Lawyer Ex Machina #48: TMI, AI

August 24, 2023

AI Attendees of hacker conference DefCon 'red-teamed' generative AI systems to expose vulnerabilities, encouraged by government officials and major tech...

Lawyer Ex Machina #47 - Summer ed. - August 2023

August 17, 2023

Related: 4 Generative AI Issues that Are Likely to Keep Judges Up at Night [Law.com ($)] AI The Federal Election Commission is seeking comments on a petition...

Lawyer Ex Machina #46 - Summer ed. - July 2023

July 13, 2023

AI - Lawsuits P.M. v. OpenAI LP (3:23-cv-03199) [Docket] Focus of lawsuit: personal data/data privacy Stories: Legal Dive | Search Engine Journal J. L. et al...

Lawyer Ex Machina #45 - Summer ed. - June 2023

June 15, 2023

AI "European Parliament lawmakers on Wednesday passed the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, putting the bloc a critical step closer to formally adopting...

Lawyer Ex Machina #44: Summer ed. - May 2023

May 18, 2023

(Editor's note: the publishing schedule for LexM will change from now until mid-August; this is the last newsletter for May 2023, and there will be only one...

Lawyer Ex Machina #43: Congratulations, Class of 2023

May 11, 2023

AI Bloomberg Law has unveiled Contract Solutions, a new AI-enabled contract workflow for legal departments.Last week, the White House announced new actions...

Lawyer Ex Machina #42: May the 4th Be With You

May 4, 2023

AI Lexis has just announced it will be releasing generative AI tools to be part of Lexis+, with conversational search, summarizationa and drafting...

Lawyer Ex Machina #41: going into finals

April 27, 2023

AI Music and AI Did you miss the viral 'heart on my sleeve' track produced with AI-generated soundalikes of Drake & The Weeknd before it was removed from...

Lawyer Ex Machina #40

April 20, 2023

AI A legal insurer has drafted a letter on the use of ChatGPT by law firms, calling it “Not Ready for Prime Time.” [LegalTech News ($)] A group of 12 members...

Lawyer Ex Machina #39: Defamed by an AI chatbot

April 13, 2023

AI Are defamatory statements made by a product powered by large language models actionable in a court of law, and against who? This Australian mayor may be...

Lawyer Ex Machina #38

April 6, 2023

AI From MIT Technology Review ($): how advances in AI are likely to change legal work. Related: Goldman Sachs report on GenAI's potential effects on economic...

Lawyer Ex Machina #37: pausing AI?

March 30, 2023

AI A "Viewpoint" article from JAMA Networks on AI-generated medical advice considers some of the legal and regulatory protections (and lack thereof) for...

Lawyer Ex Machina #36:

March 23, 2023

AI LexisNexis has released a survey on the attitudes of lawyers and law students towards GenAI [Summary here]Lexis subsidiary Lex Machina also has a survey...

Lawyer Ex Machina #35: Happy Stochastic Parrots Day

March 16, 2023

AI The Copyright Office has issued new guidance on "works containing material generated by artificial intelligence."Bloomberg Tax [($)]:...

Lawyer Ex Machina #34: allergy season

March 9, 2023

AI Some responses to the Copyright Office's revocation of copyright in portions of a comic book that included pictures created by an AI image generator: A...

Lawyer Ex Machina #33: the techshow edition

March 2, 2023

AI From WaPo ($): algorithms have been used to help companies hire and promote employees; they're now likely to be used to decide who gets laid off....

Lawyer Ex Machina #32: Sci-fi mag inundated by ChatGPT subs

February 23, 2023

AI SSRN has created a hub for papers devoted to AI and GPT-3 topics, including law scholarship.Employees at both Amazon and JP Morgan have been warned...

Lawyer Ex Machina #31: Bing = Sydney

February 16, 2023

AI Multi-national law firm Allen & Overy announced that it is the first law firm to integrate a generative AI product, called Harvey, into its document...

Lawyer Ex Machina #30: one bad answer from Bard, a $100 million loss for Alphabet

February 9, 2023

AI A group of researchers from various universities and companies have released a paper showing that generative AI models can memorize a small number of...

Lawywer Ex Machina #29: Groundhog Day

February 2, 2023

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...

Lawyer Ex Machina #28: DoNotPassGo

January 26, 2023

AI Will the war in Ukraine accelerate the development of fully autonomous drones for warfare, able to "identify, select and attack targets without help from...

Lawyer Ex Machina #27: the AI generation

January 19, 2023

[Editor's note; This week's newletter is longer than usual because so much appears so timely, especially ChatGPT ...] ChatGPT First - did ChatGPT really take...

Lawyer Ex Machina #26: Robo-lawyers in traffic court

January 11, 2023

AI Is the end-game in legal research AI to replace treatises? Is this a question only a librarian would ask?— Rebecca Fordon (@theFordon) January 11, 2023...

Lawyer Ex Machina #25: Happy New Year

January 5, 2023

Crypto Tweet | Docket (RECAP Archive) | Memorandum Opinion and Order In Re Celsius Network LLCForbes has published what purports to be a draft of the...

