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January 07, 2025
No Sanction For Pro Se Appellant’s AI Usage In Colorado Appeals Court

DENVER — A Colorado appeals court declined to impose sanctions on a pro se plaintiff who took responsibility for artificial intelligence-generated errors in his brief but warned those who would practice before it in the future that such a mistake would not be accepted going forward.
January 07, 2025
Amicus Warns Against Immunity, Lays Out Path Forward In ChatGPT Defamation Case

ATLANTA — An amicus urged a Georgia judge not to adopt the “all-or-nothing” approaches offered by the parties in an artificial intelligence defamation case and instead focus on whether OpenAI LLC could have implemented an alternative design that would have prevented the alleged violation.
January 06, 2025
Judge Stays California Deceptive Social Media Labeling Law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California overseeing four cases on Jan. 3 stayed enforcement of a recently enacted law targeting artificial intelligence-created deceptive content that requires social media companies to report, label or remove such content.
January 06, 2025
Music Publishers, Anthropic Agree To Lyric Output Injunction

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California granted a stipulated preliminary injunction in a music industry lawsuit over the use of lyrics to train artificial intelligence, requiring Anthropic PBC to keep in place existing guardrails preventing output of lyrics owned by music publishers.
January 03, 2025
9th Circuit Accepts Appeal In GitHub DMCA AI Case

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to hear an appeal in an artificial intelligence (AI) copyright case alleging that the defendants ignored or removed licenses from software published on the online repository GitHub.
January 02, 2025
Delaware Attorney General Discloses Investigation Into OpenAI Organizational Move

SAN FRANCISCO — The state of Delaware is watching and investigating OpenAI Inc.’s transition from nonprofit to for-profit entity, the state’s attorney general said in an amicus curiae brief filed with a federal court in California that is poised to rule on a request for preliminary injunction in a spat among Elon Musk, Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI over whether the latter company’s current status violates its founding purpose.
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.
November 21, 2024
COMMENTARY: Fine-Tuning Your Policy Statements For The Age Of AI

By Michael Kearney and Judy Branham
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
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.