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Spring Breaking
March 28, 2024
AI There is a public tracker for judicial orders & court rules regarding the use of AI in courtsTennessee has passed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image...
Certified non-infringing
March 21, 2024
AI Fairly Trained, a non-profit certification and auditing organization for AI models, has announced its first certification for Kelvin Legal Large Language...
Pi(e) Day 2024
March 14, 2024
AI Is New York City's AI Bias Law a failure? [Law 360 ($) | SHRM]The European Parliament has officially passed the AI Act, which is set to go into effect in...
AI Prognostication
March 7, 2024
AI Two bipartisan bills have been introduced in Congress: House Bill 7532, co-sponsored by James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), would "codif[y]...
Happy Leap Day 2024
February 29, 2024
Ad for AI mental health therapist found on the campus of UCLA AI A Canadian attorney in British Columbia has been reprimanded for submitting fictitious case...
The Day ChatGPT lost its mind
February 22, 2024
AI Ars Technica has linked to some great examples of ChatGPT spouting word salad earlier this week (ed. note: My fave is how it starts going off the rails...
The Techshow 2024 issue
February 15, 2024
Tweet from SF Fire Department with pictures of a Waymo driveless vehicle set afire by a crowd in Chinatown AI Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, handling two...
More GenAI guidelines
February 8, 2024
AI More guidelines for legal use of GenAI: New Jersey Courts: Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of AI by New Jersey Lawyers (H/T to Rebecca Fordon)American...
'Taylor Swift is driving AI regulation' is a brand new sentence
February 1, 2024
AI A bill has been introduced in the California Senate that would charge the Judicial Counsel with developing and implementing methods of detection of...
Legaltech conference season starts
January 25, 2024
AI The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into investments of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in Anthropic and OpenAI, maker of AI chatbots...
Welcome 2024!
January 18, 2024
AI The Federal Judicial Center has published the following guide: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal JudgesThe Preventing Deepfakes of...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Goodbye, 2023
December 14, 2023
[Editor's note: This is my last newsletter of the year. Happy holidays and I hope to have more news for you in January 2024] AI The EU has reached an...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Winding down 2023
December 7, 2023
AI After negotiating for 22 hours, negotiators for the European Union and its member states are pausing talks on final passage of the AI Act until Friday...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Exam Time
November 30, 2023
AI The 7th and presumably last Senate AI Forum of the year focused on issues of AI transparency, as well as its potential effects on new media, music, and...
Lawyer Ex Machina #61: The early Thanksgiving ed.
November 22, 2023
Everyone needs to watch this video in its entirety, and then send it to your friends and family immediately pic.twitter.com/WkBpXBcBJe— chris evans...
Lawyer Ex Machina #60
November 16, 2023
AI Lexis is expanding generative AI features into Courtlink, with summaries of complaints filed in U.S. district courts, and a Microsoft Word integration for...
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 12, 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...
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