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  • December 19, 2024

    Parties Debate Expert’s AI Hallucination Errors In AI Law Challenge

    MINNEAPOLIS — Plaintiffs urged a federal judge in Minnesota to reject an amended expert declaration, saying that correcting artificial intelligence-crafted hallucinations after briefing concluded would be prejudicial and that the request is untimely.  But in opposing exclusion of the expert, Minnesota’s attorney general said that even experts make mistakes and that the AI-generated errors went to the weight of the opinion about a challenge to an AI election misinformation law, not the opinion’s admissibility.

  • December 18, 2024

    OpenAI Seeks Dismissal Of YouTube UCL Claims, Says Injury, Conduct Lacking

    SAN FRANCISCO — Copyright law preempts a man’s California unfair competition law (UCL) claims in an artificial intelligence action, and the vague allegations about using YouTube videos in training ChatGPT lack any economic injury or deceptive conduct on which they could be brought and would fail anyway, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal with prejudice.

  • December 17, 2024

    Altman, Microsoft Downplay Market Power In Musk Injunction Move

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities and Microsoft Corp., opposing a preliminary injunction sought by Elon Musk, tell a federal court in California that while they partner on limited tasks, there is no agreement between them that violates federal law and that the marketplace for artificial intelligence funding remains robust.

  • December 17, 2024

    Special Master Appointed In Music Industry AI Copyright Suit

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York overseeing a music industry copyright suit involving artificial intelligence appointed a special master to the case, saying outstanding issues related to electronically stored information require more attention than the court can provide and that the appointment will help resolve the litigation.

  • December 13, 2024

    Children Charged After Allegedly Crafting Hundreds Of Nudes Of Students With AI

    LANCASTER, Pa. — Two male students at a Pennsylvania school were charged in the juvenile system for allegedly creating and distributing hundreds of nonconsensual artificial intelligence-generated images of 60 girls, 48 of whom were students at the school, according to a release from the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office (LCDA).

  • December 11, 2024

    OpenAI Challenges Ruling Denying Evidence Of New York Times’ AI Use

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. objected to a magistrate judge’s decision denying the company access to evidence of how the New York Times Co. uses artificial intelligence, saying the ruling permits the newspaper company to speak “out of both sides of its mouth” by allowing it to seek billions of dollar in damages while embracing the same technology it denigrates.

  • December 11, 2024

    Character.AI Faces 2nd Suit Claiming AI Harmed Child

    MARSHALL, Texas — Character Technologies Inc. now faces at least two products liability and negligence actions stemming from interactions with its artificial intelligence chatbot after plaintiffs filed suit in a Texas federal court claiming that the technology lacks reasonable barriers and as a result advises children to oppose their parents and harm themselves and offers age-inappropriate sexual content.

  • December 03, 2024

    COMMENTARY: The Future Of Work: Exploring The Employment And Data Protection Law Implications Of The Use Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) In European Workplaces

    By Matthew Howse, Louise Skinner, Vishnu Shankar and William Mallin

  • November 21, 2024

    COMMENTARY: Fine-Tuning Your Policy Statements For The Age Of AI

    By Michael Kearney and Judy Branham

  • December 09, 2024

    Alleging Price-Fixing, Doctors Sue MultiPlan, Insurers In Federal Court

    CHICAGO — Alleging that they were paid only about 8% of what they billed for out-of-network services because of “a buyers’ cartel dating back to at least 2015,” medical practices that refer to themselves as doctors sued MultiPlan Corp., Aetna Inc., The Cigna Group, UnitedHealth Group Inc., Elevance Health Inc. and other entities in Illinois federal court, asserting numerous claims including some under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

  • December 05, 2024

    Judge: OpenAI Must Produce Social Media; Company Disputes Discovery Destruction

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. and various news entities that accuse it of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence briefed a federal judge in New York over whether discovery evidence was deleted or merely reformatted and presents no obstruction to ongoing searches of the training material.  In a separate ruling, the judge concluded that the New York Times Co.’s knowledge and use of AI tools are not relevant or proportional to the needs of the defendants’ fair use defense and denied a motion to compel.  In another ruling, the judge said California labor law does not preclude OpenAI Inc. entities and Microsoft Corp. from producing work-related communications conducted through social media.

  • December 05, 2024

    OpenAI Disputes Claim It Ruined Discovery; Judge Denies Motion To Compel

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. and various news entities that accuse it of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence briefed a federal judge in New York over whether discovery evidence was deleted or merely reformatted and presents no obstruction to ongoing searches of the training material.  In a separate ruling, the judge concluded that the New York Times Co.’s knowledge and use of AI tools are not relevant or proportional to the needs of the defendants’ fair use defense and denied a motion to compel.

