Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Slop and Breach of Confidentiality
Published yesterday: Where Does the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Stand on Machine-Generated Legal Documents and Copy-pasting One Client's Lawsuit to Start Another (for American Serial Strangler)?
Two days earlier: Another New Low for Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA): Authorising Slop Disguised as "Legal Advice"
Hours ago: AI and client confidentiality: the next regulatory faultline
So this new piece correctly points out that slop isn't compatible with fundamental safeguards in the legal profession. Quoting Eleonora Dimitrova: "The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) code of conduct is unambiguous. The duty to protect confidential information is fundamental, strict and continuous. It is not diluted by efficiency pressures or the allure of new technology. But solicitors are now routinely using tools that process data through opaque, proprietary models operated by third-party providers. The tension between these two realities is becoming harder to ignore."
They should absolutely not ignore this.
In the EPO, set aside data protection violations, some corpus of legal decisions (from judges) now comes from private corporations like Microsoft in another continent, so in effect Microsoft is writing decisions in "the shadows" regarding companies it is competing against. The Register MS is being persuaded and paid to promote this lunacy. Microsoft, a law-breaking company, wants to control the laws (writing them and writing decisions, too!).
This issue isn't limited to Microsoft.
Thankfully, based on what we got told yesterday (privately), the EPO seems to be imploding. This cannot go on like this for much longer. █