The Frontier Circular · №4
A palace gazette of trivial movements, recorded with the gravity they deserve.
- Mr Musk asked a federal court for $134 billion and left with a dismissal. An advisory jury took under two hours to find his claims time-barred; Judge Gonzalez Rogers agreed. He is appealing. The judge has indicated she is prepared to dismiss the appeal “on the spot.”
- The lawyers, plural, whose AI hallucinated the case citations they then filed — in an actual AI lawsuit — have been a growth industry. Sanctions, where imposed, were also real.
- Mr Altman’s OpenAI — henceforth, in these pages, the defendant-in-chief — is now the most-sued company in artificial intelligence, and it is not close. Copyright, privacy, and wrongful death, on three different floors of the same courthouse.
- The corkboard has, this issue, been re-strung for litigants. Solid red: filed suit. Dashed red: settled, now licensing. We swapped the lovers for the lawyers. The pins did not move much.
- Reddit is not on the string map. Reddit licensed to everyone and took the cheque. We note this without further comment, which is itself a comment.