Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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September 12, 2023
Class Claims OpenAI Violated UCL, Privacy Law In Training ChatGPT
SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a putative class action say artificial intelligence ChatGPT trained on private and personally identifiable information from hundreds of individuals of all ages in violation of federal and state privacy laws and the California unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 11, 2023
Judge Approves Consent Decree In Hiring Algorithm Age Discrimination Case
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York on Sept. 8 approved a consent decree resolving Equal Employment Opportunity Commission allegations that a trio of English-language tutoring companies excluded more than 200 applicants on age-related grounds by training their hiring algorithm to identify and reject older applicants.
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September 08, 2023
2nd Class Action Targets Cigna’s Alleged Use Of AI In Denying Claims
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Health insurer Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. denies claims en masse using artificial intelligence (AI) knowing that most insureds will either forgo care or not spend the time on an appeal, plaintiffs allege in a putative class action filed in Connecticut federal court.
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September 08, 2023
Panel Undoes JMOL, In Part, In ‘Rex Real Estate’ Trademark Row
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Texas wrongly concluded that a reasonable jury could not find a likelihood of confusion between a real estate company and an artificial intelligence (AI)-based real estate website both operating as “Rex Real Estate,” the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled, partially reversing and remanding a grant of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL).
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September 08, 2023
Plaintiffs Say Bank Contract Doesn’t Require Arbitrating AI Voice Privacy Claims
OAKLAND, Calif. — A provision in customers’ contracts with a bank does not require arbitration of claims alleging privacy violations against the maker of an artificial intelligence voice confirmation program used by that bank, plaintiffs tell a federal judge in California in opposing a motion to arbitrate.
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September 08, 2023
Court Reporting Service: Evidence Doesn’t Show Blackballing Of AI Creator
AUSTIN, Texas — A court reporting service told a federal judge in Texas in a reply in support of a motion to dismiss that there is no evidence that it participated in the alleged scheme to blackball the creator of an artificial intelligence speech-to-text program and the plaintiffs simply attempt to impute the alleged actions of others onto it.
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August 31, 2023
Copyright Office Seeks Comments On Way Forward With Artificial Intelligence
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Copyright Office on Aug. 30 issued a notice of inquiry seeking comments related to artificial intelligence and whether legislative or regulatory steps are necessary.
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August 31, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Task Force Created By Bar Association
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Bar Association (ABA) formed a task force to examine the impact of artificial intelligence and the potential ethical pitfalls its use might pose for lawyers, according to a press release.
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August 29, 2023
AI Companies Say ‘Fair Use’ Protects Chatbot From Copyright Holders’ Class Suit
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. and affiliated companies that developed the ChatGPT AI program on Aug. 28 moved to dismiss the bulk of two putative class actions filed against them by writers and copyright holders including comedian Sarah Silverman, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to plead copyright infringement as OpenAI never distributed “derivative works” and was allowed under “fair use” to train its chatbot with large datasets of text.
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August 28, 2023
Counsel Disqualified From Dispute Over AI-Store Company Sale
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge in California disqualified defense counsel in a case over the sale of an artificial intelligence online store front management company, saying the firm’s representation of the company before, during and after the sale disqualifies it from now representing the defendants.
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August 28, 2023
Judge Extends Restraining Order In FTC’s AI Sales Case
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge on Aug. 25 extended a temporary restraining order in a Federal Trade Commission action in a case claiming a company and various individual defendants charged up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for allegedly artificial intelligence-based online store management that never materialized the promised revenues.
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August 24, 2023
OpenAI, Radio Host Debate Where Defamation Suit Belongs
ATLANTA — A radio host who claims that he was defamed by ChatGPT when it described him to a journalist as the defendant in embezzlement case and OpenAI Inc. have both responded to an order to show cause on whether the company’s diversity jurisdiction allegations were sufficient to keep the case in federal court in Georgia.
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August 23, 2023
Plaintiff: T-Mobile Board Beholden To Parent Company Couldn’t Stop AI Data Move
WILMINGTON, Del. — A telecommunications company was helpless to prevent an “aggressive and reckless scheme” centralizing data for use in training artificial intelligence that placed the data and shareholders at risk because its board was beholden to its parent company, plaintiffs told a Delaware judge in opposing dismissal.
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August 21, 2023
Judge: Copyright Requires A Human, Can’t Protect Artificial Intelligence 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).
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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.
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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.
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August 04, 2023
COMMENTARY: Artificial Intelligence: Top 3 Legal Issues
By Dr. Andreas Lober
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July 27, 2023
COMMENTARY: COVID-19, Generative AI And The “Lost Generation” Of Lawyers
By Jennifer M. Driscoll and Linn F. Freedman
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.