Meta Platforms has given its employees a preview of a series of AI tools, including ChatGPT-like chatbots planned for Messenger and WhatsApp, which can converse using different personas. While Meta has not yet rolled out any consumer-facing generative AI products, the event provided an indication of how it intends to make its own generative AI tools available to its 3.8 billion monthly users. The firm has been reorganizing its AI division and investing heavily in infrastructure after deciding it lacked the hardware and software capacity to integrate related technology into its products.
Two attorneys, Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca, are being blamed by a judge for including fictitious legal research in a court filing due to being tricked by ChatGPT. The presiding judge said he was baffled and disturbed by this occurrence and disappointed the lawyers did not act quickly to rectify the bogus legal citations when alerted of the issue by the opposing counsel and the court. The lawyers face possible sanctions over suing an airline with references to prior court cases that Schwartz thought were real but were actually compiled by the AI-powered chatbot.
Adobe is to offer its artificial intelligence tool for generating images, Firefly, to larger business customers, with financial indemnity to cover copyright issues relating to any content created using the tool. The move comes amid a rise in lawsuits concerning image data used in AI services. Adobe released a test version of Firefly earlier this year, which it says was created with legally safe image data. Companies such as Stability AI and Midjourney have all faced claims over their use of image data in AI services.
