17 Articles about AI & Legal Issues

Judge Blasts Law Firm for using ChatGPT to Estimate Legal Costs – Futurism  

AI Use in Law Practice Needs Common Sense, Not More Court Rules – Bloomberg

How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers – Law 360

China court says AI broke copyright law in apparent world first – Semafor 

Generative AI in the legal industry: The 3 waves set to change how the business works – Reuters

Harvard Law Expert Explains How AI my Transform the Legal Profession in 2042 – Harvard Law School 

How Artificial Intelligence is making its way into the legal system – The Marshall Project

AI Will Soon Streamline Litigation Practice for Patent Attorneys – Bloomberg  

How AI-Assisted Research helps legal professionals complete quality research faster and create revenue opportunities – Reuters

Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on artificial intelligence in the courts  - NPR

AI’s Billion-Dollar Copyright Battle Starts With a Font Designer – Bloomberg

Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law – New York Times

The New York Times’s OpenAI lawsuit could put a damper on AI’s 2024 ambitions – Fast Company  

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free – Futurism

What If We Held ChatGPT to the Same Standard as Claudine Gay? The problem with generative AI is plagiarism, not copyright – The Atlantic

The New York Times’ Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Threatens the Future of AI and Fair Use – Data Innovation  

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.  – New York Times

7 Media Webinars this week about media law, sports, ChatGPT, interviews, and more 

Mon, April 3 - Media Law Office Hours

What: Journalists with legal questions to help find answers with an attorney who specializes in this area.  

Who: Attorney Matthew Leish

When: 5 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: New York’s Deadline Club

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Tue, April 4 - SPJ Sports Zoom

What: We will discuss Adam's groundbreaking career, plus participants may have the ability to ask Adam questions about his journey to ESPN.

Who: Adam Schefter, ESPN Sr. NFL Insider

When: 7 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists

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Tues, April 4 - Benefits and Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI Technologies

What: Examples of generative AI technology, then panelists will critically evaluate benefits and risks of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies.Will generative AI technologies change the practice of law, and if so, how can legal education adapt?

Who: Amy Milligan, Assistant Director of Legal Writing, UofSC School of Law; Jack Neil, Founder and CEO, Hank AI; Eve Ross, Reference Librarian, UofSC School of Law; Seth Stoughton, Professor of Law, UofSC School of Law; Bryant Walker Smith, Associate Professor of Law, UofSC School of Law. 

When: 7 pm. Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: $25

Sponsor: University of South Carolina School of Law

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Wed, April 5 - Rethinking the Interview

What: In an Unequal World, Do We Need New Rules?

Who: Freelance science journalist Tara Haelle who frequently speaks and writes about ethical dilemmas in journalism. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, etc. Naseem Miller, a senior editor at The Journalist’s Resource, a project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

When: 6:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: NYU

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Wed, April 5 - How to develop and manage collaborative investigations

What: Attendees will receive information, tips and resources on how to develop and manage collaborative investigative projects. The webinar will include information for both news organizations and freelance journalists.

Who: This session will be led by Dianna Hunt, Senior Editor at Indian Country Today and a member of Fund for Investigative Journalism Board of Directors, and Bridget Thoreson, Institute for Nonprofit News Director of Collaborations.

When: 11 am, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Center for Cooperative Media

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Wed, April 5 - How to Explain Data Through Visualization and Storytelling

What: Learn key strategies, tools and processes you can use to make data storytelling and visualization a reality.   

Who: Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Director of Evaluation and Impact, State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management; Eva Pereira, Chief Data Officer, City of Los Angeles; Stefanie Costa Leabo, Chief Data Officer, City of Boston; Ty Caldwell, Tableau Developer, The Management Performance Hub, State of Indiana; Gabriel Mullen, Principal Sales Engineer – SLED, Snowflake

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: GovLoop

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Thu, April 6 - Customer Experience in the Age of AI

What: How leading companies are using “intelligent experience engines” to assemble high-quality customer experiences using AI powered by customer data.

Who: David C. Edelman, executive adviser and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and Mark Abraham, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Harvard Business Review

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19 free (mostly one hour) Journalism courses

Free short online courses to strengthen your skills and add a line to your resume. Most of these Poynter courses are one-hour in length or less.

Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values - A five-hour, self-directed course that covers basics in five areas: newsgathering, interviewing, ethics, law and diversity.

Telling Stories with Sound - Learn the fundamentals of audio reporting and editing in this self-directed course.

How to Spot Misinformation Online - Learn simple digital literacy skills to outsmart algorithms, detect falsehoods and make decisions based on factual information

Understanding Title IX - This course is designed to help journalists understand the applications of Title IX.

Clear, Strong Writing for Broadcast Journalism - One-hour video tutorial

Powerful Writing: Leverage Your Video and Sound - In this one-hour video tutorial, early-career journalists will learn how to seamlessly combine audio, video and copy in captivating news packages.

Writing for the Ear - In this five-part course, you’ll learn everything you need to write more effective audio narratives.

Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online 

News Sense: The Building Blocks of News - What makes an idea or event a news story?

Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More - Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

Avoiding Plagiarism and Fabrication - For authors, editors, educators, journalists, journalism students, news producers and news consumers

The Writer’s Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use

Ethics of Journalism Build or refine your process for making ethical decisions

Conducting Interviews that Matter  

Make Design More Inclusive: Defeat Unconscious Bias in Visuals

Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers -Three important areas of media law that specifically relate to gathering information and publishing online: defamation, privacy and copyright

Freedom of Information and Your Right to Know -How to use the Freedom of Information Act, Public Records Laws and Open Meetings Laws to uphold your right to know the government’s actions

Journalism and Trauma - How traumatic stress affects victims and how to interview trauma victims with compassion and respect

How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust (International Edition) -What news audiences in various parts of the world don’t understand about how journalism works

When your appliances work as police informants

Suppose police suspect a man of organizing a political protest that turned violent, muses the ACLU’s Nathan Wessler, who argued the Carpenter case (on digital privacy) for the ACLU before the Supreme Court. The suspect’s smart meter and thermostat confirm that a handful of people showed up at his home and stayed there the two nights before the demonstration; the suspect’s smart refrigerator ordered a bunch of soda and snack food on those days, which was all consumed; after someone asked Alexa to play some music in his living room, a voice in the background said, “Tomorrow, we’re going to really show them”; and that night, the suspect’s smart mattress recorded him sleeping fitfully and his heart beating faster than normal. The police arrest the man on conspiracy and other charges. He eventually proves he’s innocent – some old friends visited from out of town, and planned a day of sightseeing—but not before a legal nightmare turns his life upside down.

 "There’s not a person among us who doesn’t have private aspects of their life that could create difficulty for them if they were exposed,” Wessler says. “And misinterpreted.”

David Henry writing in 1843