Lawyer Ex Machina #48: TMI, AI
AI
Attendees of hacker conference DefCon 'red-teamed' generative AI systems to expose vulnerabilities, encouraged by government officials and major tech companies.
Surveys, surveys, surveys on GenAI and legal practice:
Lexis - International Legal Generative AI Survey
Thomson Reuters (Westlaw) - Future of Professionals Report
Everlaw - Ediscovery Innovation Report
A federal judge has reiterated that works created wholly by AI cannot be protected by copyright.
A new report by the National Conference of State Legislatures found that 25 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have introduced legislation this year to study or regulate use of artificial intelligence. [Fortune article | Press release | Report]
How is GenAI likely to affect non-attorney work in law offices? [Law.com ($)]
From Wired[$]: This was DEFINITELY a Black Mirror episode, but the show was less focused on issues around costs, migration of data, IP concerns, etc. of using AI to "resurrect the dead"
From Curran, Lansley, Bethell, "Hallucination is the last thing you need," (June 23, 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11520
To summarise, our paper highlights that hallucination of data in legal language is a nuanced problem and should not be dismissed as an over-arching fictitious case law issue. Our experiments reveal that neither consumer nor enterprise-level use of ChatGPT delivers the precise controls necessary for mitigating exposure effectively. Even the most careful and astute lawyers may fall prey to some of these hallucinatory outcomes, underlining the need for the legal industry to consider the acquisition and application of sufficient safeguards.
Data Privacy
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning a rulemaking to regulate data broker practices.
A look back on a couple of articles about WorldCoin and its activities linking biometric collection and cryptocurrency: Buzzfeed | MIT Tech Review [$]
Related: Germany's financial regulator is now investigating WorldCoin