'Taylor Swift is driving AI regulation' is a brand new sentence
AI
A bill has been introduced in the California Senate that would charge the Judicial Counsel with developing and implementing methods of detection of deepfakes submitted as evidence in courts, as well as producing training materials for judges, lawyers, and law enforcement to identify evidence that has been"tampered with by means of" AI, among other provisions [Bill Text | Law360 ($) | Law.com ($)]
From The American Lawyer [$]: "We Asked Every Am Law 100 Law Firm How They're Using Gen AI. Here's What We Learned"
George Carlin's estate is suing the creators of a comedy special that used an AI trained on Carlin's comedy routines to imitate his "signature style and cadence"
Another New York lawyer has been admonished by a federal court for submitting false legal citations generated by ChatGPT [Bloomberg Law ($) | Law360 ($) | Decision]
From Casetext, developers of the legal GenAI product, CoCounsel: "Techniques for writing effective legal AI prompts"
From Law360 ($): Opinions held by attorneys on the proposed AI rule by the 5th Circuit seem to be split between too much and not enough regulation
The FCC is proposing to ban AI-generated voices in robocalls
The Florida Bar has issued an advisory opinion on the use of GenAI by attorneys
A glimpse of the ongoing repercussions of the Taylor Swift deepfake porn debacle:
From USA Today: States that have passed legislation regarding sexually-explicit deepfake photos & videos
A bipartisan quartet of senators have introduced the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2024 (DEFIANCE Act) [Press Release | One-page summary | Congress.gov]
Round-up articles from:
Wired [$]: "If Taylor Swift Can't Defeat Deepfake Porn, No One Can"
Popular Science: "AI-generated Taylor Swift porn deepfakes ran rampant on X. Will laws catch up?"
Billboard: "The Taylor Swift Deepfakes Were Awful. How Do We Stop the Next One?"
TechCrunch: "The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable"
Blockchain/Digital Currency
Celsius exits Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will start distributing $3 billions in assets (both cryptocurrency and fiat currency) to creditors
Miscellaneous
A ransomware attack on a data center has caused outages at dozens of Swedish businesses and government agencies
Law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has issued an independent report on Cruise and the accident where one of its driverless taxis dragged a pedestrian after she was hit by another vehicle; the report finds that the company didn't intentionally mislead regulators about the accident, but a combination of "combination of technical difficulties, bad decisions and misplaced priorities" led to the reporting omission