Category «Internet»

AALL State of the Profession Report – How Law Libraries Are Navigating AI, Hybrid Work, and Expanding Roles

LawSites, Bob Ambrogi: “Law libraries across academia, private practice, and government are contending with rapid changes in technology, staffing, and service delivery, according to the 2025 State of the Profession report released this week by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Based on survey responses from 510 legal information professionals across the United States, …

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

NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court

Ars Technica: “Last week, OpenAI raised objections in court, hoping to overturn a court order requiring the AI company to retain all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely,” including deleted and temporary chats. But Sidney Stein, the US district judge reviewing OpenAI’s request, immediately denied OpenAI’s objections. He was seemingly unmoved by the company’s claims that the order …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

LLRX June 2025 Issue – 7 Articles and 6 Columns

Changing the Game – Algorithmic Game Theory in Ransomware Negotiations – Ransomware attacks are a growing threat, inflicting significant operational, financial, and reputational damage on organizations worldwide. With attackers exploiting information asymmetry, traditional game theory negotiation strategies are inadequate in minimizing these risks. This paper by Jawad Ramal explores how Algorithmic Game Theory (AGT) can strengthen …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Recommended Books

Once it was mostly a taco website. Now it’s covering L.A. ICE raids.

Washington Post via MSN – no paywall: “It all happened so quickly. On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended upon Los Angeles, raiding businesses and arresting more than 40 people. Once word got out on social media, protests began and L.A. Taco’s six-person news team headed out to the streets. Investigative reporter Lexis-Olivier …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

2025 The KMWorld AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management

KM World, Marydee Ojala – “Attention to AI technologies, including generative AI and agentic AI, has escalated significantly since we expanded our list to 100 companies last year. It seems almost intuitively obvious to say there’s been a revolutionary transformation in KM, driven by and pushed into due to AI technologies. On the one hand, …

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

AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None

Floridi, Luciano, AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None (June 18, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5309682 – “The article introduces the concept of “semantic pareidolia” – our tendency to attribute consciousness, intelligence, and emotions to AI systems that lack these qualities. It examines how this psychological phenomenon leads us to perceive …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Education, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI companies start winning the copyright fight

Follow up to Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models via The Guardian: “Last week, tech companies notched several victories in the fight over their use of copyrighted text to create artificial intelligence products. Anthropic: A US judge has ruled that Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, use of books to …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories

NiemanLab: “A new policy at Law360, the legal news service owned by LexisNexis, requires that every story pass through an AI-powered “bias” detection tool before publication. The Law360 Union, which represents over 200 editorial staffers across the 350-person newsroom, has denounced the mandate since it went into effect in mid-May. On June 17, unit chair …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research