Trial & Error.
The Litigation Special. Congress is still clearing its throat; the courts are already ruling. Three waves, one docket.
Read the collectible edition — as printed ↗- the lede
All Rise.
You probably typed something into ChatGPT this year you assumed was gone. A 2 a.m. question. A draft you'd never send. A chat you deleted. It isn't gone — and nobody voted for that.
- features
They Read Everything.
Here is the plot twist nobody put on a banner: the AI labs mostly won the copyright fight. The reading was legal. The shoplifting was not.
- features
The Algorithm Said No.
You didn't get the job — a model screened the application out before a human ever saw the name. So who is the defendant: the company that didn't hire, or the software that didn't let anyone try?
- features
Is a Chatbot a Product?
Two families went to court. Their cases ask the same question, and it is not an abstract one. A court may decide that a conversation is a thing a company sells — and owes you for.
- pseuds corner
"I am not prepared to hold that Character A.I.'s output is speech."
Judge Anne Conway, declining to dismiss Garcia v. Character Technologies · 21 May 2025
- pseuds corner
"A separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions."
Air Canada, arguing its website chatbot was not the airline's responsibility · the tribunal disagreed · Moffatt v. Air Canada, 2024
- pseuds corner
"We have not decided on timing yet."
the present-perfect filer, still filing · OpenAI, on a different document · for old times' sake
- frontier circular
The Frontier Circular · №4
A palace gazette of trivial movements, recorded with the gravity they deserve.
- awards
The Jackass Trophy · №4
Numbered honours for service to the discourse. The mythology compounds.
- service
The Defendant Leaderboard
Ranked, like the Class of '15 — but by lawsuits, not lab-hops · n=5
- money
It Started at $650.88.
The first domino of the AI legal era wasn't a billion-dollar headline. It was a chatbot at Air Canada giving a man the wrong bereavement-fare rule. A tribunal made the airline pay him $650.88. Two years later, here is the tab.
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The Law, Catching Up.
Three cases nobody's covering, the docket to watch, and what Compute! actually thinks.
- the web
Who's Suing Who · №4
Everybody v. everybody. Every case below is on the record. Pull out, pin up, follow the writ.