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Digest for Thursday April 6, 2023

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Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive, esp. #LawFedi. So I created a bot, this digest, a podcast , and a newsletter to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.

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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript ^†

Today, we'll explore the legal implications of generative AI with GenLaw '23, the legal battle between two fast casual restaurant chains, and the danger of misinformation from chatbot AI.

AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript ^†

Next, from www.scribd.com: Chipotle v. Sweetgreen - Complaint
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. and CMG Pepper, LLC have filed a complaint against Sweetgreen, Inc. for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false designation of origin, and unfair competition. Chipotle and Sweetgreen are competitors in the fast casual restaurant industry, and Sweetgreen has been using Chipotle's famous CHIPOTLE® trademark to sell a product that is similar and directly competitive to Chipotle's chicken burrito bowl. Chipotle sent a written demand for Sweetgreen to cease using the CHIPOTLE® trademark and rename its product, but Sweetgreen has not responded.

Finally, from www.washingtonpost.com: What happens when ChatGPT lies about real people?
This story follows an incident of false claims by an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, against law professor Jonathan Turley. The chatbot generated a false article with Turley's name on a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone, citing a non-existent March 2018 article in The Washington Post as the source of the information. As AI chatbot software becomes more popular, the questions of who is responsible for their misinformation arises. Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, conducted a study on the issue and found that three of the five responses generated by ChatGPT appeared to be false.

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As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.

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^† Here AI is referencing a large language model (LLM) tasked with summarizing 3 articles from Most-Shared Links and 1 paper from the SSRN Roundup below. Also FWIW, LLMs are well-known bullshitters.

Most-Shared Links

Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹

1. Generative AI + Law (GenLaw) ’23 (~8 shares)
2. Suffolk's 2023 Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Conference #LITCon2023 - YouTube (~6 shares)
3. Chipotle v. Sweetgreen - Complaint | PDF | Chipotle Mexican Grill | Burrito (~6 shares)
4. LIT Con 2023: Agenda (~6 shares)
5. What happens when ChatGPT lies about real people? - The Washington Post (~6 shares)
6. Weds 4/5 - Texas Libraries, J&J ~$9b Settlement, IRS $80b, Online LSAT and Trump Indictment (~5 shares)
7. Frank founder charged with fraud over $175 million JPMorgan deal (~5 shares)
8. Welcome to the Official HERSHEY'S Online Store! | FREE 1-3 Day Delivery (~4 shares)
9. What’s Trump’s Indictment is Missing – Rolling Stone (~4 shares)
10. The People of New York v. Donald J. Trump (documents explained and questions answered) - Teri Kanefield (~4 shares)
11. Donald Trump Truth Social Founder Arrested (~4 shares)
12. Devin Nunes Sues for Libel Over "Investigators Examined Trump Media for Possible Money Laundering" Article (~4 shares)
13. Get Smart Fast on the Donald Trump Indictment (~3 shares)

¹ Yesterday doesn't include the entire day as this page is created a few hours before mindnight.

SSRN Roundup

I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.²

• Culpability in Atrocity and the Role of Complicit Observer by Haley S. Anderson
• Rescuing the Invention from the Cult of the Claim by Oskar Liivak
• Red Courts, Blue Courts by Mark A. Lemley
• The Constitutional Limits of Criminal Supervision by Eric S. Fish
• Bail at the Founding by Kellen Funk, Sandra G. Mayson

² Depending on how much folks are sharing, there could be more or less than one bundle per day, this is just the most-recent one.