ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022, and is quickly gaining attention as an AI-based chat platform that responds to natural language inputs. ChatGPT opens AI up to nearly everyone to use by using a simple chat-based format. GPT stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer, and it was designed to simulate a conversational format based on chat
Fundamentally, the work environment has not changed much over the last 100 years, and I believe we are on the verge of major changes and disruptions. These changes are deeper than the issues that COVID raised. Even if remote work is here to stay, this development does not impact many industries, such as the service
I was fortunate to speak on a panel earlier this week on the “State of the Union: Exploring 2019 Labor Challenges” at the Financial Leadership Exchange for foodservice CFO’s and financial executives in Sun Valley, ID. As part of the exchange, and the panel I was on, there were a few overriding issues that were
Here are five employment law and non-employment law issues that had my attention this week:
1. Will the future workforce be paid daily?
The Wall Street Journal’s article, “The Wait for Payday Doesn’t Have to Be So Long” raises some interesting issues about efforts to lower the time it takes for employees to
If there is a turning point for the esports industry, if it has not already occurred, it occurred this week. A lawsuit filed last Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Turner Tenney, a 21-year old gamer known as Tfue, against Faze Clan, his gaming organization. The lawsuit is an attempt by Tfue to void
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I just updated my Facebook settings to prohibit the software company from conducting facial recognition scans on my photos today due to a notification from Facebook that its software would be analyzing my likeness to automatically recognize me in photos posted on Facebook. This was a coincidence because today I spoke at the American Bar
While the information posted on the Internet on social networking sites is usually public for everyone to see, employers need to be aware of potential claims for using this information in the employment context. The law, as usual, cannot keep up with the fast-moving technology and change social media sites, so there are many uncertainties
Employee document storage and retention policies: it is not cutting edge legal theory or management philosophy, but companies that think about and actively develop a plan will save large amounts of money. The costs savings will come from being able to better defend litigation because the key documents were maintained, and it will come in
For good or bad, the use of AI is already prevalent and its potential uses are expanding quickly, including to the workplace. LinkedIn is currently suing a competitor, hiQ Labs, for use of information “scraped” from the social network’s site and used for AI analysis. hiQ uses the information gleaned from LinkedIn to predict