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Shifting Sands, A Cautionary Tale Feb 23, 2026. Judge Scott Schlegel, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal. On February 13, 2026 – OpenAI retired GPT 4o from ChatGPT. That is a normal product change for a consumer platform. For courts, it is a useful reminder about what we are really doing when we build tools on top …
404 Media – “There’s a new agentic AI called Einstein that will, according to its developers, live the life of a student for them. Einstein’s website claims that the AI will attend lectures for you, write your papers, and even log into EdTech platforms like Canvas to take tests and participate in discussions. Educators told …
Reuters Institute: “Over 3.5 million documents, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos. The Jeffrey Epstein files, released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in several tranches, constituted a disclosure of rare magnitude. This trove of documents opened a window into the ecosystem surrounding a powerful, well-connected convicted child sex offender. The release offered journalists an …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Content generated by artificial intelligence has become so lifelike that it’s often impossible to tell whether a video or an image floating through social media is real or fake. Enter the A.I. detector. More than a dozen online tools claim they can tell the difference between what’s real and …
Via LLRX – How I Use ChatGPT to Create a CLE PowerPoint Deck – Jennifer Ellis documents the step-by-step process and prompts she used to create an effective ChatGPT PowerPoint presentation on cybersecurity. This template is applicable to multiple subject matters. Ellis allows highlights relevant sources and tools for attorneys to use to create AI generated …
Via LLRX – AI Under the Hood – Knowing the difference between a general AI tool and one trained on specific sources can mean the difference between getting an accurate answer and becoming quickly frustrated with outcomes that either don’t answer the question thoroughly or answer the question in a confused mixture of fact and fiction. While …
Wired – no paywall: “Last month, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the dumps shed light on Epstein’s own social circle and activities, they also provide a rare window into the inner workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies like Google respond …
Growth Memo: “I analyzed 1.2 million search results to find out exactly how AI reads. The verdict? It’s a busy editor, not a patient student… There isn’t much known about which parts of a text LLMs cite. We analyzed 18,012 citations and found a “ski ramp” distribution. 44.2% of all citations come from the first …
ARMY CYBER INSTITUTE TECHNICAL REPORT – Tracking The Trackers: Commercial Surveillance Occurring on U.S. Army Networks – May 4, 2025. “Despite current security implementations, Internet activity on DoD networks is susceptible to web trackers and commercial data collection, which have the potential to expose information about service members and unit operations. This report documents the …
It’s not just chatbots anymore – Ethan Mollick: “I have written eight of these guides since ChatGPT came out, but this version represents a very large break with the past, because what it means to “use AI” has changed dramatically. Until a few months ago, for the vast majority of people, “using AI” meant talking …
MakeUseOf: “For a long time, I didn’t think twice about pasting a contract into ChatGPT, uploading a confidential report to ask for a summary, or feeding a client proposal into a cloud AI tool. Then one day I actually stopped and read a terms of service document (something I’d been lazily skimming for years) and …
Candal-Pedreira C, Ruano-Ravina A, Fernández E, Ramos J, Campos-Varela I, Pérez-Ríos M. Does retraction after misconduct have an impact on citations? A pre–post study. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5:e003719. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003719 Background Retracted articles continue to be cited after retraction, and this could have consequences for the scientific community and general population alike. This study was conducted …
