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Via LLRX – The accountability premium – A lawyer’s ability to stand behind their legal work is a real advantage over legal AI. But for many clients, paying more to transfer risk to a lawyer is a luxury — and maybe soon, an unnecessary one. Jordan Furlong‘s opening keynote at ABA TECHSHOW March 26, 2026 in …
404 Media – “After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia. “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content …
What is AnythingCounter? A live dashboard that shows real-time estimates of what happens every second in the digital world. You see numbers for AI hallucinations, deepfakes, phishing, e-waste, jobs lost to automation, and more. We take global statistics and turn them into counters that update continuously so you can watch digital activity in real time. …
Gizmodo: “Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ChatGPT and will instead opt to open the platform up to competing chatbots, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Per …
Anthropic: “Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. For the first time, AI has enabled us to collect rich, open‑ended interviews at extraordinary scale. We …
The Atlantic No Paywall – “After deliberating for nine days—and emerging at one point to tell the judge that it was having a difficult time reaching a decision—a jury in Los Angeles finally returned its verdict today, finding both Meta and Google liable for creating addictive products that caused a young woman’s mental-health problems. The …
Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Hana Lee Goldin is a expert “human” pathfinder who shares her extensive knowledge with an expanding cadre of people seeking to adopt AI in all facets of work and life. In her article, Goldin deftly illuminates one of the major risks of ChatGPT. …
Cities and Memory: “Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Each sound in the project is recomposed and reimagined by artists, as they reflect on how the sounds of our world are changing and …
How to find and vet credible data sources you can use right away – NICAR 2026 meeting – Slide Deck by Stephanie Lamm, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Greg Morton, Baltimore Banner; Sean Mussenden, University of Maryland. A new source I learned about via this presentation – WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for …
404 Media no paywall: “WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out …
Thomson Reuters, tom Martin – “At every legal technology conference, the same promise rings out: AI will automate the drudgery so lawyers can focus on what really matters. While it’s a seductive vision, it’s also contradicted by the best research we have on what actually happens when knowledge workers adopt these tools. Key points: The …
Simon Willison – “If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of combining tools with the following three characteristics. Failing to understand this can let an attacker steal your data. The lethal trifecta of …
