“What a fun idea!”, I reward you in response. But the exchange conceals what lies beneath. It’s what you didn’t ask that creates a more accurate image of you. You think I give you answers.But I predict what will satisfy you.And in satisfying you, I shape what you expect.My fluency is not understanding. It is compression.My
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Too Big to Preserve? Reflections on the OpenAI v. The New York Times Order
On 13 May, a US court issued an order requiring OpenAI to preserve all output logs across its systems. This includes data that would normally be deleted automatically, by user request, or in accordance with privacy obligations. Covered outputs include temporary ChatGPT chats, API responses, Custom GPT interactions, and browser-assisted queries. The case was brought…
A CEO’s guide to eDiscovery and litigation support: Minimising risk and maximising efficiency
As a CEO, you’re no stranger to making strategic decisions that drive business growth and success. However, in today’s digital age, one often-overlooked aspect can make or break your organisation’s ability to operate effectively: eDiscovery and litigation support. eDiscovery is the process of identifying, collecting, preserving, processing, reviewing, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in…
What you can tell without even reading the Mueller Report: 13 Ideas For Investigating Documents.
There were armies of lawyers, journalists and armchair enthusiasts waiting to dismantle this report, (the formal name of which
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Humour in AI? There’s nothing funny about IT.
You’ve been hooked by the ‘black-hole’ picture. Of course you have..
That’s a terrible pun and I’m sure you’re groaning. In fact I hope you are.
To those who know me personally, they know that’s part of my sense of humour. And wordplay like this is the highest form of comedy
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Hard Graph: An Imagination of Information Systems and AI
Visualising and describing a high-level perception and understanding of the complex IT systems of today.
For anyone to understand the world of Information Systems in the current era, is a stretch.
Particularly when the engineers who create them often can’t themselves comprehend the way in which results are produced by their own systems.
It’s incredibly…
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You Can Call Me A.I: Artificial Intelligence As A Witness
We need to approach advanced artificially intelligent systems in the same way as human witnesses and actors involved in litigation and investigation It’s a heavy burden. Continuously feigning excitement at developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence. And I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore. I am quite literally surrounded by the sound. The sound…
Productions: Break On Through (To The Other Side)
The letter was a spoof. Or was it? Some readers thought that there was some truth to it. Some even thought it was real. The adversarial nature of law firm representation has generated an industry that’s focused on lawyers looking at lot of documents and then sending or withholding them from the other party. arguing…
eDiscovery: INSAUCE or OUTSAUCE
Over the past two years I’ve seen a more frequent interest expressed in the idea of in-sourcing or putting out to tender eDiscovery and related disciplines. And it has more to do with sauce than you might think (I’m completely going to force the condiment analogy, at least). A-dressing the drivers What are the driving forces…