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  • November 01, 2024

    Court: No Privacy For Child Pornography Turned Up By Snapchat AI Search

    WAUKESHA, Wis. — A man lacked privacy protections for pictures discovered by an artificial intelligence that led to a detective’s search and determination that the images contained child pornography because the terms of service of the instant messaging app the man used clearly state that it conducts searches for precluded and illegal conduct, a Wisconsin appellate court said in reversing suppression of the evidence.

  • October 30, 2024

    OpenAI Opposes Discovery Of Employees’ Personal Social Media Content

    NEW YORK — Authors and writers in artificial intelligence copyright lawsuits filed against OpenAI Inc. asked a federal judge for access to employees’ personal social media accounts, saying the record shows work-related use of the accounts.  But in response, the company says that the request strays far afield from the case’s central issues, that the company has no possession of or control over the requested information and that the plaintiffs are simply employing a scorched earth discovery process.

  • October 30, 2024

    OpenAI Wants Evidence Of New York Times’ AI Damages, AI’s Positive Impact

    NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. must produce evidence of any damages from artificial intelligence, as well as its use of ChatGPT and other third-party AIs, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in New York in a letter motion seeking to compel production.  Concurrently, the companies wrapped briefing on a motion to consolidate, with the newspaper saying it doesn’t object as long as the move doesn’t delay the case, and the defendants contending that adding a third case would ensure smooth handling of all cases.

  • October 29, 2024

    Parties To Google AI Copyright Suits Stipulate To Consolidation

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Parties in two California federal class actions challenging the use of data in the training of artificial intelligence stipulated to consolidation with previously related cases in the wake of a motion asking for such relief by Google LLC and its parent Alphabet Inc.

  • October 28, 2024

    Briefing Wraps On Effort To Dismiss News Publishers’ Antitrust AI Claims

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The use of news articles for training artificial intelligence and targeted search results generated by AI do not give the publishers of newspapers an antitrust injury because the news market differs from the online search market, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. argue in an Oct. 25 reply brief in support of their motion to dismiss.  But in an opposition brief, the publishers say the case is a simple one: through its huge market share in online searches, Google can force actual news outlets to provide content for AI training free of charge and then repackage the data, acting as a de facto news publisher.

  • October 25, 2024

    Alexa AI Voice Plaintiffs Seeking Class Certification Point To Recent BIPA Ruling

    CHICAGO — A federal judge recently certified a class action after finding that finger scans fell within the definition of fingerprints and were governed by the Illinois Biometic Information Privacy Act (BIPA), plaintiffs in a federal court in Illinois challenging the capture and use of voices for training the Alexa artificial intelligence said in an unopposed motion for leave to file supplemental authority.

  • October 24, 2024

    DOJ, Google Cite ‘Impasse’ In Report On Discovery In Sherman Act Antitrust Suit

    WASHINGTON, D.C. —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) and officials from numerous states filed a joint status report along with Google LLC in a District of Columbia federal court outlining discovery issues where the DOJ says the parties are at an “impasse” in a suit in which a federal judge overseeing the case previously determined that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

  • October 24, 2024

    OpenAI Wants Evidence Of New York Times’ AI Damages, AI’s Positive Impact

    NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. must produce evidence of any damages from artificial intelligence, as well as its usage of ChatGPT and other third-party AIs, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in New York in a letter motion seeking to compel production.

  • October 23, 2024

    Woman: Character.AI Creators Strictly Liable, Negligent In Son’s Suicide

    ORLANDO, Fla. — Character.AI’s creators knowingly used sex to lure minors to the program and failed to apply appropriate guiderails for an artificial intelligence whose dangers they were uniquely aware of, leading a child to depression and, ultimately, death, his mother claims in an Oct. 22 strict product liability and negligence suit filed in Florida federal court.

  • October 22, 2024

    Parties To AI Insurance Estimate Trade Secret Battle Debate Scope Of Discovery

    CHICAGO — A vehicle insurance claims evaluation platform urged a federal judge in Illinois to compel production of discovery from an artificial intelligence company that allegedly used an alias to steal proprietary information and trade secrets.  But in response, the AI company says that having learned nothing untoward from AI training data and other evidence production, the plaintiff is now seeking to expand discovery to time periods untethered to the claims.

  • October 18, 2024

    Voter Groups, Telecom Debate Injunction Ruling In AI Robocall Case

    CONCORD, N.H. — In response to the plaintiffs’ contention that a magistrate judge improperly denied a request for a preliminary injunction in a case involving robocalls featuring the artificial intelligence-created voice of President Joseph Biden, a telecom on Oct. 17 told a New Hampshire judge that the vague and overly broad injunction would run afoul of privacy and other laws and that the plaintiffs had not suffered any demonstratable harm, let alone any injury that could be traced to it.

  • October 18, 2024

    Delaware High Court Briefed On T-Mobile AI-Program Shareholder Derivative Action

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Instances where a director acts in the interests of a parent while sitting on the board of a subsidiary require a different standard because in such cases, there would be no paper trail evidence of an effort to provide profits only for the parent, a woman leading a shareholder derivative action says in asking the Delaware Supreme Court to revive a case alleging that a parent company directed T-Mobile US Inc. to centralize data for an artificial intelligence project, leaving the latter susceptible to cyberattack.  But in an answering brief, the appellees tell the court that the woman’s appeal was full of challenges she didn’t raise below and therefore had waived and that even on the merits, she could not show that the parent company alone would have profited from the data-sharing program.

