HR Brew: “…As ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies provide a helping hand to employees, HR teams are grappling with policies regarding its use, including disclosure. Some companies have banned or restricted employees from the tech. Others are embracing the possibilities the tech can offer to employee productivity and see it as a tool to… Continue Reading
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Why won’t Google give a straight answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?
Skiff Blog: “… Google’s Smart Compose feature was trained on Gmail users’ private emails.Bard is not Google’s only language-focused machine learning model. Anyone who’s used Gmail in the past few years knows about the Smart Compose and Smart Reply features, which auto-complete sentences for you as you go. According to Google’s 2019 paper introducing Smart Compose, the feature was… Continue Reading
FTC Finds Amazon Ring Cameras Responsible for “Egregious Violations of Users’ Privacy,” Requires Data Deletion
EPIC: “In a proposed consent order released today, the Federal Trade Commission will require Amazon to “delete data products such as data, models, and algorithms derived from videos it unlawfully reviewed,” implement new privacy and security measures, and pay a fine of $5.8 million. The proposed order was published alongside a complaint finding that Amazon… Continue Reading
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are
The Guardian: “Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”. This is the term that architects and boosters of generative AI have settled on to characterize responses served up by chatbots that are wholly manufactured, or… Continue Reading
Test driving Google’s Search Generative Experience
Search Engine Land, Eric Enge: “I’ve had access to Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE) for about a week now. I decided to “formally” put it to the test using the same 30 queries from my March mini-study comparing the top generative AI solutions. Those queries were designed to push the limits of each platform.… Continue Reading
Generative AI and Legal: Its Not a Game Changer Until the Game Has Changed
Stephen Embry – “…I agree that any change in the current model for paying for legal services will likely be slow. I say this in part based on history: over and over, we have been told that something will upset the apple cart in legal. Over and over, it hasn’t, or at least only a… Continue Reading
MyHeritage debuts Reimagine, an AI app for scanning, fixing and even animating old photos
Tech Crunch: “AI is impacting the realm of photography, ranging from tools for professionals like Adobe Photoshop’s new generative AI, to those for consumers, like Google Photos’ forthcoming Magic Editor. Now, genealogy company MyHeritage is turning to AI to make it easier for families to preserve their memories with the launch of its latest app,… Continue Reading
Congressional Research Service Syndication Feed
Disruptive Library Technology Jester; “One of the hidden gems of the Library of Congress is the Congressional Research Service (CRS). With a staff of about 600 researchers, analysts, and writers, the CRS provides “policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation.” It is kind of… Continue Reading
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language
Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson, Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language, Cognition, Volume 224, 2022, 105070 [h/t Pete Weiss]. “Despite their ever-increasing presence in everyday life, contracts remain notoriously inaccessible to laypeople. Why? Here, a corpus analysis (n ≈10 million words) revealed that contracts contain startlingly high proportions of… Continue Reading
In Pursuit of a Better Book How AI fixes e-books’ sins
Every: “To embrace e-books is to embrace change, to accept that books are collections of words and ideas, to believe that the form factor of a book is not sacred. For a book is “a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together,” according to the New Oxford American Dictionary. An e-book,… Continue Reading
Sound Recordings of Supreme Court of the United States Now Fully Digitized
NARA: “The Moving Image and Sound Branch is pleased to announce that the sound recordings of RG 267: Records of the Supreme Court of the United States have been fully digitized and are available for listening and download through the National Archives Catalog. The audio recordings in Record Group 267 are organized into three series, … Continue Reading
Best Practices for Disclosure and Citation When Using Artificial Intelligence Tools
Shope, Mark, Best Practices for Disclosure and Citation When Using Artificial Intelligence Tools (January 26, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4338115 “This article is intended to be a best practices guide for disclosing the use of artificial intelligence tools in legal writing. The article focuses on using artificial intelligence tools that aid in drafting textual material,… Continue Reading
