21 Articles about AI & Legal Issues

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Musicians including Kate Bush and Billy Ocean released a “silent record” in outrage at a proposed change to British copyright law - New York Times

Google's AI previews erode the internet, US edtech company says in lawsuit - Reuters

Judge Throws Out Facial Recognition Evidence In Murder Case – Forbes  

AI 'hallucinations' in court papers spell trouble for lawyers - Reuters

Minnesota Grad Student Expelled for Allegedly Using AI Is Suing School – Gizmodo

Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents – Futurism 

Copyright Office Releases Second AI Report – JD Supra

News publishers sue Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement - Axios

Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US – Associated Press

Fake cases, judges’ headaches and new limits: Australian courts grapple with lawyers using AI – The Guardian

No. 42 law firm by head count could face sanctions over fake case citations generated by AI – ABA Journal

AI Bias Through the Lens of Antidiscrimination Law – Vanderbilt Law

Bias in Large Language Models—and Who Should Be Held Accountable – Stanford Law

AI’s Racial Bias Claims Tested in Court as US Regulations Lag – Bloomberg

Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools – Variety

AI making up cases can get lawyers fired, scandalized law firm warns - ArsTechnica

Alexi Says Its New AI Tool for Litigators Is Capable of Advanced Legal Reasoning – LawNext 

Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition – Tech Crunch

The Growth of AI Law: Exploring Legal Challenges in Artificial Intelligence - National Law Review

AI’s Legal Storm: The Three Battles That Will Shape Its Future - Forbes

Guardian signs licensing deal with ChatGPT owner OpenAI – Press Gazette

An Arms Race of Research Misconduct

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Retractions are rising in medical research literature, even as more eyes examine peer-reviewed papers for accuracy. AI is powering an arms race in the world of research misconduct, making it easier for scientific fraud to occur, and for editors to identify and root out. In 2002, 1 in 5,000 papers were retracted, Oransky said. In 2023 retractions increased to 1 in 500 papers. -AAPS news magazine

Self-Reflection is Not Enough

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Arthur Chickering writes that helping “students deepen their understanding about reaching for authenticity and spiritual growth ... starts and ends with self-reflection and employs that throughout.”

To say the journey is all about self-reflection is too restrictive. The learning adventure may dip into navel-gazing occasionally, but discovering the insights of other people who have gone before will not happen quickly. A fruitful journey requires a shift away from the self toward a focus on something greater. A student must sort through the dirt to discover valuable nuggets of truth. This often happens through reading the great thinkers and then wrestling with the questions and ideas we discover. We stand on the shoulders of others to peer down the road a bit further than we could on our own. We can waste time and energy by insisting on clearing a path by ourselves.

The Chickering quote comes from his book "Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education." Chickering understands the value of encouraging students to read great works. But his goal, he writes, is to help them evolve their “own" answers. However, good teaching goes beyond applauding young people just for coming to their own conclusions. Will the answers stand up to criticism? Can they effectively defend their positions? More importantly, can they live those answers?

Stephen Goforth

15 Articles about AI & Facial Recognition

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Jobs on Creativity

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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it; they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Steve Jobs (born Feb, 24, 1955)

AI-generated Murder Stories

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A so-called “true crime” YouTube channel has millions of views with AI-generated murder stories — none of which actually happened. There was no language on the channel’s homepage or in video descriptions to tell a viewer otherwise. If you looked at the comments on his videos, there were a lot of people who couldn’t tell they weren’t real. -404 Media

News Copycats

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"ChatGPT will often link to news publishers aggregating original reporting, elevating these copycat articles over the initial story, or failing to surface the initial story at all. Frequently these copycats are far less reputable, including blogs and websites that have outright plagiarized established news outlets. This copycat citation problem even plagues news publishers that have active licensing deals with OpenAI." - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Stress can do a body good

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Kelly McGonigal, a psychologist at Stanford University and the author of “The Upside of Stress”, helps people rethink stress by telling them that it is what we feel when something we care about is at stake. She asks them to make two lists: of things that stress them; and of things that matter to them. “People realise that if they eliminated all stress their lives would not have much meaning,” she says. “We need to give up the fantasy that you can have everything you want without stress.”