  • October 18, 2024

    Google Defendants Want Pair Of AI Copyright Suits Consolidated

    SAN FRANCISCO — Two cases challenging the data used to train artificial intelligence share sufficiently similar parties, facts and overlapping classes and should be consolidated, Google LLC and its parent Alphabet Inc. told a federal judge in California.

  • October 17, 2024

    Babylon Bee Wants AI-Election-Regulation Suit Reassigned After Injunction

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A satirical news site and attorney challenging a pair of California regulations on artificial intelligence-created election content on Oct. 16 asked for their case to be reassigned to a judge who already oversees a similar case and recently enjoined application of one of the laws.

  • October 16, 2024

    Magistrate Judge Denies Quick Review Of Student AI-Cheating Case, Sets Hearing

    BOSTON — Parents who contend that a school acted with “deliberate indifference” and placed their high school student at a “distinct disadvantage” by disciplining him for using artificial intelligence on a project had their request for expedited review of a motion for preliminary injunction denied but were given a hearing date for later in October.  The federal magistrate judge in the docket-only order set a hearing for late October, established limits on briefing the motion and a motion to dismiss and declined to seal filings in the case.

  • October 15, 2024

    AI Evidence Requires Frye Hearing, New York Surrogate Court Judge Says

    BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. — Given the inherent reliability issues of any evidence created through the use of artificial intelligence, any such use requires not only court disclosure but a Frye hearing, a New York surrogate court judge said while ruling that he could not blindly accept an expert’s AI-based damages calculations.

  • October 15, 2024

    5th Circuit: AI Real Estate Firm Forfeited Arguments On Appeal Of Trademark Suit

    NEW ORLEANS — A panel of judges in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 14 dismissed a defendant artificial intelligence-based real estate website’s appeal of a Texas federal judge’s grant of a plaintiff real estate company’s motion to dismiss its trademark claims in the wake of the defendant website’s shuttering; the panel held that the defendant website “forfeited any argument that this court has jurisdiction to hear its appeal.”

  • October 11, 2024

    Altman Fires Back At Musk In Suit Over OpenAI’s Purpose

    SAN FRANCISCO — Calling California unfair competition law (UCL) and various other claims “preposterous,” “hyperbolic” and “incoherent” and just the latest step in an “increasingly blusterous” harassment campaign, Samuel Altman and related OpenAI entities and directors fired back at a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, asking a federal judge in California to dismiss the case.

  • October 10, 2024

    ‘AI’ Isn’t License To Copy Creative Human Works, Thomson Reuters Says

    WILMINGTON, Del. —  After prevailing on California unfair competition law (UCL) antitrust counterclaims in a federal court in Delaware, a news company argues in a pair of briefs in support of summary judgment that the evidence is clear that a company knowingly copied large quantities of unique and creative copyrighted data to train its artificial intelligence and cannot claim the conduct falls under fair use or innocent infringer protections.

  • October 09, 2024

    AI Entities Want Consolidation, Tout Dramatic Overlap, ‘Complex Discovery’

    NEW YORK — Saying that pleadings will “overlap dramatically” with two previously consolidated media artificial intelligence copyright actions and that a unified process promises an efficient path forward, OpenAI entities and Microsoft Corp. urged a federal judge in New York to add a third case to the grouping.

  • October 09, 2024

    Algorithmic Casino Room Pricing Antitrust Suit Fails For Lack Of Agreement

    TRENTON, N.J. — While plaintiffs go to “rather extraordinary lengths” implying that Atlantic City casinos share data in an effort at fixing the price of hotel rooms, the defendants’ use of the same software and provision of nonpublic information to the algorithmic room-pricing system do not satisfy the requirements for a hub-and-spoke conspiracy antitrust claim, a federal judge in New Jersey said in granting a motion to dismiss.

  • October 07, 2024

    Judge Grants Injunction: Calif. AI Election Law Acts As ‘Hammer Instead Of Scalpel’

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Recently enacted California legislation imposing potential civil penalties for manipulated and deceptive artificial intelligence-generated election materials acts more like a “hammer instead of a scalpel” and likely violates constitutional speech protections, a federal judge in California said in enjoining the law.

  • October 04, 2024

    AI Vendor: ‘Unsound’ Position Dooms Rehearing In Government Contract Case

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel ruling fully addressed why its conclusion reinstating an artificial intelligence image company’s suit against the federal government did not conflict with precedent, and nothing in that ruling requires en banc rehearing, the company tells the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

  • October 02, 2024

    Judge Again Leaves Deadlines In Place In AI Company’s Sci Fi-Based Name Battle

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York overseeing a dispute between an artificial intelligence microchip provider and a health care company over the name Groq once again declined a request to extend deadlines, saying the original deadlines remain in place despite the parties’ preference not to simultaneously conduct discovery settlement negotiations.

  • October 02, 2024

    Judge: No Jurisdiction For Artist’s Class Copyright Claims Against Online Store

    NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on Oct. 1 issued an opinion confirming an August “bottom-line” order dismissing a putative class action complaint brought by an artist alleging that an e-commerce company infringed on his copyrighted work and that of many other artists, holding that the New York federal court does not have personal jurisdiction based in part on customers’ locations.