Mealey's Artificial Intelligence

  • August 21, 2023

    Employers Settle Claims They Trained Hiring Algorithm To Exclude Older Applicants

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A trio of companies that provided English-language tutoring for individuals in China settled a case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming that the employers trained their hiring algorithm to exclude older applicants.

  • August 18, 2023

    AI Legal Application Founder Says Japanese Company Is Infringing Trademark

    SAN FRANCISCO — A Japanese company and its United States-based entity are a single enterprise that sucked up all available venture capital funding in the artificial intelligence based legal applications by using an already trademarked name, a Arizona-based intellectual property law firm told a federal judge in California in opposing a motion to dismiss California unfair competition law and other claims.

  • August 04, 2023

    COMMENTARY: Artificial Intelligence: Top 3 Legal Issues

    By Dr. Andreas Lober

  • July 27, 2023

    COMMENTARY: COVID-19, Generative AI And The “Lost Generation” Of Lawyers

    By Jennifer M. Driscoll and Linn F. Freedman

  • August 15, 2023

    Artificial Intelligence ‘Ecosystem’ Was Just A Pyramid Scheme, SEC Says

    ORLANDO, Fla. — A man lured investors with promises of early access to profits from an artificial intelligence “ecosystem,” but promised applications were never developed and the arrangement was nothing more than a multilevel marketing scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges in a complaint filed in Florida federal court.

  • August 15, 2023

    OpenAI Says Name Of Competitor ‘Transparent’ Attempt To Leverage Reputation

    SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence company OpenAI Inc. says in a complaint that a competitor adopted a nearly identical name in a “transparent” attempt to “sow consumer confusion” and trade on its hard work and reputation in the wake of the release of ChatGPT.

  • August 11, 2023

    Linguistic Literature Analysis Website Shutters Itself Citing AI Concerns

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The individual behind the Prosecraft.io website, which performs linguistic analysis of literature, announced that he was shuttering the site, citing concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) could be trained on its database.

  • August 10, 2023

    Federal Election Commission Unanimously Agrees To AI Rule Making Comments

    WASHINGTON, D.C. —  The Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Aug. 10 unanimously agreed to publish for comment in the Federal Register a petition seeking rule making that would bring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes under regulation already governing fraudulent misrepresentation in political advertising.

  • August 10, 2023

    Election Commission To Consider AI, Deepfake Political Advertising Rule

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is soliciting comments on, and is set to consider at its Aug. 10 meeting, whether it should amend the rule prohibiting fraudulent misrepresentation in political campaign advertising to include the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

  • August 09, 2023

    Judge’s Order Questions Jurisdiction Over ChatGPT Defamation Case

    ATLANTA — A federal judge in Georgia said OpenAI LLC’s notice of removal vaguely states that none of its entities reside in Georgia, which is insufficient to create diversity jurisdiction over a man’s case claiming he was defamed by artificial intelligence ChatGPT when it created a fake complaint naming him as a defendant.  In a docket entry, the court issued an order to show why the case should not be remanded.

  • August 08, 2023

    AI Merger Software Company Wants Damages For Wrongful Injunction

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — A company that developed an artificial intelligence platform designed to analyze mergers and other business pairings told a federal judge in Ohio that having prevailed in a case brought against it by a failed business partner and having been improperly damaged by an injunction, it was entitled to the entire amount of the injunction bond the plaintiff filed.

  • August 08, 2023

    State Farm: AI Claims Handling Allegations Don’t Establish Fair Housing Case

    CHICAGO — Property insurance lacks sufficient connection to the sale of a home for liability under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), an insurer tells a federal judge in Illinois in urging dismissal of claims alleging that the company employs a discriminatory artificial intelligence during the claims handling process.

  • August 07, 2023

    Intervenor Hopeful Challenges AI Bus Software Company’s ‘Recklessly’ Filed Suit

    NEW YORK — A company hoping to intervene in a business and patent dispute involving one of its subsidiaries over the ownership of an artificial intelligence bus driving system on Aug. 4 replied to an unopposed motion to intervene, raising issues regarding the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction and the choice of venue.

