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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FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); (2) law.builders (legal tech et al.); and (3) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to the news! In today's top stories, a Manhattan judge is ordering a lawyer to show cause why he should not be sanctioned for using artificial intelligence software in a court filing. The judge has set a hearing for June 8th to determine if sanctions will be imposed. We include links to an article about the case as well as primary documents.
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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
- Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 1:22-cv-01461 – CourtListener.com (~12 shares)
- Order to Show Cause – #31 in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-01461) – CourtListener.com (~5 shares)
- US Commerce Dept: CSA and MSA GDP 2021 - SkyscraperPage Forum (~4 shares)
- Reefer Man : Cab Calloway & His Orch. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (~4 shares)
- Opinion | How the Internet Shrank Musk and DeSantis - The New York Times (~4 shares)
- Reply Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion – #24 in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-01461) – CourtListener.com (~3 shares)
- Boy & Bear Concert Setlist at Queen Street Mall Main Stage, Brisbane on May 26, 2023 | setlist.fm (~3 shares)
- A Man Sued Avianca Airline. His Lawyer Used ChatGPT. - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- Motion for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply – #26 in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-01461) – CourtListener.com (~3 shares)
- Order – #25 in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-01461) – CourtListener.com (~3 shares)
- Twitter Cut Key Software Before DeSantis Audio Glitch — The Information (~3 shares)
- Order – #27 in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-01461) – CourtListener.com (~3 shares)
- Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 1:22-cv-01461 – CourtListener.com (~3 shares)
- DeSantis Rule Shields Musk's SpaceX From Liability DeSantis Rule Shields Musk's SpaceX From Liability (~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
- How the Blockchain Undermined Digital Ownership by Aaron Perzanowski
- Superstar CEOs and Corporate Law by Assaf Hamdani, Kobi Kastiel
- ChatGPT and Intermediary Liability: Why Section 230 Does Not and Should Not Protect Generative Algorithms by Hasala Ariyaratne
- What 21st-Century Free Speech Law Means for Securities Regulation by Helen L. Norton
- Land Reform in the Fifth World by Jessica A. Shoemaker
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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