No good deed goes unpunished?
Lego asks Murrieta Police Department to stop using company’s toy heads in mug shots
The maker of Lego toys has asked the Murrieta Police Department of Riverside County to stop using digitally added Lego heads to hide the identities of suspects in mug shots.
The request comes after the department posted a photo on social media earlier this week of suspects with their faces hidden by the yellow heads, writing that they did so to comply with a new state law.
“The Murrieta Police Department prides itself in its transparency with the community, but also honors everyone’s rights & protections as afforded by law; even suspects,” the post said.
Toward an automated lawyer?
Generative AI is changing the legal profession – future lawyers need to know how to use it
Generative AI – technology such as ChatGPT that creates content when prompted – is affecting how solicitors, judges and barristers work. It’s also likely to change the work they are being asked to do.
This means that the way lawyers are trained needs to change, too. In education, there can be a tendency to see generative AI as a threat, including as a means for students to cheat. But if lawyers are using these technologies in practice, the training of future law graduates must reflect the demands of the profession.
Lord Justice Birss, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales specialising in intellectual property law, has described using ChatGPT to write part of a judgment, in particular, to generate a summary of a particular area of law. Finding the content generated acceptable, Lord Justice Birss described ChatGPT as “jolly useful” and explained that such technologies have “real potential”.
Specific generative AI technologies have been created for lawyers. Lexis+ AI can be used to draft legal advice and communications, and provides citations that link to legal authorities.
And as the use of AI grows, so too will the advice clients seek on AI-related legal issues. Areas of law already well established – such as liability or contract law – could be complicated by AI technologies.
For example, if generative AI is used to draft a contract, lawyers will have to be versed in how this works in order to address any disputes over the contract. It might, for instance, be inaccurate or lack important terminology.
It would be even more concerning if the generative AI had been used by a legal professional and the drafted contract not checked due to an over-reliance on the accuracy of the technology.
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Canadian school boards sue social media giants for over C$4 bln in damages
Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms, and Snap, in a lawsuit, alleging that their products harmed students.
The products are "negligently designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave and learn", a joint statement by the boards said on Thursday.
That has caused learning and mental health crises in students, resulting in the schools having to invest more in support programs, they said.
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https://www.bespacific.com/using-chatgpt-for-homework-is-correlated-with-memory-loss-and-bad-grades/
Using ChatGPT for homework is correlated with memory loss and bad grades
Fast Company: “The world is all abuzz about ChatGPT and the transformative powers it offers, but a new study published in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education warns that generative AI may not be a great tool for students. Study author Muhammad Abbas, an associate professor at the FAST School of Management at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences in Pakistan, told PsyPost that his inspiration for the research was based on his experiences as a professor. “For the last year, I observed an increasing, uncritical, reliance on generative-AI tools among my students for various assignments and projects ...” The researchers first developed a scale to measure ChatGPT use. Then they surveyed 494 university students in Pakistan on how much they used ChatGPT academically, their academic performance, procrastination, and memory loss. They conducted these surveys three times at an interval of one to two weeks…”
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The Journalist Toolbox – AI. Highlights dozens of sources, applications, tools and services, as well as fact check training. Includes DeepFakes, Images and Multimedia Verification, AI search engines, Verification Handbook: How to Think About Deepfakes and Emerging Manipulation Technologies..
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