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November 14, 2023
Class Suit: CVS Job Applicant AI Screening Tool Is Illegal Lie Detector Test

BOSTON — CVS Health Corp. and CVS Pharmacy Inc. use an artificial intelligence-based facial and vocal scanning program during the hiring process, drawing conclusions about applicants’ enthusiasm and potential culture fit in what amounts to a lie detector test given in violation of Massachusetts law, plaintiffs allege in a federal class action.
November 14, 2023
Conversion Bid Denied, Exclusivity Terminated In Vesttoo Bankruptcy Cases

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge has denied without prejudice a U.S. trustee’s motion to convert the jointly administered Chapter 11 cases of Vesttoo Ltd. and 48 affiliates to Chapter 7 cases.
November 10, 2023
Lending Platform Says Judge Misapplied Scienter Factor, Should Fully Dismiss Suit

CINCINNATI — A day after a lending platform filed a motion asking a federal judge in Ohio to reconsider a ruling that claims made by shareholders about the platform’s use of artificial intelligence to approve loans are actionable, several investment funds filed a motion to intervene in the suit, seeking to ensure that their claims are preserved.
November 09, 2023
Federal Judge Moots Motion To Dismiss From AI Startup In SEC ‘Pyramid Scheme’ Suit

ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida dismissed as moot a motion to dismiss filed by a man who the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges lured investors with promises of early access to profits from an artificial intelligence “ecosystem” in what was nothing more than a multilevel marketing scheme after the SEC filed an amended version of its complaint.
November 08, 2023
Debtors In Vesttoo Bankruptcy Cases Note Agreement With Unsecured Creditors

WILMINGTON, Del. — In a Nov. 7 objection to conversion to Chapter 7, Chapter 11 debtors Vesttoo Ltd. and 48 affiliates tell a Delaware federal bankruptcy court that they hope to close on a sale of assets “around December 1” and “if such a sale is not possible or cannot come together in that time frame . . . will have worked with [the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors] toward a singular liquidating plan.”
November 07, 2023
Class Plaintiffs Allege AI Rental Price Setting Violates Sherman Act

SEATTLE — An artificial intelligence algorithm and related programs combine marketplace knowledge and automate rental price setting in a way that allows landlords to aggressively raise rental rates without risking claims of collusion, two plaintiffs claim in an amended class action filed in Washington federal court.
November 07, 2023
AI Company Urges Fair Use Protections, Says Copyright Law Doesn’t Need Overhaul

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC told the Copyright Office that the technology could add trillions of dollars in value to the economy but warned that a fragmented governance system would be costly and unreliable and the worst way to implement regulations.
November 02, 2023
Judge Allows Some Copyright Claims Against AI Apps

SAN FRANCISCO — Where a cartoonist alleges that her protected works were scraped from the internet and used to train artificial intelligence, her copyright claims survive motions to dismiss, but the balance of the California unfair competition law (UCL) and other claims fail, a federal judge in the state said Oct. 30 in granting leave to amend a class action.
October 30, 2023
Former Governor Launches Copyright Suit Against AIs, Training Database

NEW YORK — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and other copyright holders filed a class action against the host of the data set used to train large language models and companies whose artificial intelligences were trained on the information.
October 30, 2023
Florida: AI Doesn’t Factor Into Criminal Case; Review Unnecessary

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court should ignore a man’s “dramatic specters” of artificial intelligence’s role in criminal charges in a child pornography case because the appellate court ruling reinstating the case never mentions or addresses the issue and the petition is predicated on issues not before the court, the state says.
October 30, 2023
Executive Order Seeks To Ensure Responsible Growth, Use Of AI

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joseph Biden on Oct. 30 issued an executive order seeking to set safety and security standards for artificial intelligence and promote its responsible use in areas such as health care and climate change.
October 26, 2023
Court Remands ChatGPT Defamation Case, Finds Motion To Dismiss Moot

ATLANTA — A federal judge in Georgia said OpenAI LLC’s confession that it couldn’t support federal jurisdiction required remand of a case alleging that ChatGPT defamed a radio host and denial of its motion to dismiss as moot.
October 26, 2023
Music Publishers Seek Copyright Shelter From AI’s Industry Changes

