Bloomberg Law “OpenAI Inc. escaped a copyright lawsuit from a group of open-source programmers after they voluntarily dismissed their case against the company in federal court. The programmers, who allege the generative AI programming tool Copilot was trained on their code without proper attribution, filed their notice of voluntary dismissal Thursday, Read more…
ABA Journal “Law firms and in-house legal counsel are exploring artificial intelligence adoption and educating themselves to provide AI legal advice internally and externally. To better advise AI decisions, lawyers should know the benefits, shortcomings and best practices of incorporating insurance into AI risk management. Simple AI systems are already Read more…
ABA Journal Existing methods of accessing knowledge will coexist with generative As generative artificial intelligence stormed the scene over the past year with its snazzy Q&A interface, it was fair to ask whether existing ways of accessing knowledge, such as keyword search or templates, would become redundant. After all, why Read more…
Reuters WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee on Thursday unanimously approved legislation giving China’s ByteDance six months to divest from short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban. The 50-0 vote represents the most significant momentum for a U.S. crackdown on TikTok, which Read more…
ABA Journal “Generative artificial intelligence—which can generate new content based on a prompt—has the potential to “dramatically improve the efficiency of a lawyer’s practice,” but it also can pose ethical concerns, according to a Florida Bar ethics opinion approved Jan. 19. One of the pitfalls is that generative AI can “hallucinate” or Read more…
ABA Journal “Musician Dustin Ballard has turned a spare room in his Dallas home into a soundproof studio. Inside are relics from another era: a ukulele, a fiddle, a smattering of 45s and an Edison phonograph. But when he sits down at his PC to make music, he’s immersed in Read more…
The ABA Journal “Updated: The journey from conviction to exoneration can take decades, and the men and women who have been freed by the California Innocence Project collectively have spent more than 570 years in prison. Time is of the essence, yet the pro bono group has finite resources. So when Read more…
The Texas Tribune “The Supreme Court on Friday said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. The justices’ decision to take the landmark social media cases Read more…
ABA Journal “Using artificial intelligence to write admissions essays now comes with significant risks at the University of Michigan Law School, which recently asked applicants to certify that they did not use the technology for drafting purposes. False statements could result in the cancellation of an admissions offer or expulsion Read more…
Bloomberg Law “There are often disconnects between how people say they feel and what they genuinely feel. Understanding emotions can be challenging for humans, and artifical intelligence really falls short in its ability to grasp the nuances of human motivations at the core of many disputes. AI-based mediation uses sophisticated Read more…