Lawyer Ex Machina #10: the NY Times Pitchbot edition
There doesn't seem to be a lot of good news coming out of El Salvador regarding its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, but one fintech firm seems to be having wider acceptance with digital banking in the country based on fiat currency.
Whether or not you call it a recession, the current economic landscape is changing which products and services are still desirable for certain fintech customers.
From Law.com: "Social Media Platforms Hit With Surge In Mental Health Lawsuits" [$] (Addendum: Eric Goldman breaks down a recent finding in one of the cases.)
Adam Smith, Esq., has a interesting but perhaps bleak new column on rising overhead (including IT costs) colliding with simmering retention issues for big law firms.
From Bloomberg Law: the California State Bar and LegalMatch.com have settled a lawsuit over whether the latter violated state law as an unlicensed lawyer referral service. [$]
A blockchain investment group has written a report on 25 NFT projects and their terms of service regarding ownership and licensing, finding that "'the vast majority of NFTs convey zero intellectual property ownership of their underlying content,' and many of their operators (including Yuga Labs) 'appear to have misled NFT purchasers' about the extent of their rights."
Is part of the reason why the U.S. still doesn't have a robust data privacy law due to Americans' traditional understanding of privacy as "the right to decide who enters their space?"
Deepfake technology + employment scams to access company data = another headache for HR & legal. One bit of good news: real-time generated deepfakes can be unmasked by asking the interviewee to turn their head sideways ...
Not in the least legal
For something a little less unsettling using AI-generated visuals, a writer who doesn't draw created a folk-horror comic with the art generated by the AI program MidJourney.