LATimes:
Court officials say judges in the pilot program are “required to review and edit the draft before adopting tentative rulings” generated by [AI software called] Learned Hand
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Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman expressed some concern with the county’s plan...warning the AI-generated tentative ruling could predispose a judge before they conduct a legal analysis.
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[The software developer] says Learned Hand has extensive guardrails to prevent the AI from inventing precedents and making other major mistakes. He said the program uses a fact-checking process called “Deep Verify,”
In other AI news:
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Meta deemed the incident a “Sev 1,” which is the second-highest level of severity in the company’s internal system)
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When platforms like Replit generate an app, they typically display it within the original app using an embedded web view. This is something Apple seems to object to")
NEW: Criminals are recruiting people to be the face of deepfake scams.
People—mostly young women—are applying for jobs as 'AI face models, where they make deepfake calls to potential scam victims.
They use face-swapping tech to appear to be someone the scam victim has previously been talking to
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— Matt Burgess (WIRED) (@mattburgess1.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 7:36 AM
if you're feeling down just right now, the absurdity of this story may bring you some cheer
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— Matthew Gault (@mjgault.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
One of the most bizarre stories I've seen in a while. THR published this writeup full of typos, errors, and fragments. Some appear to now be fixed but the original version from Apple News is wild...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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— max tani (@maxtani.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM
meanwhile, from the world of digital fascism fails:
1) Active Club mov't founder Rob Rundo posts pic of himself modelling new shirt from his brand
2) people in chat call him out for using AI
3) 30 seconds of checking shows it was made using Google AI tools, even having a SynthID digital watermark 🤦♂️
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— Michael Colborne (@colborne.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 7:19 AM
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
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— Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com) March 10, 2026 at 9:39 AM