Lawyer Ex Machina #24: Happy holidays

December 8, 2022

This is the last newsletter for this year ... hope to see you all in 2023. Artificial Intelligence (Credit to attorney David Shulman prompting ChatGPT to...

Lawyer Ex Machina #23: Finals time

December 1, 2022

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a new policy by the Police Department that would authorize the use lethal force against suspects by...

Lawyer Ex Machina: Happy Thanksgiving

November 23, 2022

PacerPro, which has provided automated tools for accessing and collecting federal court documents via PACER, has now unveiled StatePro, giving the same tools...

Lawyer Ex Machina #21: Crypto contagion

November 17, 2022

Playing up an AI race between China and the U.S. may lead to increased military applications as well as less ethical and legal scrutiny of AI products, some...

Lawyer Ex Machina #20: I voted

November 10, 2022

<br /> NYPD Partners With Amazon Surveillance App To Access User Posts | New York City, NY Patch Police say the partnership will help them protect New...

Lawyer Ex Machina #19: how much for a blue check?

November 3, 2022

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Lawyer Ex Machina: Happy Halloween!

October 27, 2022

From Business Insider (via Apple News): "Lawyers Rush to Benefit From Arizona's New Rules on Law Firm Ownership" [PrintFriendly] Sen. Mark Warner is the...

Lawyer Ex Machina #17: The Lettuce Won

October 20, 2022

A Stable Diffusion vid - "human evolution" by Fabio Comparelli: A post shared by . SEC Chairman Gary Gensler wants Congress to "give the Commodity Futures...

Lawyer Ex Machina #16: that crisp fall air

October 12, 2022

Two items from Bloomberg Law: Victims of crypto and NFT fraud can take theft loss deductions [$]Why lawyers reject non-attorney firm ownership [$] Do you do...

Lawyer Ex Machina #15: Away

October 5, 2022

A new study estimates that Bitcoin mining causes climate damage to a similar degree as gasoline consumption and beef production. From the ACLU: Algorithmic...

Lawyer Ex Machina #14: Happy Silent Movie Day

September 29, 2022

LawPath, an Australian legal document and contract management company that focuses on small businesses, is now courting small businesses in the US. An op-ed...

Lawyer Ex Machina #13: A Very Lucky Number

September 22, 2022

Over the weekend, Gov. Newsom signed the State Bar association funding bill, one provision of which restricts the State Bar from spending funds on efforts to...

Lawyer Ex Machina #12: Pumpkin Spice Season

September 15, 2022

Thomsom Reuters is unveiling a new upgrade of its core legal research product, called Westlaw Precision. Features include enhancements to KeyCite, graphical...

Lawyer Ex Machina #12: long live the King

September 8, 2022

An opinion from Law360: ABA Stance On Role Of Nonlawyers Is Too Black And White [$] What is a data sanctuary and how might California be poised to become one...

Lawyer Ex Machina #11: a "general holiday for the laboring classes"

September 1, 2022

"More Than $100 Million Worth of NFTs Have Been Stolen This Year, a New Report Finds." A acquaintance/colleague of mine has written a short piece on what...

Lawyer Ex Machina #10: the NY Times Pitchbot edition

August 25, 2022

There doesn't seem to be a lot of good news coming out of El Salvador regarding its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, but one fintech firm seems to be...

Lawyer Ex Machina #9: Feel the Heat

August 17, 2022

[Editor's note: starting next week, the newsletter will be sent out on Thursdays, except for holidays.] A bill in the California Legislature that would have...

Lawyer Ex Machina #8: the calm before the 1Ls

August 10, 2022

So. Much. About. Legal. Services. Profs. Nora Ingstrom and Scott Cummings have written an op-ed for Bloomberg Law calling for amending the current bill in...

Lawyer Ex Machina #7: extra long edition

August 3, 2022

It appears likely that consideration of a bill to regulate what's known as stablecoins (cryptocurrency that's backed by a fiat one) will be delayed until...

Lawyer Ex Machina #6: The Dog Days of Summer

July 27, 2022

A fairly new paper on SSRN by Frank Pasquale and Gianclaudio Malgieri "proposes a system of 'unlawfulness by default' for AI systems," where the burden of...

Lawyer Ex Machina #5:

July 20, 2022

Have you been told to use a VPN to protect your privacy while online? U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have sent a letter to the...

Lawyer Ex Machina #4:

July 13, 2022

A semi-popular Twitter thread: Microsoft Excel is used by 99.99% of the world’s businesses, and most people still don’t know how to use it. Here are 10...

Lawyer Ex Machina #3: the last of the fireworks

July 6, 2022

(Editorial note: I worked with Eric Goldman at SCU and I am admittedly biased due to his scholarship, the passion he brings to the issues of Internet law and...

Lawyers Ex Machina #2: [insert funny but harmless phrase here]

June 29, 2022

Meta (FKA Facebook) is facing eight lawsuits in different jurisdictions on the same subject - whether the algorithms on FB and Instagram causes addictive...

Inaugural newsletter

June 22, 2022

Hello and welcome to Lawyer Ex Machina! Lawyers are optimistic about legal technology in general, but may not like the tech tools they've been given to use....