The following piece was also published here on 1 Crown Office Row’s Quarterly Medical Law Review.
AI is set to transform and disrupt the way in which healthcare is delivered. The Government’s 10-year health plan for England commits the NHS to becoming “the most AI-enabled healthcare system in the world”, supported by…
The proliferation of electronic data presents both an opportunity and a challenge for legal professionals navigating the complexities of eDiscovery. The sheer volume of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) has made document review more time-intensive and costly than ever before. Traditional approaches—primarily keyword searches and linear document reviews—often fail to capture contextual nuances or detect hidden…
How can the appropriate use of AI in courts and transparency? UNESCO‘s new guidelines for AI in courts highlight three critical risks : 1) Private companies controlling judicial tools focus on profit, not fairness, 2) There are subtle manipulation opportunities through biased AI outputs and 3) There may be public and legislative pressure on…
Remember back in 2023 when everyone like me posted about the Mata v. Avianca case, which seemed to be the first (or at least, the first to earn national attention) case in which lawyers filed briefs with citations hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence. The lawyers ended up sanctioned, some of my nerd friends got a…
Editor’s Note: Eastern Europe is emerging as a quiet leader in public-sector AI transformation. While global headlines focus on U.S.-China competition, the 2025 Government AI Readiness Index from Oxford Insights reveals a deeper shift: governments moving from strategic ambition to operational deployment. Estonia’s AI Leap, Ukraine’s battlefield-driven innovation, and Albania’s AI-enabled Parliament showcase how the…
The Federal Trade Commission issued an order to reopen and set aside a 2024 final consent order involving Rytr LLC, citing a failure to satisfy the legal requirements of the FTC Act and an undue burden on artificial intelligence (AI) innovation in violation of the Trump Administration’s Artificial Intelligence Executive Order and America’s AI Action…
On December 22, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an order setting aside its 2024 final consent order against Rytr, LLC (“Rytr”) on the grounds that the facts alleged in the Rytr complaint did not violate Section 5. The Commission further found that the Rytr order did not provide any benefit to consumers and thus unduly…
In a rare course correction, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reopened and vacated its 2024 consent order against Rytr LLC, a generative AI-powered company. The unusual move reflects a significant strategic reset of how federal regulators will approach AI technology, especially when alleged harms are hypothetical rather than concrete.
In 2024, the FTC filed an administrative complaint against Rytr, a company that sold an AI-powered writing assistant service that could generate testimonials and customer reviews. The FTC alleged that the AI-powered tool could generate reviews and testimonials that were not related to the user’s actual inputs or experience, and such reviews could therefore be deceptive.
The FTC challenged the conduct as unfair under Section 5, and as providing the means and instrumentalities for others to make deceptive statements. The final consent order was entered in December 2024, and it included a categorical ban on Rytr from providing any AI-powered service dedicated to consumer reviews or testimonials. Commissioner, now chairman, Andrew Ferguson, dissented from the votes issuing the complaint and approving the settlement.
Are you old enough to remember Soviet figure skating judges in the Winter Olympics? They used to be accused all the time of putting their thumb on the scale, lowering the allegedly “objective” scoring for American skaters so as to get the results they wanted. If you recall, I reserved the same right this year…
“We do not rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.” — James Clear, Atomic Habits
Let’s be honest — most lawyers know what they should be doing to build their books of business.They’ve read the articles, attended the CLEs, maybe even hired a coach (hi ?).
But…
