Happy Leap Day 2024
AI
A Canadian attorney in British Columbia has been reprimanded for submitting fictitious case citations generated by ChatGPT, and is being investigated by the province's Law Society
A campaign consultant for Democratic presidential contender Dean Philips admitted to creating the robocall campaign in New Hampshire that used an AI-generated version of President Biden's voice
OpenAI has claimed that the New York Times used a "hired gun" to hack its GenAI products to get the output that was used as exhibits in the Times' complaint against the developer
"The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft" in separate lawsuits, alleging copyright infringement [Raw Story & AlterNet docket | Intercept docket]
From Bloomberg Law [$]: David Lat - "AI Use in Law Practice Needs Common Sense, Not More Court Rules"
Is GPT-4 getting worse for legal research?
From Semafor: "A Chinese court found that images generated by an artificial intelligence service infringed the copyright of a popular Japanese superhero character, a Chinese newspaper reported, in what appears to be the first ruling of its kind"
A very disappointing "Willy Wonka Immersive Experience" that used images generated by AI in its advertising has prompted calls for regulation
Blockchain/Digital Currency
A federal district judge in Texas has granted a stay against a Department of Energy initiative to collect electricity usage data from crypto-miners
Data Privacy
College students learned from an error message on a vending machine that it was equipped with a facial recognition system and collecting age and gender data without consent
From Wired [$]: How the Pentagon and intelligence agencies learned how to take advantage of AdTech and its rich troves of data generated by online ad systems for surveillance
Events
3/27, 10 am - 3pm PT: The USPTO is holding a live & virtual symposium on AI and IP at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles