Category «AI»

I’m drowning in AI features I never asked for and I absolutely hate it

MakeUseOf: “At first, all of this AI stuff felt exciting. I was curious to try everything (I was actually one of the few naive people who thought the Rabbit R1 was a good product before it eventually launched), and for a while, it felt useful.But over time, I realized AI isn’t just affecting smartphones; it’s …

Subjects: AI, E-Mail, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft, Search Engines

Courts Adapt to the Challenges of Generative AI

Via LLRX – Courts Adapt to the Challenges of Generative AI – AI in Law & Legal Tech Expert Nicole L. Black frames how AI is changing how legal work gets done, and the effects aren’t limited to law offices. Other legal organizations are equally impacted, including the courts. As judicial offices around the country grapple with …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ring’s CEO says his cameras can almost ‘zero out crime’ within the next 12 months

The Verge Jamie Siminoff’s new book, Ding Dong charts how his video doorbell startup turned into a home security behemoth. A set of changes to TikTok’s law enforcement policy make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with government and “regulatory authorities.” TikTok did not respond to repeated questions about the changes. …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Largest Study of Its Kind Shows AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time

BBC: “New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

OpenAI launches Atlas browser to compete with Google Chrome

AP News: “OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in more internet …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters

The New York Times Gift Article includes dozens of images: “…Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022, according to a review by The New York Times of his posts to the social network. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Social Media

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy (July 03, 2024). 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4884485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4884485 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Updated Map of US Copyright Suits v. AI companies

(Oct. 19, 2025) – “We added Woulard v. Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio, a case filed by independent music artists against the music generator company Uncharted Labs. This is the 3rd lawsuit against Uncharted Labs in the United States (others filed by UMG Recordings and Justice). DOWNLOAD PDF OF MAP WITH CLICKABLE LINKS TO EACH DOCKET

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Generative AI for Data Visualisation

Can generative AI create good data visualisations? – Nicola Rennie: “This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset. Nicola Rennie October 8, 2025. “Generative AI tools have been around for a little while now, and they’re mostly advertised as being able …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers  Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, October 2025 PDF Version Knowledge & Understanding Analysis & Evaluation Use & Application Notes In July 2024, the ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force was created to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers that align with the evolving needs …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Over 50% of New Online Articles Are Being Cranked Out by AI

Vice: “About a year ago, AI began outpacing human writers on the internet. For every one article written by a real-life, blood-bag of a meat puppet, slightly more than one was written by a machine. Don’t get all twisted up about “slightly more than one” article; it’s fractions, my friends. The news was broken when …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft