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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 confidentiality issues stemming from a contractual loophole that allows Microsoft employees to review some prompts" [Law.com [$] | Legal Dive]
A Washington State court judge has barred the use of video enhanced by AI as evidence in a criminal case
A federal judge opined that AI "could help courts decide cases through an originalist lens by researching how words or phrases were used historically" [Bloomberg Law ($)]
New York City's AI chatbot, which was developed to answer questions and provide guidance to small businesses in the city, has given bad information on labor laws, housing policies and more; NYC will continue to make the chatbot available
The White House has announced an Office of Management and Budget policy to help implement the AI Executive Order from 2023; one of the provisions is for every federal agency to have a Chief AI Officer [Press Release | Ars Technica]
Over 200 musicians (and representatives for the estates of deceased ones) have signed a letter to technologies companies (including digital music services and AI developers) to "cease the use of [AI] to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists"
The estate of George Carlin has settled its lawsuit against the creators of a comedy special that featured an AI-generated soundalike of Carlin
Another attorney was sanctioned in February for including hallucinated cases and cites from ChatGPT in legal briefs in a civil case
From The New York Times [$]: "Now, the [Department of Homeland Security] is becoming the first federal agency to embrace the technology with a plan to incorporate generative A.I. models across a wide range of divisions"
Michigan and West Virginia have published advisory opinions on ethical use of AI by judges [Summary by the National Center of State Courts]
Michael Karanicholas of UCLA Law has a policy brief on institutional trust and use of AI for regulatory enforcement by government agencies.
NCSC has released more interim guidance on the use of GenAI by state courts
Data Privacy
How to check for the privacy practices of smart toys
From Techdirt: "Mozilla Drops New Privacy Partner After CEO Found Tethered To Data Brokers"
Long Reads
Laser, Christa, Legal Issues in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and NFTs (October 3, 2023; last revised: 8 Mar 2024). Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 4, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4591858
Surden, Harry, ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models, and Law (March 31, 2024). Fordham Law Review, Vol. 92, 2024, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4779694
Lipson, Jonathan C. and Skeel, David A., FTX’d: Conflicting Public and Private Interests in Chapter 11 (March 13, 2024). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-08, Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4760736
Martínez, Eric, Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance. Artificial Intelligence Law (March 30, 2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-024-09396-9
U.S. Department of Treasury, Managing Artificial Intelligence-Specific Cybersecurity Risks in the Financial Services Sector (March 2024) [Summary from Inc. Magazine] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Managing-Artificial-Intelligence-Specific-Cybersecurity-Risks-In-The-Financial-Services-Sector.pdf