Lawyer Ex Machina #46 - Summer ed. - July 2023
AI - Lawsuits P.M. v. OpenAI LP (3:23-cv-03199) [Docket] Focus of lawsuit: personal data/data privacy Stories: Legal Dive | Search Engine Journal J. L. et al...
Lawyer Ex Machina #45 - Summer ed. - June 2023
AI "European Parliament lawmakers on Wednesday passed the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, putting the bloc a critical step closer to formally adopting...
Lawyer Ex Machina #44: Summer ed. - May 2023
(Editor's note: the publishing schedule for LexM will change from now until mid-August; this is the last newsletter for May 2023, and there will be only one...
Lawyer Ex Machina #43: Congratulations, Class of 2023
AI Bloomberg Law has unveiled Contract Solutions, a new AI-enabled contract workflow for legal departments.Last week, the White House announced new actions...
Lawyer Ex Machina #42: May the 4th Be With You
AI Lexis has just announced it will be releasing generative AI tools to be part of Lexis+, with conversational search, summarizationa and drafting...
Lawyer Ex Machina #41: going into finals
AI Music and AI Did you miss the viral 'heart on my sleeve' track produced with AI-generated soundalikes of Drake & The Weeknd before it was removed from...
Lawyer Ex Machina #40
AI A legal insurer has drafted a letter on the use of ChatGPT by law firms, calling it “Not Ready for Prime Time.” [LegalTech News ($)] A group of 12 members...
Lawyer Ex Machina #39: Defamed by an AI chatbot
AI Are defamatory statements made by a product powered by large language models actionable in a court of law, and against who? This Australian mayor may be...
Lawyer Ex Machina #38
AI From MIT Technology Review ($): how advances in AI are likely to change legal work. Related: Goldman Sachs report on GenAI's potential effects on economic...
Lawyer Ex Machina #37: pausing AI?
AI A "Viewpoint" article from JAMA Networks on AI-generated medical advice considers some of the legal and regulatory protections (and lack thereof) for...
Lawyer Ex Machina #36:
AI LexisNexis has released a survey on the attitudes of lawyers and law students towards GenAI [Summary here]Lexis subsidiary Lex Machina also has a survey...
Lawyer Ex Machina #35: Happy Stochastic Parrots Day
AI The Copyright Office has issued new guidance on "works containing material generated by artificial intelligence."Bloomberg Tax [($)]:...
Lawyer Ex Machina #34: allergy season
AI Some responses to the Copyright Office's revocation of copyright in portions of a comic book that included pictures created by an AI image generator: A...
Lawyer Ex Machina #33: the techshow edition
AI From WaPo ($): algorithms have been used to help companies hire and promote employees; they're now likely to be used to decide who gets laid off....
Lawyer Ex Machina #32: Sci-fi mag inundated by ChatGPT subs
AI SSRN has created a hub for papers devoted to AI and GPT-3 topics, including law scholarship.Employees at both Amazon and JP Morgan have been warned...
Lawyer Ex Machina #31: Bing = Sydney
AI Multi-national law firm Allen & Overy announced that it is the first law firm to integrate a generative AI product, called Harvey, into its document...
Lawyer Ex Machina #30: one bad answer from Bard, a $100 million loss for Alphabet
AI A group of researchers from various universities and companies have released a paper showing that generative AI models can memorize a small number of...
Lawywer Ex Machina #29: Groundhog Day
AI How AI-enhanced tools for automated decision-making can undermine anti-discrimination laws and what can regulators and entities using such tools can do to...
Lawyer Ex Machina #28: DoNotPassGo
AI Will the war in Ukraine accelerate the development of fully autonomous drones for warfare, able to "identify, select and attack targets without help from...
Lawyer Ex Machina #27: the AI generation
[Editor's note; This week's newletter is longer than usual because so much appears so timely, especially ChatGPT ...] ChatGPT First - did ChatGPT really take...
