Centennial Man

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Generals preparing to fight the last war…

https://www.bespacific.com/law-unlimited-welcome-to-the-re-envisioned-legal-profession/

Law Unlimited: Welcome to the re-envisioned legal profession

Via LLRX – Law Unlimited: Welcome to the re-envisioned legal profession – Will Generative AI destroy law firms? Jordan Furlong argues this may only occur if lawyers are too fixed in their ways to see the possibilities that lie beyond who we’ve always been and what we’ve always done.

Keeping up.

https://www.pogowasright.org/webinar-the-new-breed-of-state-health-privacy-laws/

Webinar – The New Breed of State Health Privacy Laws

There are so many webinars each week that I generally don’t sign up for them or post links to them, but this one really caught my eye because there have been so many recent changes at the state level.

The New Breed of State Health Privacy Laws

Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 2 PM ET

The State of Washington passed the My Health My Data (MHMD) Law, a very broad and powerful health privacy law that might be the strictest privacy law in the U.S. This law was soon followed by state health privacy laws in Nevada and Connecticut. These laws have implications far beyond health. In this webinar, Daniel Solove discusses these new laws with Mike Hintze (Hintze Law).

More information and registration form at TeachPrivacy.

Some protection but possibly not enough?

https://www.bespacific.com/authorbots/

Authorbots

Bambauer, Derek E. and Surdeanu, Mihai, Authorbots (May 9, 2023). 3 Journal of Free Speech Law (forthcoming 2023), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 23-13, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4443714 – “ChatGPT has exploded into the popular consciousness in recent months, and the hype and concerns about the program have only grown louder with the release of GPT-4, a more powerful version of the software. Its deployment, including with applications such as Microsoft Office, has raised questions about whether the developers or distributors of code that includes ChatGPT, or similar generative pre-trained transformers, could face liability for tort claims such as defamation or false light. One important potential barrier to these claims is the immunity conferred by 47 U.S.C. § 230, popularly known as “Section 230.” In this Essay, we make two claims. First, Section 230 is likely to protect the creators, distributors, and hosts of online services that include ChatGPT in many cases. Users of those services, though, may be at greater legal risk than is commonly believed. Second, ChatGPT and its ilk make the analysis of the Section 230 safe harbor more complex, both substantively and procedurally. This is likely a negative consequence for the software’s developers and hosts, since complexity in law tends to generate uncertainty, which in turn creates cost. Nonetheless, we contend that Section 230 has more of a role to play in legal questions about ChatGPT than most commentators do—including the principal legislative drafters of Section 230—and that this result is generally a desirable one.”