LLRX December 2024 Articles and Columns

December 2024 – LLRX.com® – the free web journal on law, technology, knowledge discovery and research for Librarians, Lawyers, Researchers, Academics, and Journalists. Founded in 1996.

• January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924 – by Jennifer Jenkins.
• AI in Finance and Banking, December 31, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: Report on the Uses, Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Services Sector; How AI could change the work of bank CEOs; US Treasury Releases Reports on AI in Financial Services; IMF – Artificial Intelligence, Dollar, Growth, and Debt Drove 2024 Blog Readership; and OECD – Artificial Intelligence and tourism.
• Artificial Intelligence, ABA Formal Opinion 512 And Access To Justice – Jerry Lawson
• What Lawyers Need to Know About the Bluesky Social Media Platform – Catherine Reach .
• After Hurricane Helene, survivors have been in a race against time to protect family heirlooms, photographs and keepsakes – Leah Bright and Brian Michael Lione
• Yes, I am a human’: bot detection is no longer working – and just wait until AI agents come along – Welcome to the strange battle between bot detection and AI, which is set to get even more complicated in the coming years as technology continues to improve. Professors Irfan Mehmood and Kamran Mahroof describe what the future after Captcha may look like.
• 1 in 6 Congresswomen Targeted by AI-Generated Sexually Explicit Deepfakes – A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images and puts into focus the evolving risks for women in politics and public life. By Barbara Rodriguez and Jasmine Mithan.
• No flood gauges, no warning: 99% of US streams are off the radar amid rising flash flood risks – we saw the harm in 2024 – Julie Arbit, Brad Bottoms and Branko Kerkez
• Consider The Turkey: philosopher’s new book might put you off your festive bird – and that’s exactly what he would want – Benjamin Curtis
• AI in Finance and Banking, December 16, 2024 – Sabrina I. Pacifici
• Election misinformation & AI disclaimer wording – James Jordan and Joy Ruiz
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, 4 new columns