Lawyer Ex Machina #49: Back to school
AI
The American Bar Association has launched an AI Task Force.
Bloomberg Law has compiled a report of recent articles on the use of AI for corporate counsel: The Power of the Prompt (editor's note: this appears to be outside of the BL paywall for now)
Some law firms continue to ban use of ChatGPT by their attorneys
Corporate adoption of GenAI is being hindered by ‘regulatory uncertainty’
From the Washington Post [$]: Part of the secret sauce of GenAI includes thousands of workers providing annotation and feedback, many of them workers in "digital sweatshops" in parts of Asia and Africa, with low pay and little labor protection [MSN version]
The U.S. Copyright Office is seeking public comment on copyright policy issues, including the following:
(1) the use of copyrighted works to train AI models; (2) the copyrightability of material generated using AI systems; (3) potential liability for infringing works generated using AI systems; and (4) the treatment of generative AI outputs that imitate the identity or style of human artists.
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From Law360 [$] on how GenAI is likely to change how new lawyers "pay their dues"
Customs and Border Protection has spent millions of dollars on software that "uses artificial intelligence to detect 'sentiment and emotion' in online posts.
Related: CBP also uses AI-enhanced monitoring software to screen travelers, "which can in some cases link their social media posts to their Social Security number and location data"
Blockchain
The Treasury Department has released proposed regulations on the sale and exchange of digital assets by brokers
The backlash and skepticism towards WorldCoin continues to grow
Data Privacy
The European Union’s Digital Services Act went into effect last week, which enacts additional requirements for very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines, including Google, Facebook/Meta, Wikipedia and more
Related: Google has added transparency about ads on its platforms in response to the DSA
The MarkUp has some practical advice on how to legally scrape EU data from the web
X (formerly Twitter) has released an updated privacy policy that will allow it to collect biometric data and government IDs from premium users. [CBS News | Bloomberg TV (YouTube)]
Miscellaneous
- Song, Anthony and Rogers, Justine, Lawfluencers: Legal Professionalism on Tiktok and Youtube (May 1, 2023). Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 37, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4470377 [Summary]