In a taped deposition shown to jurors in the first federal Autopilot crash trial, a Tesla software engineer said the company did not keep records of Autopilot crashes until 2018, three years after the feature rolled out. The wrongful death suit over a 2019 Florida crash that killed a 22-year-old woman alleges overhyped Autopilot marketing caused it; Tesla's attorney says Autopilot was not engaged.
Novelist David Baldacci, who is among authors suing OpenAI and Microsoft, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing chaired by Sen. Josh Hawley that the companies acknowledged using 44 of his books without permission. A day later, Judge William Alsup granted class-action status to authors alleging Anthropic pirated their books; Anthropic said it is "exploring all avenues for review."
Researchers generated 9060 patient images with Adobe Firefly, Bing Image Generator, Meta Imagine and Midjourney and found they often failed to depict sex, age, and race and ethnicity accurately, with some showing both sexes for prostate cancer and eclampsia. White people were 87% of Adobe's patients, against 20% in pooled real-world data.
Bankruptcy Judge Michael Slade of the Northern District of Illinois found lawyer Nield and the firm Semrad violated Rule 9011 by filing a brief with fake quotations and nonexistent authority generated by AI, imposing a joint $5,500 sanction plus a required AI course. Nield said he didn't know ChatGPT could invent cases; any such lawyer, the judge wrote, "is living in a cloud."
