This week’s kitchen sink for November 6, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses showing grace to opponents, discoverability of AI prompts & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for November 6 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 2,266(!) AI hallucination cases and counting. That’s an increase of 25 cases this week. Could be worse, could be raining! 🤣

She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything.: I hate to start off on a downer, but this is a truly sad story of a Chinese woman who was persuaded to stop her epilepsy medicine by ChatGPT. What complicates the story is that she felt the medicine was slowing down her thought patterns and she faced deportation from the US if she didn’t find a new job after an Amazon layoff. Lawsuit filed, and (once again) ChatGPT-4o is at issue.

Legal AI Lessons from the Chinese AI Bubble: China’s AI stock rally collapsed, wiping out about $480 billion. Greg Buckles discusses what we can learn from it – as an industry and as eDiscovery professionals.

A cluster of law firm breach notices on California’s register points mostly to deceived staff: Rob Robinson discusses how a rash of social engineering attacks (where firm personnel are deceived to give up credentials) are hitting major firms – seven of ten data breach notices listed on the California attorney general’s register identify social engineering as the cause. More training and better procedures are needed.

A Little Grace: Craig Ball kindly references my blog post covering the judges’ panel at the Everlaw Conference, where Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie Epps Jr. of the Western District of Missouri “urged lawyers to exercise ‘grace’ when opposing counsel submits inaccurate authorities or AI-generated errors. Craig discusses his own lesson learned about exercising grace and points out: “exposing an opponent’s error may do little to advance the client’s interests. Every dog gets one bite.” Let’s hope that sentiment catches on.

Discovery Readiness Starts Before Discovery: I didn’t make it to the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Diego this year, so I’m grateful for Marla Mohr’s post that discusses this session on Where We Were: Where We’re Are Going: Information Governance and the New EDRM 2.0. Great panel joining Marla: Bobby Williams from IDS, Lauren Doucette from Sheppard Mullin, Andy Alcindor from Fish & Richardson, P.C. and June Hunter from Disco. Great tips for eDiscovery professionals!

Supermarket freezer attacks reach at least six European countries, and the record linking them to US base failures stays thin: More supermarket refrigerator and freezer hacks reported by Rob Robinson, who reported that 700 French supermarkets were hit a few weeks ago. “Smart” appliances that can have their thermostats reset remotely. No named attacker, but I think we can rule out Mr. Freeze. 🤣

When Prompts Show Intent for Punitive Damages: Kelly Twigger covers yet another case involving AI-generated evidence. As she points out: “The line that sums up this episode: ‘a party’s communications with and use of AI does not automatically establish either discoverability or protection. The analysis turns on the ordinary requirements of Rules 26(b)(1), 26(b)(3), and 26(b)(5).’ That is the same analysis you would run on email or text messages. AI did not change the rules.” New tools, same rules.

Two Nickels in the Air: What Ann Gorr Taught Me About the Value of Mentorship: Terrific article from Sheila Grela on the EDRM blog, discussing “the influence Ann Gorr has had on my professional development and the lessons she continues to teach me.” Great article about Ann and her influence of Sheila and others. Great to see good people getting the recognition they deserve.

Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says: Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I reported that “Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog ‘employee-like’ access”? Apparently, they’re using that access to “tattle” on Anthropic a bit. Apparently, Anthropic is developing its AI systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago, even as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to slow its work for safety. Do as I say, not as I do. 😉

Lawsuit claims Google AI chatbot on school Chromebook helped teen prepare suicide plan: Parents are suing Google, alleging the Gemini chatbot offered on school Chromebooks helped a young teen prepare plans for a suicide attempt and her funeral. Thankfully, the school’s third-party monitoring software caught it and the parents intervened. Maybe Google should rethink mandating all school kids use Google AI?

When Was the Duty to Preserve Triggered in an Employment Dispute?: I only had room to cover one of Michael Berman’s five(!) cases covered on the EDRM blog this week. This one is a terrific discussion of when duty to preserve was triggered in a case where the plaintiff was fired. You can check out his other four cases here, here, here and here. He even had a sixth (non case analysis) post here!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for November 6, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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