Artificial Intelligence
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DISCO Takes Cecilia AI Platform to EU and UK
Europe has proven more cautious about AI, but legal tech providers are meeting the regulatory challenge.
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Latest GPT ‘Fake Case’ Kerfuffle Brings New, More Exciting Ways For AI To Mess Up
It’s a mistake… but not the worst.
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Generative AI Embraces ‘It Depends’ — Aw, It Thinks It’s (Lawyer) People!
Maybe it’s a stretch to consider lawyers as people, but you get the drift.
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Facial Recognition Still Struggles To Recognize Faces As More People Are Misidentified As Criminals
From the everything-is-fine-say-tech-purveyors-surrounded-by-flames dept
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Artificial Intelligence Lets Us All Be Flies On The Wall For Brown v. Board Of Education
Outlines can be that much more immersive!
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Enough About The Future Of AI… What Can Legal Do (Responsibly) With It Right NOW?
Someday these tools may work magic, but most people aren’t even using the existing products to their full potential.
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The Worst AI Nightmares Have Nothing To Do With Hallucinations
The next few years will be a wild ride for generative AI.
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The Race To Keep Law Firms From Completely Screwing Up Generative AI With Disastrous Results
Behind the scenes, firm tech staff are working to keep the security threats you’re all about to cause to a minimum.
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Lexis+ AI Announces New Generation As The AI Arms Race Continues
You get an AI legal assistant! And you get an AI legal assistant!
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This bill would be a danger to the internet.
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From the that’s-not-how-any-of-this-works dept
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Westlaw AI Launch Forces Confrontation With The Inner Workings Of A Lawyer’s Mind
AI is learning to think like a lawyer.
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This sure sounds like another lawyer caught using ChatGPT to make up caselaw.
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Helping Lawyers Wear The ‘Business Owner Hat’ With Artificial Intelligence
Lawyers do more than lawyering and no one needs to have an ethical freakout over these uses.
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* George RR Martin among the authors suing OpenAI for allowing the algorithm to train on their work. Did the AI learn to sit on an anticipated project for over a decade? Because otherwise it’s not clear what it’s learning from Martin. [Reuters]
* Former DHS Secretary turned security consultant Michael Chernoff warns that AI needs proactive guardrails. Great point… now go back to collecting millions of dollars from the Supreme Court to tell them they did a great job investigating the Dobbs leak without bothering to interview the most likely suspects. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Attorney attempted to attend two CLEs at once. Most would call this blatantly unethical, but it’s also impressive multitasking. [ABA Journal]
* The Feds closed up the investigation into Los Angeles water and power billing violations — involving allegations of attorney misconduct — without charging anyone. [LA Times]
* SEC issues new rules to bar funds from touting ESG work when they aren’t really investing in ESG work. A sound policy that won’t matter when Republicans ban private enterprise from spending money on causes they don’t like. [Law360]
* DISCO hit with a securities class action over financial disclosures. [Legaltech News]
* Which seems to be the least of the problems over there. [Daily Mail]
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* Keep track of who’s who in the latest indictment. [Politico]
* Meanwhile, Abbe Lowell and Winston & Strawn have stepped up their collective role in the Hunter Biden case, arguing that the original plea agreement included binding government promises that didn’t evaporate just because the judge rejected the deal. [Law360]
* CFPB going after data brokers selling people’s personal data. Yet again, the government agency making the most direct, tangible impact for people is the one that still worries that every election might be its last. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Justice Department urges Supreme Court to deal with unconstitutional social media laws out of Texas and Florida. [Reuters]
* Has “flexibility” lost all meaning when it comes to law firm office scheduling? No. Just because some law firms try to engage in flexibility newspeak, doesn’t actually change its meaning. [American Lawyer]
* AI may not be ready to replace lawyers, but the California Innocence Project is leveraging the tool to assist in pursuit of justice. [ABA Journal]
* London Kirkland team headed to Paul Weiss resigned on a Sunday in a power move. [LegalCheek]