Lawyer Ex Machina #43: Congratulations, Class of 2023
AI
Bloomberg Law has unveiled Contract Solutions, a new AI-enabled contract workflow for legal departments.
Last week, the White House announced new actions "to Promote Responsible AI Innovation that Protects Americans’ Rights and Safety," including NSF funding for new National AI Research Institutes, public assessments of current GenAI products, and draft policy guidance by the OMB on use of GenAI by federal agencies.
My colleague Rebecca Fordon @ Ohio State U has put together a meta-thread of law professors who are testing out ChatGPT using their exams.
An opinion piece from Politico: We Need a Manhattan Project for AI Safety, by Samuel Hammond.
The Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law is holding a hearing on Tuesday, May 16th, at 10:00 a.m. EDT on "Oversight of AI: Rules for Artificial Intelligence." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be testifying.
It is getting easier and cheaper to create deepfake video.
The European Union has added a provision to the AI Act that would mandate companies developing generative AI products to disclose copyrighted materials in the data used to train the models.
A couple of pieces on the effect on the legal industry if Goldman Sachs' prediction of up to 44% of legal work being replaced by AI comes true:
What if we started using ChatGPT and other AI products to create informational videos in the justice system? Here is an example that I created over the weekend. ChatGPT summarized an article that I wrote about using text & email reminders, which I then used to create an AI video pic.twitter.com/v2B5IlietC
— Judge Scott Schlegel (@Judgeschlegel) May 8, 2023
Blockchain
Another month, another crypto exchange (this time, Bittrex) files for bankruptcy.
Data Privacy
From The Verge: "Mental health apps are still failing their privacy check-ups"
Longish Reads
Hargreaves, Stuart, ‘Words Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into a Paper Cup’: ChatGPT & Law School Assessments (January 2023). The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-03, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4359407 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4359407
Blair-Stanek, Andrew and Carstens, Anne-Marie and Goldberg, Daniel S. and Graber, Mark and Gray, David C. and Stearns, Maxwell L., GPT-4’s Law School Grades: Con Law C, Crim C-, Law & Econ C, Partnership Tax B, Property B-, Tax B (May 9, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4443471
Day, Terence, A Preliminary Investigation of Fake Peer-Reviewed Citations and References Generated by ChatGPT (Apr 12, 2023). The Professional Geographer, DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2023.2190373