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Meta’s Fact-Checking Rollback: Governance, Free Speech, and User Safety

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Halleck (2019) , the Supreme Court ruled that private entities are not state actors unless they are performing a function that has traditionally been exclusive to the government. In Manhattan Community Access Corp.

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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

Above the Law - Technology

The company told me last year that its collection of case law, legislation, journals and dockets serves over 2 million users across Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the Americas. In 2019, vLex acquired Justis Publishing Ltd. , case law and other materials. primary law.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. WellSettled.com Mines Cases for Established Principles.

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Reddit Challenges Anthropic’s Scraping to Create Generative AI Models (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Fine-Tuning with Reddit Data : In 2019, Microsoft Research developed DialoGPT, a conversational AI model fine-tuned on 147 million Reddit conversation exchanges from 2005 to 2017. Under any reasonable current interpretation of California law, the breach of contract claim should be gone. Savings.com, Inc. 2017 WL 83337 (N.D.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

LawSites

His affidavit shows how he “fact-checked” the legitimacy of the cases by returning to the source, ChatGPT and having this exchange: Lawyer: Is varghese a real case ChatGPT: Yes, Varghese v. 2019 is a real case. Upon double-checking, I found that the case Varghese v. 3d 1339 (11th Cir. 3d 1339 (11th Cir.

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How Harvey’s AI Technology is Disrupting the Legal Industry and Garnering Investments from OpenAI

CaseFox

Its flagship product is an AI-powered legal research assistant that can understand legal language and retrieve relevant case law and statutes in real time. The AI assistant can quickly analyze legal language and retrieve relevant case law and statutes in real-time, saving lawyers hours of research time.

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Private Equity Firm Acquires Majority Interest in Global Legal Research Platform vLex

LawSites

It provides access to comprehensive primary and secondary law collections from more than 100 countries. The company says it collection of case law, legislation, journals and dockets serves over 2 million users across Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the Americas.