Mind the AI Gap
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
404 Media [$] on how GenAI tools may be used to help implement and expand books bans and other censorship efforts in schools and libraries
Amazon is suing Perplexity.AI over its agentic AI browser, which can order items from Amazon’s website on behalf of its users [Law360 ($) | Yahoo! Finance | Docket | Complaint]
OpenAI has changed its usage policies to discourage users from querying ChatGPT for “high-stakes” decisionmaking, such as medical and legal advice [Artificial Lawyer | OpenAI blogpost | CTV News]
Researchers are concerned about the level of errors generated by OpenAI’s Whisper GenAI transcription tool, especially if used for patient interactions with medical personnel
Getty Images has lost a major portion of its UK lawsuit over copyright infringement against Stability.AI, the developer of a GenAI image generator but won a limited ruling on trademark infringement [ABC News | AP News]
Blockchain/Digital Currency
Ether’s value has continued to drop after reports of a multi-million hack
Data Privacy
From CNBC: “Flock cameras lead Colorado police to wrong suspect: ‘It became my job to prove my innocence’”
Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore. and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill. have sent a letter to the FTC urging an investigation into Flock Safety over issues of cybersecurity and the lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA) [TechCrunch | 404 Media ($) | Wyden press release | Letter]
From 404 Media [$]: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person’s identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for 15 years, including those of U.S. citizens”
Due to a newly enacted California law, Internet browsers will need to include an “opt-out preference signal” users can implement to tell all websites to not sell or share their data with third parties [Markup | Orange County Register | AB-566 Bill page]
Miscellaneous
A brand of Chinese drones popular with U.S. consumers could end up banned from import and sale due to national security concerns [C|Net | Engadget]
Long Read(ish)s
Jabarian, Brian and Imas, Alex, Artificial Writing and Automated Detection (August 26, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5407424 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5407424
Lorber, Pascale, Generative AI, law schools and assessment: where next? The Law Teacher, 59(3), 372–390 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2025.2535822
Tontrup, Stephan and Sprigman, Christopher Jon, Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI (October 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5696827 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5696827
[Video Podcast] LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick with Nilay Patel, “The AI Law Era is already here,” Decoder, Oct. 27, 2025
[Video] Emily Bender, Critical Legal AI Literacies: “LLMs and the Lawyers’s Search of Meaning,” Yale Law Library, Sept. 9, 2025