This week’s kitchen sink for June 19, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses AI ripping off Bob, “troubling” vs. “regrettable” & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for June 19 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,624 AI hallucination cases and counting. Does a case with an AI-generated transcript mistake count as a hallucination case?

This Week Saw A Slew Of New Legal Tech CEOs. But Why?: Bob Ambrogi discusses the “unusual concentration of leadership changes at legal tech companies” that he hasn’t seen before “[i]n all my years of covering legal tech”. And that’s a lot of years! Equally notable is Bob’s LinkedIn post pointing out that a “pseudo publication called the London Insider” has done a direct rip-off of the article (and other articles as well). Hopefully, I’ll be good enough someday to have an AI-generated site rip off my work too. 😉

Maine disables data breach notification portal after fake disclosures: Maine’s public data breach reporting portal is one of the best sources for keeping up with data breaches in the US. So, naturally, it became a target for fraudulent breach disclosures. Sigh.

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year: And that’s just in the first three months. Protests actually work! This from Data Center Watch, a project from AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks data center fights around the US. Who knew? 😲

What’s scaring people about AI? We ran a study to find out.: Stephen’s Lighthouse provides the key takeaways from the study. If you want to know the answer, check out the post.

Europe’s AI labeling rules arrive with a voluntary code and a hard deadline: Rob Robinson discusses the European Commission’s final Code of Practice on the Marking and Labeling of AI-Generated Content, released on June 10, which translates the EU AI Act’s Article 50 transparency requirements (which become enforceable on August 2) into operational guidance.

I’ve reviewed every PDF editor out there – then I had ChatGPT build me a better one: Oh yeah? Can it completely obscure redactions? 😉 Seriously, though, this guy tried to remove yellow background from his wife’s sheet music – ChatGPT did it, but “subtly altered the resulting PDFs”. It happens. But when he used ChatGPT to write a Python program to do it, it worked. Nice.

Why Quantum Law, and Why Now? Privacy, Proof, and Judgment in the Next Technology Shift to Quantum: Ralph Losey argues on the EDRM blog that quantum computing is no longer a distant scientific concept but an emerging legal issue that lawyers, courts, and legal professionals must begin preparing for today. He helps us do that by discussing the legal implications of quantum computing, including its impact on confidentiality, evidence, cybersecurity, and judicial decision-making. 😊

iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info: One nice thing about being Interim Editor of PinHawk’s daily Law Technology Digest is that it forces me to find articles daily to recap – just like I’ve been doing Friday here! I’ll try not to be overly redundant, but I couldn’t resist sharing this one as it’s likely to increase heart rates among their users. 🤣

Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secrets Claim Against OpenAI: That means it’s Altman-2, Musk 0 – if you’re scoring at home.

Trial Court’s Order Contained Hallucinated Mistake: Judges do it too, as Michael Berman points out on the EDRM blog. In this case, the trial court’s order was drafted by the plaintiffs’ attorney and contained several mistakes. The Court of Appeals of Georgia called counsel’s submission of the order “troubling” but called the trial court’s failure to identify any of the errors “regrettable”. Hmmm. I think they’re both troubling.

One of the world’s foremost experts on deepfakes is essentially giving up because of AI: This week’s sign of the apocalypse? Jeffrey Kemp of Project Counsel Media covers a New York Times article which discusses that Hany Farid, the world’s leading deepfake expert, no longer trusts his own eyes in the age of AI and he is getting out the deepfake detection biz. This is a guy who invented software to identify deepfakes. But the AI technology to create fake videos and images is improving much, much too quickly to keep up, he says. As one of his forensic buddies who has worked with lawyers noted: “By 2027, deepfake technology will have transitioned from a tool used to generate standalone, pre-rendered clips into something completely autonomous, with real-time synthetic personas.” Be afraid, be very afraid! 😟

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 19, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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