject to a permanent injunction prohibiting similar conduct). Yeesh.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 12, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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