AI

• A new survey of federal judges found that 60% of the respondents have used at least one GenAI tool for their judicial work, and 22.4% reported using GenAI on a daily or weekly basis [Northwestern Law summary | LawSites blog post | Study @ Sedona Conference]

• A Dutch court have ordered X/Twitter to take measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from generating non-consensual intimate imagery made with images of women and children [TechPolicy Press]

• A federal judge in an employment discrimination case declined to require disclosure of GenAI use by a pro se litigant beyond the input of confidential information, and argued that the situation is distinguished from U.S. v. Heppner by the party acting as their own attorney receives the same/similar privileges as attorneys in regard to work product [E-Discovery blog post | Docket | Order]

• Related: The City of Baltimore is suing X/Twitter, x.AI and SpaceX over Grok’s production of deepfake images of women and children without consent [NBC | Courthouse News | Complaint]

• A pair of teenage boys in Lancaster County, PA, have been sentenced to probation for creating and distributing deepfake nude and sexualized photos of their classmates [WHYY | ABC7 News | Philadelphia Inquirer]

• A federal judge has stayed the Department of Defense from immediately prohibiting use of Anthropic’s AI products by federal agencies and contractors [BBC | NY Times ($) | MIT Tech Review ($)]

• Some explanations and practical advice on dealing with potential deepfake evidence

Blockchain

• Stablecoin issuer Tether announced that it has hired KMPG to perform a first audit of its USDT coin [CoinDesk | Yahoo! Finance]

• From Reuters [$]: “Money launderers received at least $82 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up sharply from $10 billion in 2020, driven in part by fast ​growth among Chinese-speaking groups, blockchain researchers said on Tuesday”