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So you could upload pictures of a relative, and it will generate their portrait as if painted by Picasso, Van Gogh or Rembrandt. Harmless fun. That is, until a well-known living American artist shows up at the lawyer’s office complaining of a huge drop in sales since the release of these AI tools and that six of the top 10 Google searches for her work are now AI-generated images in the style of her work. Authors may feel it is inappropriate that the online versions of their books were used to train the AI. There have already been suits filed by creators claiming the AI training violates their rights. A recent Digital Edge podcast, “Generative AI and Copyright: Collision is Inevitable,” 18 featured Vedia Jones-Richardson, a princi pal with Olive & Olive PA, a North Carolina-based intellectual property law firm, where she leads the trade mark and copyright practice group. CONCLUSION ChatGPT and other LLM (large language model) AIs are easy and fun to use. That is how they became so popular so quickly. Despite some lawyers’ well-reported stumbles with initial uses of ChatGPT, most lawyers will use AI tools because they are powerful and accomplish tasks in minutes that would take a human hours or days. Now we are at the “good time to experiment” stage. It is time to give some of these tools a try. And if we haven’t provided you with enough reading material in this column, let’s close by direct ing you to a post from author and legal futurist Richard Susskind, who is well known for his obser vations on the future of law prac tices and the legal system, “AI in the law - six thoughts.” 19

On one level, prompts are very simple. Just ask the AI a question. But learning how to use prompts effectively is something that requires a great deal of research and some trial and error. If you are worried about the impact of AI on your future, invest some time in learning how to do prompts on your preferred tool well. According to the Prompt Engineering Guide , 15 elements of a prompt may contain any of the following elements: Instruction – A specific task or instruction you want the model to perform Context – External informa tion or additional context that can steer the model to better responses Input Data – The input or question that we are inter ested to find a response for Output Indicator – The type or format of the output In addition, your attention is directed to “Basics of Prompting,” 16 also from the Prompt Engineering Guide site. This resource is well written with very basic language. For a deep dive into prompt engineering, see the primer from aman.ai . 17 Dozens of sim ilar resources are available online. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES It is worthwhile to note that ChatGPT and other generative AI tools present many intellectual property issues. If you create some thing useful with AI, can it be copy righted? According to the courts and the U.S. Copyright Office, the answer is no. But you can modify the AI-created content sufficiently to claim it as your own and copyright it. That sounds like there will be many factual questions involved. One entertaining AI activity is to create images for entertainment.

Authors’ Note: Thanks to Catherine Reach, director of the Center for Practice Management at the North Carolina Bar Association, for her contributions to this column. Mr. Calloway is the OBA Management Assistance Program director. Need a quick answer to a tech problem or help solving a management dilemma? Contact him at 405-416-7008, 800-522-8060 or jimc@okbar.org. It’s a free member benefit. Ms. Bays is the OBA practice management advisor, aiding attorneys in using technology and other tools to efficiently manage their offices.

ENDNOTES

1. https://bit.ly/47x6ayu. 2. https://bit.ly/3qxB4pW (this link will likely only be active for a few months). 3. www.claude.ai.

4. https://myactivity.google.com. 5. www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing. 6. https://bit.ly/3KJ6AIl. 7. https://bit.ly/3qzw04w. 8. https://bit.ly/3QFnprC. 9. https://bit.ly/3KGmiEc. 10. https://openai.com/dall-e-2. 11. https://bit.ly/3sc2GBv. 12. www.copy.ai.

13. https://bit.ly/3ytKV0p. 14. https://bit.ly/3YzW7EQ. 15. https://bit.ly/3QIXIGv. 16. https://bit.ly/448XYBJ. 17. https://bit.ly/3OAnDh0. 18. https://bit.ly/3shl0ce. 19. https://bit.ly/470ufhd.

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