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 †
Welcome to today's top stories! Tesla is under fire after reports that employees were sharing recordings of customers' cars, Australian mayor Brian Hood is considering taking legal action against OpenAI for false claims, and Idaho Governor Little has vetoed a controversial library bill.
~ show summaries ~
† 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
- Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor — ProPublica (~23 shares)
- Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars | Reuters (~6 shares)
- Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content | Reuters (~6 shares)
- Thurs 4/6 - chipotle isn't Chipotle, eFile.com is Malware, Legal fee Disputes and Biometrics in the Labor Realm. (~4 shares)
- Little vetoes controversial library bill (~4 shares)
- Monell Doctrine: How the Supreme Court Let Cities Off the Hook For Police Violence (~4 shares)
- Attorneys could face disbarment for noncompetes under California bill | Legal Dive (~3 shares)
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings (~3 shares)
- Why journalists can't quit Twitter - by Casey Newton (~3 shares)
- Our approach to AI safety (~3 shares)
- Redirecting to https://gsas.harvard.edu/caslogin?destination=/news/homing-new-standard-care (~3 shares)
- Lawsuits target ‘extortionate’ phone calls, commissary items in California jails - Los Angeles Times (~3 shares)
- NCLA Challenges IG Committee’s Structure and Illegal Interference with Inspector General Operations - New Civil Liberties Alliance (~3 shares)
- Unleash the deep sea robots? A quandary as EV makers hunt for metals - The Washington Post (~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.
Traffic
Of course, these insights are all thanks to a community of users, namely the folks I follow over at @icymi_law@esq.social. For fun, here's a look at their posting traffic yesterday. I like trying to create stories about the daily ups and downs. What is that bump? ;)
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