Happy Graduation, UCLA Law Class of '24!
[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 of the future could be subpoenaed to testify against us in court pic.twitter.com/CTCXvxLR6S
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) May 6, 2024
More GenAI-related lawsuits:
Makkai et al v. Databricks, Inc. et al, 4:24-cv-02653 (N.D. Cal. May 02, 2024) [Docket]
Dubus v. NVIDIA Corporation, 3:24-cv-02655 (N.D. Cal, May 08, 2024) [Docket]
From TechCrunch: “Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI tech”
Two takes on AI Hallucinations
Tom Martin of LawDroid on defining, understanding, and fixing hallucinations
From TechCrunch: “Why RAG won’t solve generative AI’s hallucination problem”
The State of Ohio is using AI to highlight and eliminate redundant and outdated language in the administrative code
Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) & Thom Tillis (R-NC) have introduced the “‘Secure A.I. Act of 2024,” focused on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity [FedScoop | Data Guidance | Congress.gov | Bill text]
Blockchain/Digital Currency
Bankruptcy attorneys for cryptocurrency exchange FTX have filed a re-organization plan that includes repayment of the value of assets to most customers, including interest, as of the time of the bankruptcy filing
Late last month, Consensys, a blockchain software company that is a major backer of the Ethereum blockchain, filed suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), arguing that the agency has wrongly declared Ether to be a security [CoinTelegraph | Docket]
Data Privacy
A firm that provides ID verification services (including facial recognition) for bars and clubs in Australia and the US has allegedly been hacked, with the records of over a million people supposedly at risk [Wired ($) | Tech Times | Biometric Update]
Long Reads
Chase, Ashley Krenelka and Harden, Sam, Through the AI-Looking Glass and What Consumers Find There (February 11, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4722695 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4722695
Garrett, Brandon L. and Rudin, Cynthia, The Right to a Glass Box: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice (February 16, 2023). Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-03, https://www.cornelllawreview.org/2024/04/23/the-right-to-a-glass-box-rethinking-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-criminal-justice/ or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4275661