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Lawyer Ex Machina #59
November 9, 2023
AI Thomson Reuters has announced it will be adding generative AI features to Westlaw Precision on November 15thFrom the Wall Street Journal [$]: "When AI...
Lawyer Ex Machina #58: falling back, yet again
November 2, 2023
AI President Biden has issued an executive order on "use and trustworthy development" of AI [IAPP | NY Times ($) | Ernst & Young | | Politico]The...
Lawyer Ex Machina #57: Happy Halloween
October 26, 2023
AI New York City has unveiled a multi-initiative action plan to regulate AI, as well as a proposal to create an Office of Algorithmic Data Integrity [Wired...
Lawyer Ex Machina #56: Not a Deepfake
October 19, 2023
AI A Southern California law firm that specializes in residential and commercial evictions has been sanctioned for including fictitious legal citations in a...
Lawyer Ex Machina #55
October 12, 2023
AI From Wired [$]: "AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues"The Senate Judiciary Committee has drafted legislation to make the creation and...
Lawyer Ex Machina #54: Not so infinite
October 5, 2023
AI How lawyers are using AI and how those uses intersect with legal ethicsLegal writer Adam David Long has a wiki page tracking judicial reactions to use of...
Lawyer Ex Machina #53: routing around crypto
September 28, 2023
AI A bit lost about how many lawsuits there are against OpenAI? There's now a page tracking the 10 open suits against OpenAI, including the 2 GitHub suits;...
Lawyer Ex Machina #52: The End of Privacy?
September 21, 2023
AI A UK appellate judge announced that he used ChatGPT to write a portion of a legal summary used in a judgment, calling the chatbot "jolly useful." [The...
Lawyer Ex Machina #51: AI regulation week
September 14, 2023
Data for Progress survey on AI regulation AI Congressional actions Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources- "Recent Advances in Artificial...
Lawyer Ex Machina #50: Not getting a Nissan now
September 7, 2023
New pop-up upon logging into Lexis+ AI Another class action lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of violating a number of...
Lawyer Ex Machina #49: Back to school
August 31, 2023
AI The American Bar Association has launched an AI Task Force. Bloomberg Law has compiled a report of recent articles on the use of AI for corporate counsel:...
Lawyer Ex Machina #48: TMI, AI
August 24, 2023
AI Attendees of hacker conference DefCon 'red-teamed' generative AI systems to expose vulnerabilities, encouraged by government officials and major tech...
Lawyer Ex Machina #47 - Summer ed. - August 2023
August 17, 2023
Related: 4 Generative AI Issues that Are Likely to Keep Judges Up at Night [Law.com ($)] 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 https://twitter.com/theFordon/status/1613189055289724930 DoNotPay, an AI legal self-help app that helps user contest parking tickets and user fees, is...
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...
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