Lawyer Ex Machina #53: routing around crypto
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Related: 4 Generative AI Issues that Are Likely to Keep Judges Up at Night [Law.com ($)] AI The Federal Election Commission is seeking comments on a petition...
Lawyer Ex Machina #46 - Summer ed. - July 2023
AI - Lawsuits P.M. v. OpenAI LP (3:23-cv-03199) [Docket] Focus of lawsuit: personal data/data privacy Stories: Legal Dive | Search Engine Journal J. L. et al...
Lawyer Ex Machina #45 - Summer ed. - June 2023
AI "European Parliament lawmakers on Wednesday passed the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, putting the bloc a critical step closer to formally adopting...
Lawyer Ex Machina #44: Summer ed. - May 2023
(Editor's note: the publishing schedule for LexM will change from now until mid-August; this is the last newsletter for May 2023, and there will be only one...
Lawyer Ex Machina #43: Congratulations, Class of 2023
AI Bloomberg Law has unveiled Contract Solutions, a new AI-enabled contract workflow for legal departments.Last week, the White House announced new actions...
Lawyer Ex Machina #42: May the 4th Be With You
AI Lexis has just announced it will be releasing generative AI tools to be part of Lexis+, with conversational search, summarizationa and drafting...
Lawyer Ex Machina #41: going into finals
AI Music and AI Did you miss the viral 'heart on my sleeve' track produced with AI-generated soundalikes of Drake & The Weeknd before it was removed from...
Lawyer Ex Machina #40
AI A legal insurer has drafted a letter on the use of ChatGPT by law firms, calling it “Not Ready for Prime Time.” [LegalTech News ($)] A group of 12 members...
Lawyer Ex Machina #39: Defamed by an AI chatbot
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
AI From MIT Technology Review ($): how advances in AI are likely to change legal work. Related: Goldman Sachs report on GenAI's potential effects on economic...
Lawyer Ex Machina #37: pausing AI?
AI A "Viewpoint" article from JAMA Networks on AI-generated medical advice considers some of the legal and regulatory protections (and lack thereof) for...
Lawyer Ex Machina #36:
AI LexisNexis has released a survey on the attitudes of lawyers and law students towards GenAI [Summary here]Lexis subsidiary Lex Machina also has a survey...
Lawyer Ex Machina #35: Happy Stochastic Parrots Day
AI The Copyright Office has issued new guidance on "works containing material generated by artificial intelligence."Bloomberg Tax [($)]:...
Lawyer Ex Machina #34: allergy season
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...