In 2012 a group of scientists in America looked back at the 1998 National Health Interview Survey, which included questions about how much stress the 30,000 participants had experienced in the previous year, and whether they believed stress harmed their health. Next, they pored over mortality records to find out which respondents had died. They found that those who both reported high stress and believed it was harming their health had a 43% higher risk of premature death. Those who reported high stress but did not believe it was hurting them were less likely to die early than those who reported little stress.

The study shows correlation, not causation. But since much stress is unavoidable, working out how to harness it may be wiser than fruitless attempts to banish it.

Read more in the Economist

22 Recent Articles about Using AI

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An AI Prompting Trick That Will Change Everything for You – Information Week

How to use Perplexity AI: Tutorial, pros and cons – Tech Target

What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide - Nature

How DeepSeek’s Lower-Power, Less-Data Model Stacks Up – Wall Street Journal  

Adobe’s Sora-rivaling AI video generator is now available for everyone – The Verge

ChatGPT Search is now open to everyone — no account required – Tom’s Guide

ChatGPT's Deep Research is a promising intern - Axios 

I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life – Washington Post

AI bots enter the group chat – Axio 

ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. DeepSeek: The Battle to Be My AI Work Assistant – Wall Street Journal 

How Helpful Is Operator, OpenAI’s New A.I. Agent? – New York Times

How DeepSeek and ChatGPT differed in our hands-on test - Axios

AI Mistakes Are Very Different From Human Mistakes – Spectrum  

How to use AI to keep your New Year's resolutions – Axios  

What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work? – Harvard Business Review

Google Unveils A.I. Agent That Can Use Websites on Its Own – New York Times

OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, aims to kickstart the AI video era – Washington Post

Why Are Women Less Likely to Use AI? – Bloomberg

The Many Ways WSJ Readers Use AI in Their Everyday Lives – Wall Street Journal

How To Create And Customize An AI Podcast With Google’s NotebookLM – Forbes

Using AI in PR: Experts explain how AI is enhancing PR workflows – Muck Rack

How to Get a New Headshot Using AI – CNET

How to Grieve

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There are recovery programs for people grieving the loss of a parent, sibling, or spouse. You can buy books on how to cope with the death of a beloved pet or work through the anguish of a miscarriage. We speak openly with one another about the bereavement that can accompany a layoff, a move, a diagnosis, or a dream deferred. But no one really teaches you how to grieve the loss of your faith. You’re on your own for that.

Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday 

18 Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

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What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide - Nature

Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Peer Review: Insights from Journal Reviewers – Springer

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’ – TechCrunch

AI-Generated Junk Science Is a Big Problem on Google Scholar, Research Suggests – Gizmodo 

What happens when you let ChatGPT assess impact case studies? – London School of Economics  

Generative AI in the research process – A survey of researchers’ practices and perceptions – Science Direct 

Springer Nature offers to sell authors “AI Summaries of Their Own Work” – Futurism

Teens Are Doing AI Research Now. Is That a Good Thing? - Chronicle of Higher Ed

How is content generated by ChatGPT infiltrating scientific papers published in premier journals? – Wiley

Elsevier denies AI use in response to evolution journal board resignations – Retraction Watch  

Springer Nature reveals AI-driven tool to 'automate some editorial quality checks' – The Bookseller 

Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers - ArsTechnica 

Generative artificial intelligence and academic writing: friend or foe? - Elsevier

Detecting Research Misconduct in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – The Scientist

Can AI-generated podcasts boost science engagement? – Nature

AI-Authored Abstracts ‘More Authentic’ Than Human-Written Ones – Inside Higher Ed

Scholars Are Supposed to Say When They Use AI. Do They? - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Will ChatGPT Get Tenure? - Leiden Vladtrice

Do You Know what an AI Cannot Do? Try this Multiple Choice Question

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If you write a prompt asking an AI to do each of these things, which would it be good at doing? 

a. Give me a cube root of a seven-digit number.

b. Write text backwards.

c. Give me a 5x12 animated GIF of green, falling Matrix letters in Python code.

d. I have a stack of Fiesta ware plates of these colors: green, yellow, orange, red, purple. Two slots below the purple one, I placed a yellow one, then one slot above the green one, I placed a black one. What is the final stack of plates?

e. Give me a list of 10 examples of something.  

Riley Goodside, lead prompt engineer for Scale AI gives the answer in a conversation with Semafor