Lawyer Ex Machina #58: falling back, yet again
AI
President Biden has issued an executive order on "use and trustworthy development" of AI [IAPP | NY Times ($) | Ernst & Young | | Politico]
The International Association of Privacy Professionals has a global AI legislation tracking report
The one of the lawsuits by artists against the developers of AI image generator Stable Diffusion has been greatly reduced, with the judge allowing "only a single direct infringement claim to proceed" and dismissing the rest [Docket]
From The BBC: The Employees Secretly Using AI at Work
Scarlett Johansson is suing an AI app developer for using her likeness and voice in an ad for its product that used movie footage and an AI clone of her voice [all of the Her jokes go here]
A Georgetown Law professor and former CIA official testified at a House subcommittee hearing that 'sentient AI' should be granted intellectual property protections over their creations [Hearing page | Law360 ($)]
3 Geeks and a Law Blog has a video up with Damien Riehl of vLex, demonstrating the new GenAI functions of its existing 'AI legal assistant,' Vincent
For my law librarian colleagues - there is a series of regional roundtables on "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries" that started last month and will continue into next year (the Midwest Roundtable is 11/3 at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)
Meta's new AI chatbots based on celebrities have hit a couple of rough spots:
The Tom Brady bot trash-talked Colin Kaepernick
AI Jane Austen overrun with spam
Data Privacy
Two data privacy laws went into effect in Montana last month, including a genetic information privacy law that 23andMe, Ancestry.com and others are lobbying to revise [Bloomberg Law ($)]
In late September, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board published a report on surveillance conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), finding that the program"poses significant privacy and civil liberties risks, most notably from U.S. person queries and batch queries"
From Legal Dive: "the former head of cybersecurity for software company SolarWinds was criminally charged along with the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in what the agency calls deliberate misinformation about the company’s security vulnerabilities"