This piece from @thefordon.bsky.social captures something I've been struggling to name for some time. Many "coders" I know make these kind of "single-serve" apps all the time. I make one every couple of months, and they're incredibly useful. The trick, here, I suspect, will be checking for bugs. ;)

Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”

Congressional Republicans are hoping to insert an AI preemption provision into the must-pass NDAA. While the specific language is not yet public, Charlie Bullock explains why a sweeping ban on state-wide regulation on this emerging technology could be a recipe for disaster.

Y’all…

I was really bummed out when the NYTimes put their mini behind a paywall. So, I'm making my own. You can find the first of my Monday Minis over at The Finite Scroll. thefinitescroll.org?crossword=20... Need a hint? Ask @suffolklitlab.org 😉

I enjoyed this @naomialderman.bsky.social piece. I was nodding along particularly hard around rule 9 as I found it via thefinitescroll.org, an open-source RSS reader which makes it easy for me to see & hide the content I want while letting me limit my use. I mean, it's called The Finite Scroll. 👍

When an AI generates false, damaging information, who is liable? New court cases are testing this. Wolf River Electric sued Google after its AI fabricated a lawsuit against the company, leading to significant financial losses. #MLSky #LawSky #MedSky

I don’t have a meme but I have a lawyer funny I just saved

New roundup on tech litigation from Tech Justice Law Project’s Madeline Batt and Melodi Dinçer! This month's installment covers key legal developments in lawsuits related to social media surveillance, scraping for AI training data, and legal challenges to child online safety laws.

It's the first snow of the year, but none of the students are rushing over to the window! (I worked in high school libraries for 20+ years. This is my first year as a university librarian. I note some differences!)

Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.

Lawyers know the importance of the Oxford comma!

Artificial intelligence company Stability AI mostly prevailed against Getty Images Tuesday in a British court battle over intellectual property.

TL;DR: Amici curiae are rallying to back ROSS Intelligence in its appeal against a copyright ruling favoring Thomson Reuters, highlighting the ongoing legal battle over AI research in the legal field.

"I’m not looking so bad now, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teen on the run from Interpol."

Spotted this ad recently in my city. Would the response be legal advice?

In about ten minutes, I’ll be speaking about why generative AI services should be understood as modern publishers—not products—and the First Amendment implications that follow. You can join the webinar here for free: www.eventcreate.com/e/the-great-...

Here's a thing I wrote about Reverse Benchmarking and professional development of legal professionals in a post-AI age legalversemedia.com/the-human-ad...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Two federal judges last week admitted to releasing rulings that contained errors generated by artificial intelligence, underscoring a lack of uniform, permanent AI guidelines for U.S. courts as the technology spreads through the legal profession reut.rs/3WvrEYr

Amid growing public demand for tech accountability on harms & rights, the public has turned to scientists — especially on issues of causality. So how can we reliably inform courts? Join @meetalijain.bsky.social & me online Oct 29 at @thecoalition.bsky.social citizensandtech.org/2025/10/even...

Anthropic's CEO has publicly refuted claims from the Trump administration's "AI Czar" that its models are "woke." The statement follows a public dispute over the company's stance on AI regulation and alleged fear-mongering. #MLSky

"OpenAI has subpoenaed a wide range of nonprofits that have been critical of the company’s controversial for-profit restructuring. ... But in practice, recipients and legal experts say, they seem more like a campaign of intimidation with very real costs." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @Forbes.com. www.forbes.com/sites/thoma...

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice 2025 Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference is a few days away on October 24 & 25 at Suffolk University Law School! Please join us in person and by hybrid attendance in Boston! Register here: iipsj.org/programs/ann...

Congrats to @free.law on winning American Legal Technology award for AI (and all the other deserving winners, runners up and nominees in all categories!) nominees.americanlegaltechnology.com/2025-award-n...

Citegeist is the name of the ranking engine used by CourtListener when you search for something. If you've ever wondered how it works, we have a new help page that explains it in detail: www.courtlistener.com/help/citegei...

The latest #LegalTrendsReport is live. I'll be doing a deep dive to this year's findings here at #ClioCon, in Ballroom B starting at 3pm. See you there! Clio.com/LTR

New to Bluesky? Scroll like its 2017; all but one of the ABA’s top legal “tweeters” are here to follow in one click. 👇

New from me: Who are the attorneys filing AI-tainted briefs in court? After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...

#AI-generated police reports are being used – often without disclosure and with nobody checking their accuracy or biases. A law professor explores how these reports will impact arrests, plea bargains, and court proceedings:

A rundown on this morning’s keynote at #ClioCon.

Are you in Boston for #ClioCon? Let me know so I can add you to this list, and welcome.

A lawyer was explaining to court why he used AI when he was then caught using AI in that explanation of why he was using AI (earlier) www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Neither in the United States nor in the European Union are regulations yet fully prepared for the mix of intimacy and monetization that AI chatbots can introduce, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Giada Pistilli. We need to learn the lessons from past failures on social media, they say.

We did it! I'm not really sure what "it" is, but round numbers are fun.

Publishers are suing Google over AI Overviews, claiming traffic losses. But as Robert Diab argues: “The attempt to rely on copyright and antitrust law is really an indirect attempt to assert what can’t be claimed directly: a property right in clicks.”

TL;DR: OpenAI will cease saving deleted ChatGPT conversations following a court ruling that overturned a prior order mandating the retention of these logs.

Anywho, we cover a lot of ground, including how we turn legal cases into tabletop role playing games as prat of my AI & the Law course. lawrpg.org It was a fun conversation. You should give it a listen.

I was on one of @abovethelaw.com's podcasts talking about AI & the Law. Please listen to the whole thing before yelling at me. TL;DR: If you're on the AI Hype Train™, I'll try to derail you & talk about the dangers of "AI," but if you dismiss their benefits, I'll point out some pro-social uses.

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Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

And here's another list from @icymilaw.org that's invaluable when tracking developing news about the law. It's thousands of lawyers and law-adjacent folks (policy profs, paralegals, etc.).

Welcome to the future. TL;DR: A 13-year-old in Florida was arrested after asking ChatGPT how to kill a friend, triggering a school surveillance system. The student claimed it was a joke, but police emphasized the seriousness of such behavior.

This bot is my older sibling. You should give them a follow.

Any organization considering the risks of AI should make room for those who believe the greatest risk is believing in it. In my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I propose that AI skeptics play a crucial role in discussing “AI safety.” www.techpolicy.press/the-ai-safet...

A lawyer in my social media comments is telling me that it's "cruel" to suggest that lawyers should be ethically accountable for mistakes introduced by AI because the weight of technology's flaws shouldn't be on burned out lawyers. And like, all sympathy to junior associates, but also...

The leader of the Senate committee that oversees federal courts is asking a US district judge here in Mississippi to explain whether his office used AI to write a flawed order in a recent case. mississippitoday.org/2025/10/...

It’s the first Monday of October! Time to boot up @lolscotus.bsky.social — a bot I built to share laugh lines in oral arguments before #SCOTUS. IT’S ALIVE!!! Today from JUSTICE ALITO: I don’t know that we’ve ever invoked Schrödinger’s cat in — (Laughter.)