Digital replicas
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills regarding the creation and use of digital replicas of living and deceased performers without consent, as well as several bills addressing the use of deepfake content for election/campaign material; however, he said that he worried about a chilling effect on AI development in California if the AI safety bill AB-1047 is enacted
The Brennan Center has an rtificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker just for all of the bills introduced during the 118th Congress (120, according to MIT Technology Review ($))
At an Australian legislative hearing, Meta confirmed that posts by Australian adults that were not set private have been used to train its AI models, with no opt-out option
The Irish Data Protection Commission has opened a probe into Google and its AI models to investigate if the collection of Europeans’ data and how they’re used train AI models violate the EU’s GDPR
From Thomson Reuters: “Pricing AI-driven legal services: The billable hour is dead, long live the billable hour”
A court case in Massachusetts alleges that a man accused of stalking a woman for a number of years generated numerous deepfake nude and semi-nude images of her and created multiple AI chatbots using the woman’s name, image and personal information to dox and harass her
The United Nations AI Advisory Body has released a final report of recommendations focusing on international AI governance [UN AI Advisory webpage | Reuters article | Press release]
Blockchain/digital currency
The developers of Eve Online, a MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game) set in deep space, announced a spin-off game that will be based on a blockchain