Damien Riehl

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Lawyer, technologist, educator, musician, speaker. Litigator for ~15 years, coding 1985+, web 1995+, Connected and automated vehicles. Also cybersecurity. Now AI-backed tools at Fastcase.
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/damienriehl/
TED Talk (All The Music)https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_why_all_melodies_should_be_free_for_musicians_to_use
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/damienriehl
YouTube (music)https://youtube.com/damienriehl

Here's my most-recent article, discussing a paradox — #BigTech and #LLM rise undermines #journalism and #law — and offering a lifeline: LLMs buy #GroundTruth (e.g., Journalists + Law):

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/llm-sourcing-ground-truth-facts-news-law-damien-riehl-ga76c

LLM Sourcing of Ground Truth (Facts, News, Law)

For Democracy, two institutions are foundational: Journalism. Freedom of Press in the Constitution elevate the Fourth Estate.

#Cybersecurity is the best lake reading! Especially when written by my friend Josiah Dykstra.

#MythAmerica

https://bit.ly/MythAmerica

@damienriehl @AgileAttorney I've been thinking a lot about this too. So much so I actually built a tool to help leverage LLMs to do exactly this (i.e., help structure thinking an draw out ideas from an author). See

https://ghostwriterqna.org/

The site is a sandbox for Generative Outlines — representations of a document’s structure and content designed to mediate a dialogue between a would-be author and an LLM. Generative outlines aim to maximize authorship and accuracy.

Ghost Writed QnA

Are you a Zotero user? Do you ever wish you could search your libraries by idea not keywords? What about the ability to ask questions of your texts? Then this page is for you. Download information from one of your group libraries and interact with it using a number of NLP tools.

Find My Cite

Increasingly convinced that #LLMs (e.g., #GPT), increase user (e.g., #lawyer) creativity. This upward trend will continue.

Insights from this good WIRED article:

- Much of #law (e.g., briefs, pleadings, motions, memos, contracts, advice, ideation) = boilerplate. Standard Language.

- LLMs = stochastic = boilerplate faster. Throat clearing.

- Good Lawyering = creativity (atop boilerplate)

- LLMs ⬆lawyerly #creativity.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-education-originality/

ChatGPT Is Unoriginal—and Exactly What Humans Need

The technology can help cut through buzzwordy “solutions” and serve as a shortcut for jumpstarting creativity.

WIRED

I had a great conversation with FT:
All The Music --> All The Patents

Building fun things with Mike Bommarito and team!

https://www.ft.com/content/e5755e20-0768-4035-b2da-76dca571043b

AI and patents: How machine learning can help or hinder innovation

Tech can be used to target inventions en masse — but also to protect creators

Financial Times

Thrilled that my cover story on #LLMs (e.g., #ChatGPT) is seeing the light of day. Topics:
- Potential to improve #legal practice
- Opportunities for firm #businessmodels
- Benefits of Legal LLMs (Foundational Models)
- Opportunities for #Courts + #A2J)

https://www.mnbar.org/resources/publications/bench-bar/articles/2023/05/24/we-need-to-talk-about-chatgpt

Articles

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Court: Copyright complexity + class certification = challenging ContentID conundrum, causing claimants' consternation.

YouTube wins this round.

Court's Order:
https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_District_Court/5--20-cv-04423/Schneider_et_al_v._YouTube_LLC_et_al/330/

Schneider et al v. YouTube, LLC et al, 5:20-cv-04423, No. 330 (N.D.Cal. May. 22, 2023)

In the original complaint, plaintiff pirate monitor, a british virgin islands company that owns copyrights to foreign films, alleged that youtube denied it ...

Docket Alarm

🎙️ #Copycast S1E4: All the Art

What if robots generated all the possible art? Does this generated content infringe copyrights on the earlier works created by humans? And will the works, created by humans after this point in history, be protected?

To answer these questions, we look at the story of All the Music Project with the help of @damienriehl

Tune in!

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Mhkir6r4hCh7MfN0I7NN7​
And many other platforms: https://podnews.net/podcast/iaj65

#podcast #IPlaw #legal #AIart #copyright #AI

Spotify – Web Player

Spotify

NEW SONG: The choir I direct, Schola Diffusa, interprets this Chesnokov piece, "Salvation is Created" — among his final sacred songs before the clampdown on Christianity. Our singers worldwide, including Russia, seek harmony. #VirtualChoir #WorldMusic

https://youtu.be/i-L8TLZdH3g

Salvation is Created | Schola Diffusa | Chesnokov | #virtualchoir

YouTube

In our LLM future/present:

1. Ideas = Valuable
2. *Expressions* of ideas = Commodities

Because LLMs can transform ideas (e.g., bullet points) into 1,000+ expressions.

LLMs can *reduce expressions* to easily consumed ideas (e.g., bullet points).

Ideas matter. Expressions? 🤷