Lawyer Ex Machina #36:
AI
LexisNexis has released a survey on the attitudes of lawyers and law students towards GenAI [Summary here]
Lexis subsidiary Lex Machina also has a survey out on lawyers' use of and attitudes towards litigation analytics
Lawyer and blogger Carolyn Elefant has put together an FAQ for solo and small firms on using ChatGPT
Similarly, Nicola Shaver of Legaltech Hub has a primer on evaluating large language models (LLMs) for law firms to use safely
Josh Kubiski, director of the Legal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program at University of Richmond School of Law, has started a newsletter on GenAI and how to use it for business and legal purposes
As GPT and LLM-enhanced search engines take off in popularity, there’s a concern about how much personal information may go into the training data for these products
From Fast Company: “… the pros and cons of letting ChatGPT and other chatbots search the web for you”
Is it too early to worry about anti-trust concerns in the sphere of GenAI?
Law.com Radar, a current awareness tool that uses natural language processing to summarize federal docket information into short news items, is expanding its coverage to state courts.
Legal Industry
Earlier this year, Thomson Reuters released both its State of the Legal Market report (in conjunction with Georgetown Law) and the Alternative Legal Services Providers 2023 report
DoNotPay has filed a response to the petition for pre-action discovery entered by Katherine Tewson (see a summary of the drama here); (update - Tewson’s petition has been denied)
Blockchain
From Pew: States Debates Whether to Restrict or Invite Cryptocurrency Mining
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase revealed that the SEC has warned the company of potential securities violation via a Welles notice