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Leading music publishers sued Anthropic PBC, claiming that the company unlawfully trained its artificial intelligence on copyrighted lyrics from songs such as “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “Gimme Shelter” and saying that while the technology is new, copyright law remains the same old song governing how AI may use such materials.
October 25, 2023
COMMENTARY: Neurotechnology In The Workplace: A Futuristic Reality

By Jeremy Ben Merkelson, Wendy Kearns, Michael Borgia and Tanner Harris
October 20, 2023
Judge Denies Injunction In UCL Health Care Data Case Against Google

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Plaintiffs’ privacy and California unfair competition law (UCL) claims appear to turn on whether Google LLC simply acquires health information as a vendor or actually uses that data in some fashion, a federal judge said while concluding that the balance of hardships weighs against granting a motion for a preliminary injunction. In their complaint, the plaintiffs allege that Google’s own artificial intelligence suggested that Google’s collection of health data might run afoul of various laws.
October 19, 2023
Stability AI Defendants Say Remorse Over Share Sale Can’t Form Basis Of Suit

SAN FRANCISCO — A former minority stakeholder in an artificial intelligence company clearly regrets selling shares now that the company successfully pivoted to image creation, but that is no reason to haul diverse defendants into a California court, Stability AI Inc. and two other defendants tell a California federal court in urging dismissal on Oct. 16.
October 19, 2023
Google: UCL Plaintiffs Can’t Show Violations, Injury In Bard AI Chatbot Case

SAN FRANCISCO — Class action plaintiffs who complain that Google LLC trained artificial intelligence chatbot Bard on personal and copyrighted information trade “prolixity for precision,” fail to allege a privacy or property interest in material publicly posted on the internet and lack sufficient allegations that they read a privacy policy or can demonstrate an underlying statutory violation, the company says in a motion to dismiss unfair competition law (UCL), copyright and other claims filed in a California federal court.
October 18, 2023
Convicted Fugees Rapper: Attorney Crafted Closings With Artificial Intelligence

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney crafted closing arguments with an experimental artificial intelligence and then bragged about the time and effort it saved, likely because he owned an undisclosed piece of the proprietary software and despite the deficiencies in the resulting arguments, former Fugees band member Prakazrel Michel tells a federal judge in the District of Columbia in seeking a new trial after being convicted of lobbying and campaign finance violations.
October 17, 2023
Radio Host Parries ChatGPT Defamation Suit Challenges

ATLANTA — Recent Georgia Supreme Court precedent warrants finding that OpenAI LLC’s decision to register to do business in the state subjects it to jurisdiction, and the court should ignore the company’s references to material outside the complaint and deny a motion to dismiss, a man who claims that the company’s artificial intelligence defamed him says in an Oct. 16 opposition.
October 16, 2023
Draft Legislation Would Ban AI-Created Digital Replicas

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Draft legislation circulating in Congress would give individuals property rights over their likenesses and voices and ban unauthorized uses created by artificial intelligence.
October 13, 2023
Man Appeals Ruling That Copyright Can’t Protect AI Art

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A man found to have “put the cart before the horse” has appealed a holding by a District of Columbia federal judge that copyright law at its core historically requires a human creator and cannot protect art created by artificial intelligence (AI).
October 13, 2023
Judge: ChatGPT’s Definition Of Foam Not A Home Run In Softball Bat Patent Case

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Because artificial intelligence ChatGPT did not exist in 2019 when a man registered a patent “the court would be taking its eye off the ball if it applied the ChatGPT definition” of foam as used in a patent case involving softball bat designs, a federal judge in South Carolina said while denying a motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining infringement.
October 13, 2023
ChatGPT Makers Claim Writers’ Copyright Claims Inapplicable To AI Tech

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. and affiliated companies that developed the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) program filed a reply in California federal court in support of their motion to dismiss two putative class actions for copyright infringement and other claims brought by copyright holders, urging the court to reject the plaintiffs’ “erroneous” theory “that every single output of ChatGPT is a prima facie copyright infringement.”
October 13, 2023
FDA Forms Committee With Eye On Digital Health, AI Technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 11 announced the formation of an advisory committee investigating digital health technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and related advancements.
October 10, 2023
Appellee Says Fake Cites, Wrong Court Rule Suggest Artificial Intelligence Use

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A case stands ready for California appellate review after a party told the court that incorrect case cites and references to a court rule that does not exist suggest that appellants challenging a receiver’s final report drafted a brief with artificial intelligence.