  • August 03, 2023

    Fake Cites Lead Texas Court To Suspect AI’s Use In Criminal Brief

    AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas court affirmed an appeal challenging the propriety of a man’s bail, noting that the “illogical” appellant brief contained citations to nonexistent cases and appeared to possibly be created with artificial intelligence.

  • August 01, 2023

    Judge Won’t Expedite Briefing In Discovery Dispute Between AI Cofounders

    SAN FRANCISCO — Although the cofounder of an artificial intelligence program adequately explains “what otherwise might appear to be an undue delay,” he has not demonstrated the need for expedited briefing on early discovery, a federal judge in California said July 31 in denying his motion.

  • August 01, 2023

    ASU Law School To Permit Artificial Intelligence Use In Applications

    TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State University will allow individuals applying to its Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law to use generative artificial intelligence in applications, according to an announcement by the school.

  • August 01, 2023

    Competitor’s Tech Infringes On Dynamic Batching Patent, AI Company Says

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A competitor touts improvement in artificial intelligences’ “throughput” and latency from “dynamic batching” — a process FriendliAI Inc. says in a complaint filed in Delaware federal court that it only recently announced and which is protected by a patent.

  • July 31, 2023

    ‘Virtually Certain’ Copyright Violations Keep AI Github Claims Alive, Class Says

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Anonymous plaintiffs defended California unfair competition law (UCL) and other claims stemming from the alleged use of licensed software posted to the Github repository to train artificial intelligence from a motion to dismiss, saying their allegations were “plausible, highly likely and indeed, virtually certain.”

  • July 31, 2023

    Pacing, Discovery At Issue In Artificial Intelligence $100 Share Sale Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — Parties to a suit claiming that the cofounder of artificial intelligence Stability AI was duped into selling billions of dollars in shares for $100 briefed the need to expedite the case, limited early discovery, with the defendant saying in a July 28 brief that the plaintiff unjustly delayed filing the case and seeks to escape federal rules.

  • July 25, 2023

    Cigna Denies Claims In Bulk Through Algorithm, California Class Action Alleges

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Health insurer Cigna Corp.’s algorithm instantly rejects hundreds of thousands of claims without ever reviewing them and with the company’s knowledge that only a miniscule percentage of claimants will ever challenge the decisions, insureds allege in a July 24 class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California alleging violation of California regulations and the state’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • July 25, 2023

    OpenAI Removes, Wants Dismissal Of ChatGPT Made-Up Lawsuit Defamation Case

    ATLANTA — After removing a case, artificial intelligence company OpenAI LLC asked a federal judge in Georgia to dismiss with prejudice the defamation case claiming that ChatGPT created a fake complaint, saying that inaccuracies are inherent in the nature of the program and that its user agreement puts responsibility for final output on the user.

  • July 24, 2023

    Study Finds Some ChatGPT Abilities Degrading Over Time

    ITHACA, N.Y. — ChatGPT’s performance of some tasks has gotten “substantially worse over time,” according to a study by three researchers published at open-access pre-print repository ArXiv on July 18.

  • July 24, 2023

    Parties To AI Image Discovery Spat Detail Dispute Over Jurisdiction

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Parties to a federal court case in Delaware filed letter briefs over a discovery dispute involving allegations that an artificial intelligence company is withholding evidence about jurisdiction and the relationship between its United Kingdom and Delaware entities that goes directly to the alter ego allegations.

  • July 19, 2023

    COMMENTARY: International Arbitration Experts Discuss The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On International Arbitration

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  • July 21, 2023

    OpenAI Removes Case Alleging ChatGPT Defamed Man With Made-Up Lawsuit

    ATLANTA — Artificial intelligence company OpenAI LLC removed to a federal court in Georgia a case claiming that its ChatGPT program created a fake complaint and told a reporter that gun-rights radio personality Mark Walters committed financial misconduct, even though Walters has no association with either party or the case.