Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Month: February 2025

Judge Chhabria issues order in Kadrey v. Meta: Meta’s discovery lapse to be discussed at motion to dismiss hearing on Feb. 27

In a short oral order, Judge Chhabria instructed: “The parties should be prepared to discuss Meta’s inadvertent document sequestration at the February 27 hearing on Meta’s motion to dismiss.” At least for the time being, this short order seems a victory for Meta. The plaintiffs were seeking a lot more: “(1) order Meta to produce…
Read more: Judge Chhabria issues order in Kadrey v. Meta: Meta’s discovery lapse to be discussed at motion to dismiss hearing on Feb. 27
Meta outside lawyers update Judge Chhabria on 18,000 Meta documents belatedly discovered

Meta’s outside attorneys just filed a letter to update Judge Chhabria about the contents of the 18,000 Meta documents that had been inadvertently sequestered by Lighthouse, its e-discovery vendor. Here’s what the attorneys say: ● Approximately 3,200 of these documents were previously produced to Plaintiffs. Therefore, they need no further review or processing, as they…
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Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s day of reckoning: Kadrey, represented by Boies law firm, blasts Meta for falsities & discovery abuses. Will court lay the hammer down on Meta?

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg’s day of reckoning will likely be this week. That’s when Judge Chhabria is expected to decide not only (1) whether the crime-fraud exception applies to 63 Meta documents warranting the loss of confidentiality in Meta’s attorney-client communications, but also (2) what to do about Meta’s admission on late Friday that it…
Read more: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s day of reckoning: Kadrey, represented by Boies law firm, blasts Meta for falsities & discovery abuses. Will court lay the hammer down on Meta?
Millette plaintiffs don’t oppose dismissal of their state law claims v. OpenAI

The Millette plaintiffs, creators of YouTube videos, waved the white flag on their state law claims against OpenAI. Instead of opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the First Amended Complaint, they do not oppose. Unclear whether the plaintiffs had intended to use the state law claims as a Trojan horse in effect. The only claims they…
Read more: Millette plaintiffs don’t oppose dismissal of their state law claims v. OpenAI
Motion to compel suit to depose nonparties Benjamin Mann, Dario Amodei is now related case to In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation

Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has deemed the Authors Guild’ suit to compel the nonparties Benjamin Man and Dario Amodei, both co-founders of Anthropic, is a related case to the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation over which she presides. More on the wranglings over the deposition from TechCrunch.
Read more: Motion to compel suit to depose nonparties Benjamin Mann, Dario Amodei is now related case to In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation
Leovy, Zhang plaintiffs file opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss, motion to strike class allegations

The plaintiffs in the In re Google Generative AI consolidated litigation filed their opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss. They also filed oppositions to Google’s related motion for judicial notice and motion to strike the class allegations.
Read more: Leovy, Zhang plaintiffs file opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss, motion to strike class allegations
Deutsche Bank: China is eating the world. “We think 2025 is the year the investing world realises China is outcompeting the rest of the world.”

According to a news article from the South China Morning Post, republished by Yahoo! Finance: “We think 2025 is the year the investing world realises China is outcompeting the rest of the world,” Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday in a report titled “China Eats the World“, seen by the Post. By the end of 2024,…
Read more: Deutsche Bank: China is eating the world. “We think 2025 is the year the investing world realises China is outcompeting the rest of the world.”
Meta, Mark Zuckerberg face moment of truth in AI copyright suit: Do Meta documents show evidence of criminal copyright infringement in which Meta attorneys played a role?

Meta’s outside attorneys submitted to Judge Chhabria 63 documents for his in-camera review. Earlier this week, Judge Chhabria ruled that the Kadrey plaintiffs made a prima facie showing that Meta attorneys may have played a role in possible criminal copyright infringement under Section 506(a)(1) of the Copyright Act. The Judge ordered Meta to submit to…
Read more: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg face moment of truth in AI copyright suit: Do Meta documents show evidence of criminal copyright infringement in which Meta attorneys played a role?
From bad to worse: Meta belatedly finds 18,000 Meta documents missed in its discovery review. Oh boy.

Oh boy. Meta just found 18,000 Meta documents that it hasn’t reviewed yet in response to the Kadrey plaintiffs’ discovery requests. Meta blames its “e-discovery vendor” that apparently conducted its review. Meta discovered this gaping lapse in its vendor’s e-discovery review in the course of preparing the attorney-client communications it must submit to Judge Chhabria…
Read more: From bad to worse: Meta belatedly finds 18,000 Meta documents missed in its discovery review. Oh boy.
Evidence of Meta’s use of LibGen dataset and seeding torrents to share files. Wanted to compete with OpenAI and Mistral.

We are compiling some of the publicly released exhibits by the Kadrey plaintiffs (to PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM NON-DISPOSITIVE PRETRIAL ORDER OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE, see DI 417). Email: Request for decision: LibGen Escalation OneLLM [Exhibit B to Pritt Declaration] First up is this email regarding the decision to use LibGen and why. Sony Theakanath…
Read more: Evidence of Meta’s use of LibGen dataset and seeding torrents to share files. Wanted to compete with OpenAI and Mistral.