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Private social media posts may bind employers: 9th Circuit
Hostile workplace environments may not only be confined to physical space, according to a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
California’s 9th Circuit, which is a leading U.S. court on social media decisions, recently held that private social media messages on a platform for employees might generate a hostile wor ... (full story)
DOJ compliance guidelines updated to include emerging tech
The US Department of Justice has recently updated its corporate legal (criminal/fraud) compliance guidelines to include various emerging technologies, including AI.
Any lawyer who represents a corporation should probably take a look.
The document is a revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (the “Updated E ... (full story)
Federal regulators use old laws for new AI tech
AI fakes are dominating the internet and warping the political, social and economic conversation while governments seem unable to stop them.
While the states, and particularly California, are looking at passing new legislation to try to curtail the negative sides of AI, the federal agencies that have to police AI are announcing ... (full story)
Chat GPT continues to mess up in courtrooms
Really? This guy passed the bar?
Yet another ChatGPT legal hallucination disaster has happened in yet another courtroom—although this one is something less than just randomly making up cases that don’t exist.
(Thanks to the great “Above the Law” for pointing out all this juicy stuff).
In this case ... (full story)
Are music and art NFTs securities? Inquiring minds want to know
Is selling a work of art or a song a securities offering?
A musician and a conceptual artist/law professor have filed a suit against the SEC seeking a declaratory judgment that their upcoming NFT offerings will not constitute securities offerings.
And let the fun commence. NFTs, which stands for “non-fungible tokens,&r ... (full story)