166 | 🎯👺 AI Scammers Targeting Law Firm Job Openings?

In today’s Brainyacts:

1. AI scams with law firm job postings

2. Google Bard for long-form YouTube videos

3. AI for Private Equity funds plus other AI model news

4. Another lawyer - another fake case cited and other related content

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Lead Memo

🎯👺 AI Scammers Targeting Law Firm Job Openings?

Scrolling through Reddit as one does, I found this recent posting about a job applicant applying for a job at K&L Gates. Thankfully the applicant got wise.

Now this scam is nothing new. Generative AI advancements make them easier to pull off though. I don’t know whether this was random or if scammers target law firms for some specific reason.

Do any of you know about these things?

Note: I did reach out to my contact at K&L to let them know about this.

Be careful out there!

Spotlight

🎥 🍽️ Use Updated Bard to Dissect Long-form YouTube Videos

Do you have time to watch every video you want to? Likely not. From long videos about the Roman Empire (😅) to the latest in humanoid robotics to the recent earnings call - there is simply too much content that you want to get through and don’t have the time.

Wouldn’t it be great to have someone watch them for you and pull out all of the key insights that you care about? Why not use Google Bard? Google owns YouTube so this works really well compared to other AI models.

I made a short video showing you how. And yes, at first, my prompt did not get me what I wanted, so I show you the adjustments I made along the way.

AI Model Notables

► Metal unveils new AI assistant for financial services and private equity funds - “Metal is an AI application built for fund deal teams and managers. We accelerate a funds deal flow by reducing the effort needed to collect and parse data, perform diligence, and capture key findings.”

► Google Bard Updates

• Create images with Bard

• Bard with Gemini Pro is coming to more languages

• Double-check coming to more languages (checks generated answers against web content to flag incorrect responses)

► Google says you'll need a subscription to use Bard Advanced

► Humanoid robot startup Figure AI in funding talks with Microsoft, OpenAI

► OpenAI is building an early warning system for LLMs to be capable of assisting in biological threat creation

► Apple CEO 'incredibly excited' about generative AI coming to Apple gear later in 2024

► Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI (Clue: it’s about what you all share on Meta products like Facebook and Instagram)

► Anthropic release Dark Mode

News You Can Use:

➭ Another NY lawyer faces discipline after AI chatbot invented case citation

➭ FCC moves to criminalize most AI-generated robocalls

➭ The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom

➭ US Congress members Reps. Eshoo and Beyer, Senators Markey and Heinrich introduce legislation to investigate, measure environmental impacts of AI

➭ Volkswagen Opens AI Lab as carmakers embrace AI

➭ Congress confronts security risks as it seeks to expand Hill’s AI use

➭ Researchers at Georgia Tech just developed a new diagnostic blood test for ovarian cancer using AI and metabolic data that achieved 93% accuracy in detecting the disease

Who is the author, Josh Kubicki?

Some of you know me. Others do not. Here is a short intro. I am a lawyer, entrepreneur, and teacher. I have transformed legal practices and built multi-million dollar businesses. Not a theorist, I am an applied researcher and former Chief Strategy Officer, recognized by Fast Company and Bloomberg Law for my unique work. Through this newsletter, I offer you pragmatic insights into leveraging AI to inform and improve your daily life in legal services.