Microsoft Doing Illegal Things, Promoting Chatbots Falsely Marketed as "Intelligent"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 10, 2023

• Microsoft is willing to sacrifice Teams in Windows 11 – and I’m OK with that

  It looks like Microsoft is in trouble again with European Union regulators over anti-competitive practices, and it could sacrifice Teams in Windows 11 to avoid any conflicts.

• More on the Sanctions Hearing for Lawyer Who Used ChatGPT, Which Fabricated Precedents

  Matthew Russell Lee (Inner City Press) has what appears to be a live-Tweet transcript of the hearing, as it progressed; I can't be certain that it's accurate, but it seems credible enough to link to.

• Argument Against Sanctions for Lawyer's Filing of Motion That Contained AI-Hallucinated Cases

  The memorandum of law, filed by the lawyer's counsel, is here. It seems quite well argued, though I don't agree with the backup argument (in Part II.E) that the lawyer's reliance on ChatGPT as a source for the supposed text of precedents was not just innocent but "reasonabl[e]." Here's the opening paragraph of the introduction [...]

• Another Judicial Order Related to Lawyer Use of Generative AI

  An order governing filings before Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes (N.D. Ill.), adopted May 31 (paragraph breaks added): The Court has adopted a new requirement in the fast-growing and fast-changing area of generative artificial intelligence ("AI") and its use in the practice of law.

• US Congress to consider new bills on risks related to artificial intelligence

  US senators on Thursday introduced two separate bipartisan artificial intelligence bills on Thursday amid growing interest in addressing issues surrounding the technology.