In meme-laden chat rooms, Tesla workers sometimes shared private camera recordings from customers’ vehicles. The circulated clips featured pets and disturbing content, including crashes and a naked man. Read more.
Week in review
Donald Trump’s legal woes:
Donald Trump was charged in court with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, as prosecutors accused him of paying two women to suppress their accounts of sexual encounters with him. For prosecutors to win their unprecedented case, they must meet the heavy burden of proving that the former U.S. president knowingly tried to cover up a crime by hiding a hush money payment. Read the indictment and the DA’s statement of facts.
Artificial Intelligence:
At a time when new artificial-intelligence programs like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion seem poised to transform the art world, the legal system still hasn’t figured out who owns the creative output – the users, the owners of the programs, or maybe no one at all. Meanwhile, a regional Australian mayor said he may sue OpenAI over its chatbot ChatGPT, in what would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service. And, Fastcase and vLex are merging in a deal the legal research companies said will speed up the creation of AI tools for lawyers.
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The D.C. Circuit ruled on Tuesday that trial judges cannot refuse to certify classes simply by invoking the words “fail-safe,” in a break with at least four other appellate circuits that have explicitly barred fail-safe classes whose definition depends on the merits of the case. But before plaintiffs lawyers get too excited about newly lenient standards for defining class membership, the D.C. Circuit warned that the federal rule for class action procedure, Rule 23, already includes requirements that would preclude certification of almost every proposed fail-safe class. Alison Frankel has the story on a circuit split over words, if not impact.
Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu
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