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Social media and digital spaces are the prisms through which people view the world. It is where people communicate, receive news and information, and develop beliefs of morality, ethics, and fact. Truth has become relative...more
It has been quite a challenge for all of us in the legal and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) fields to sort through the hype and potential of AI. Many lawyers and law firms dove in headfirst, excited about the potential...more
“Hey, how do we contract with a virtual influencer?” – Marketing. In-house Legal Friends: If you haven’t received this email yet, you will soon. The use of hyper-realistic virtual influencers to endorse products is no...more
You may be Entitled to Financial Compensation…for Your Data - “Without all of our writings and photos that AI companies are using to train their models, they would have nothing to sell.” Why this is important: This...more
Editors’ Note: How does ChatGPT fare in writing a law firm blog post? We asked ChatGPT to write one . . . PROMPT: Write a 500 word blog post, in the style of a law firm blog post, on ChatGPT, focusing in particular on...more
What is ChatGPT? When asked this innocuous question, ChatGPT introduces itself, more or less, as an AI assistant trained to provide information and answer questions on a wide range of topics. It stresses that it does not have...more
Your law firm’s website has a secret, secondary audience: bots! While your site visitors’ opinions matter most, naturally, search engine bots can actually have a bigger impact on the reach and ranking of your attorney...more
I am not a huge fan of using chatbots, as I never end up getting my questions fully answered. I get the efficiency of using a chatbot for simple questions, but my questions are usually not so easily resolved, so I end up...more
This week’s News of Notes includes a controversial use of facial recognition technology, stories highlighting AI’s role in both energy production and consumption, the continued use of ransomware and bots for criminal...more
We have previously blogged about the rise of computer generated imagery (CGI) influencers, which are one form of social media bots currently invading the online world. Bots are automated software that perform actions using a...more
Bumble Settles over Multistate Dating Lawsuit - Company allegedly renewed services without consent - All the Young Dudes - For a while there, online dating was beginning to look IRLish. ...more
In October 2018, California passed the Bolstering Online Transparency Act (BOT Act), which prohibits online bots from hiding their identities in order to appear as a human user. The human-like persona is used to deceive...more
On July 1, California became the first state in the country to require that “bots” reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used for certain commercial and political purposes. The law does not provide for a private...more
As previously reported on DWT’s AI Law Advisor blog, beginning on July 1, 2019, a new California law makes it unlawful for any person to use a “bot” to communicate with a person in California “online” with the intent to...more
During the 2016 election, certain Russian operatives used fake social media profiles to influence voters and also created bot accounts to add likes to and share posts across the internet. And more recently, in January 2019,...more
Businesses that use chatbots to interact with customers online may be affected by California’s new Autobot Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17940, et seq. (SB 1001), that goes into effect July 1, 2019. As the nation’s first...more
We’ve previously written about “tweet-less, picture-less,” computer-operated accounts or bots, that make one appear more popular—a.k.a. influential on social media—than one actually is. Recently, legislators and law...more
Bot or real person? – a question most online users probably don’t ask themselves when interacting online or seeing how many followers a person has on a social media platform....more
On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1001, which makes it illegal “for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead...more