  • December 05, 2024

    Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Warning After Brief Contains AI-Created Fake Cites

    ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court denied leave to file an amended petition for review to correct fake citations created by artificial intelligence ChatGPT, saying the attorney failed to file an accompanying motion.  The court went on to decline review of a ruling affirming dismissal of a personal injury action.

  • December 05, 2024

    Judge Tosses CBD Gummies Suit Filed By Former Arkansas Governor Against Meta

    WILMINGTON, Del.  — A Delaware federal judge dismissed a suit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc., asserting that Meta violated Arkansas state and common law by allowing unidentified third parties to post advertisements on Facebook that falsely claimed that Huckabee endorsed their cannabidiol (CBD) gummies, finding, in part, that Huckabee failed to plead the element of scienter necessary under Arkansas law.

  • December 05, 2024

    Judge Relates Trio Of Cases Challenging California AI Election Law

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A trio of cases challenging recent California law governing dissemination and disclosure of deceptive political content created by artificial intelligence would benefit from being assigned to the same judge and magistrate judge, a federal judge in California said in relating the cases.

  • December 05, 2024

    AI Deepfake Teen Victim Seeks ‘Novel’ Parental Duty, Defendant Says

    TRENTON, N.J. — A 15-year-old victim of nonconsensual artificial intelligence pornography seeks to use New Jersey law in unintended ways and impose a “novel” and “fundamentally unfair” new duty on parents for their child’s every technological action, a boy accused of conspiring to create the deepfake images says in opposing the girl’s motion for leave to amend her complaint in federal court to add the boy’s parents and a second family as parties.

  • December 03, 2024

    Texas Attorney Sanctioned Over AI’s Use In Employment Termination Case

    BEAUMONT, Texas — An attorney who relied on artificial intelligence as the sole means to confirm citations and quotations in a brief opposing summary judgment in a wrongful termination case must pay $2,000 and attend legal training, a federal judge in Texas said in imposing sanctions including allowing the defendant to file a reply to the amended response, which it did Dec. 2.

  • December 03, 2024

    Texas AI Disclosure Rule Applies To Briefs, Not Complaints, Judge Says

    DALLAS — A court rule requiring parties to disclose the use of artificial intelligence applies only to briefing and therefore a pro se plaintiff could not have run afoul of it even if he used the technology to craft his amended complaint, a federal judge said while finding that the man’s breach of contract claim against a credit union survived a motion to dismiss.

  • November 27, 2024

    OpenAI Disputes Claim It Ruined News Plaintiffs AI Search Results

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. and various news entities that accuse it of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence briefed a federal judge in New York over whether discovery evidence was deleted or merely reformatted allowing the plaintiffs to rerun searches of the training material.

  • November 25, 2024

    Hospitals Dismiss Suit Claiming Multiplan Uses AI To Depress Reimbursements

    CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted two hospitals’ motion to voluntarily dismiss their action claiming that Multiplan Inc. and health insurers use artificial intelligence to suppress the price of out-of-network care.

  • November 22, 2024

    COMMENTARY: 2024 Key Insurance Decisions, Trends & Developments & A Look Ahead To 2025

    By Scott M. Seaman, Pedro E. Hernandez and Lisa M. Roccanova

  • November 22, 2024

    AI Rental Discrimination Case Receives Judge Approval For $1.75M Settlement

    BOSTON — A settlement providing for $1.75 million plus fees and incentives has resolved a class action alleging that an artificial intelligence-based renter scoring program discriminated against those utilizing state and federal housing vouchers and therefore Blacks and Hispanics after a federal judge in Massachusetts granted final approval of the deal.

  • November 22, 2024

    Magistrate Judge: No Due Process Issues In Student AI-Cheating Case

    BOSTON — Neither the novelty of artificial intelligence nor the way a school district handled discipline for a student who used the technology for a history project warrants a preliminary injunction reversing the punishments, a federal magistrate judge in Massachusetts said in denying a motion.

  • November 21, 2024

    DOJ, States Argue That ‘Google Must Divest Chrome’ In Sherman Act Antitrust Suit

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a federal judge overseeing the case previously determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and officials from numerous states on Nov. 20 urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to adopt their proposed final judgment, which includes requiring Google to divest web browser Chrome.

  • November 20, 2024

    Plaintiffs: Health Care Pricing Algorithm Just High-Tech Price Fixing

    CHICAGO — A consolidated amended class action filed in multidistrict litigation in an Illinois federal court claims that Multiplan Inc. and others rely on allegedly algorithmic repricing of out-of-network health claims to keep prices artificially low and that it is really just a “technological smokescreen for traditional price fixing.”