Happy Juneteenth
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
There are now two public AI Hallucination Case trackers: Damien Charlotin’s AI Hallucination Cases and Matthew Lee’s AI Hallucination Case Tracker
The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States has approved a new Federal Rule of Evidence 707, covering machine-generated evidence offered with expert witness testimony [Nelson Mullins blog post | National Law Review | Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure’s 6/10/25 meeting minutes]
The TAKE IT DOWN Act was passed and enacted into law; it provides criminal penalties against ‘knowingly’ posting non-consensual intimate imagery, whether real or wholly AI-generated (AKA deepfakes) [Variety | IAPP | KQED]
A solar power company has filed a defamation suit against Google for errors about the company generated as part of its AI overviews feature [Docket | Complaint | Politico]
From LawFare: “Judges Shouldn’t Rely on AI for the Ordinary Meaning of Text”
Amsterdam has abandoned an effort to train and deploy AI systems to detect welfare fraud after finding it “continued to be plagued by biases,” despite applying principles of Responsible AI [Lighthouse Reports | Tech Review]
Blockchain and Digital Currency
The Senate has passed the GENIUS Act, a bill to approve and regulate stablecoins in the U.S., the first major crypto bill to pass the Senate [CoinDesk | CNBC | | Congress.gov]
Miscellaneous
Puerto Rico has adopted the rule of technology competence for attorneys
Long Reads
Kosmyna, Nataliya, Eugene Hauptmann, Ye Tong Yuan, Jessica Situ, Xian-Hao Liao, Ashly Vivian Beresnitzky, Iris Braunstein, and Pattie Maes. "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task." arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08872 (2025)
Khan, Lina M., Levine, Samuel A., & Nguyen, Stephanie T., After Notice and Choice: Reinvigorating “Unfairness” to Rein In Data Abuses, 77 Stan. L. Rev. 1375 (2025).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4646Weinberg, Michael, “Are AI Bots Knocking Heritage Collections Offline?” GLAM-E Lab, https://www.glamelab.org/products/are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/ [404 Media summary ($)]
Hutson, Jevan and Whitney, Cedric and Conrad, Jay, Forget Me Not? Machine Unlearning's Implications for Privacy Law (May 09, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5291500
Meincke, L., Nave, G. & Terwiesch, C. ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02173-x