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August 15, 2024

A small newsletter on technology, law practice and legal education

Summer Break 2024

May 16, 2024

[Editor’s note: This summer, I will be traveling to conferences and I have a couple of projects moving off the back burner, so the newsletter is going on...

Happy Graduation, UCLA Law Class of '24!

May 8, 2024

[Editor’s note: I’m traveling during the usual time I release the newsletter, so it is early this week] AI Sam Altman asks if our personalized AI companions...

Intro to neurorights

May 2, 2024

AI I’m not sure the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop covered this exact scenario: the estate of the late Tupac Shakur sent a letter to Drake threatening legal reprisals...

GenAI's effect on children

April 25, 2024

AI The challenges of education in a GenAI worldA report from Stanford’s Internet Observatory predicts that the current systems for reporting and...

AI all the way down

April 18, 2024

AI Microsoft Research has unveiled VASA-1, an AI tool that can transform single images and speech into videos of people talking (or singing) in real-...

Post-eclipse

April 11, 2024

AI Generative AI developers are allegedly scrambling for more content to train current and future models: "How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for...

100 Chief AI Officers

April 4, 2024

AI From Legal Dive: "General counsel working with law firms or legal tech companies implementing OpenAI’s generative AI tools on Microsoft’s Azure cloud face...

Spring Breaking

March 28, 2024

AI There is a public tracker for judicial orders & court rules regarding the use of AI in courtsTennessee has passed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image...

Certified non-infringing

March 21, 2024

AI Fairly Trained, a non-profit certification and auditing organization for AI models, has announced its first certification for Kelvin Legal Large Language...

Pi(e) Day 2024

March 14, 2024

AI Is New York City's AI Bias Law a failure? [Law 360 ($) | SHRM]The European Parliament has officially passed the AI Act, which is set to go into effect in...

AI Prognostication

March 7, 2024

AI Two bipartisan bills have been introduced in Congress: House Bill 7532, co-sponsored by James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), would "codif[y]...

Happy Leap Day 2024

February 29, 2024

Ad for AI mental health therapist found on the campus of UCLA AI A Canadian attorney in British Columbia has been reprimanded for submitting fictitious case...

The Day ChatGPT lost its mind

February 22, 2024

AI Ars Technica has linked to some great examples of ChatGPT spouting word salad earlier this week (ed. note: My fave is how it starts going off the rails...

The Techshow 2024 issue

February 15, 2024

Tweet from SF Fire Department with pictures of a Waymo driveless vehicle set afire by a crowd in Chinatown AI Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, handling two...

More GenAI guidelines

February 8, 2024

AI More guidelines for legal use of GenAI: New Jersey Courts: Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of AI by New Jersey Lawyers (H/T to Rebecca Fordon)American...

'Taylor Swift is driving AI regulation' is a brand new sentence

February 1, 2024

AI A bill has been introduced in the California Senate that would charge the Judicial Counsel with developing and implementing methods of detection of...

Legaltech conference season starts

January 25, 2024

AI The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into investments of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in Anthropic and OpenAI, maker of AI chatbots...

Welcome 2024!

January 18, 2024

AI The Federal Judicial Center has published the following guide: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal JudgesThe Preventing Deepfakes of...

Lawyer Ex Machina: Goodbye, 2023

December 14, 2023

[Editor's note: This is my last newsletter of the year. Happy holidays and I hope to have more news for you in January 2024] AI The EU has reached an...

Lawyer Ex Machina: Winding down 2023

December 7, 2023

AI After negotiating for 22 hours, negotiators for the European Union and its member states are pausing talks on final passage of the AI Act until Friday...

Lawyer Ex Machina: Exam Time

November 30, 2023

AI The 7th and presumably last Senate AI Forum of the year focused on issues of AI transparency, as well as its potential effects on new media, music, and...

Lawyer Ex Machina #61: The early Thanksgiving ed.

November 22, 2023

Everyone needs to watch this video in its entirety, and then send it to your friends and family immediately pic.twitter.com/WkBpXBcBJe— chris evans...

Lawyer Ex Machina #60

November 16, 2023

AI Lexis is expanding generative AI features into Courtlink, with summaries of complaints filed in U.S. district courts, and a Microsoft Word integration for...

Lawyer Ex Machina #59

November 9, 2023

AI Thomson Reuters has announced it will be adding generative AI features to Westlaw Precision on November 15thFrom the Wall Street Journal [$]: "When AI...

Lawyer Ex Machina #58: falling back, yet again

November 2, 2023

AI President Biden has issued an executive order on "use and trustworthy development" of AI [IAPP | NY Times ($) | Ernst & Young | | Politico]The...

Lawyer Ex Machina #57: Happy Halloween

October 26, 2023

AI New York City has unveiled a multi-initiative action plan to regulate AI, as well as a proposal to create an Office of Algorithmic Data Integrity [Wired...

Lawyer Ex Machina #56: Not a Deepfake

October 19, 2023

AI A Southern California law firm that specializes in residential and commercial evictions has been sanctioned for including fictitious legal citations in a...

Lawyer Ex Machina #55

October 12, 2023

AI From Wired [$]: "AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues"The Senate Judiciary Committee has drafted legislation to make the creation and...

Lawyer Ex Machina #54: Not so infinite

October 5, 2023

AI How lawyers are using AI and how those uses intersect with legal ethicsLegal writer Adam David Long has a wiki page tracking judicial reactions to use of...

Lawyer Ex Machina #53: routing around crypto

September 28, 2023

AI A bit lost about how many lawsuits there are against OpenAI? There's now a page tracking the 10 open suits against OpenAI, including the 2 GitHub suits;...

Lawyer Ex Machina #52: The End of Privacy?

September 21, 2023

AI A UK appellate judge announced that he used ChatGPT to write a portion of a legal summary used in a judgment, calling the chatbot "jolly useful." [The...

Lawyer Ex Machina #51: AI regulation week

September 14, 2023

Data for Progress survey on AI regulation AI Congressional actions Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources- "Recent Advances in Artificial...

Lawyer Ex Machina #50: Not getting a Nissan now

September 7, 2023

New pop-up upon logging into Lexis+ AI Another class action lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of violating a number of...

Lawyer Ex Machina #49: Back to school

August 31, 2023

AI The American Bar Association has launched an AI Task Force. Bloomberg Law has compiled a report of recent articles on the use of AI for corporate counsel:...