Lawywer Ex Machina #29: Groundhog Day
AI
How AI-enhanced tools for automated decision-making can undermine anti-discrimination laws and what can regulators and entities using such tools can do to combat potential bias. [ABA Journal ($)]
"A British AI firm said it was rethinking its "safeguards" after its audio tool was used to clone celebrity voices and have them say racist and homophobic slurs."
The news and critiques of DoNotPay continue this week, this time focusing on cancelled subscriptions for the service itself.
--ChatGPT
Summary here.
Also, Tom Martin of LawDroid has announced a new product, LawDroid CoPilot, which uses GPT-3.5 for legal research, summaries, drafting, translation, and more.
And, IronClad, a contracts management company, has integrated GPT3 into a new product that provides instant redlines of contracts, based on a company's playbook of standard language and clauses.
Law.com [$] has an article discussing whether using generative AI can break attorney/client privilege for sensitive information if attorneys use such systems in their legal work under current terms of service.
SCOTUSBlog wrote up its own test of Supreme Court knowledge to give to ChatGPT, which got 21 out of 50 answers correct.
OpenAI has announced a "classifier to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs" (do note the error rate for false positives and false negatives, h/t to Ben Adida) as well as a $20/month ChatGPT Plus subscription that provides priority access to users during peak times and faster response times.
Blockchain
"Amazon is launching a digital assets enterprise, according to four sources familiar with the matter, who said that an NFT initiative is expected in the spring."
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has launched a project to digitize car titles and put them on a private blockchain.
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