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Arizona court says judge wrongly allowed AI-generated victim video buff.ly/UeHP2i4 I'm rather surprised that anybody thought it was okay to allow an AI generated video of a deceased victim as part of the sentencing considerations.

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Playing around with voice chat in #Copilot, it seems pretty clear that I'm not going to really use it at my desk very often. I can see where it's helpful for times when I can't put my eyes on a screen or my fingers on a keyboard. But honestly, it's just too chatty and slow.

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So Microsoft has made a small UX change with the way settings look in #Copilot. It's fine, but every time they change stuff like that It means that people like me have to go spend a whole bunch of time updating all of our training materials To reflect the new UX. It's not free

Well...the "Golden Age" economy just torpedoed a multi-million dollar property deal for our neighbors.

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This 19-Year-Old Founder Just Raised $10M to Build an AI Assistant You Can Wear buff.ly/wjgBud3 Any tool like this will have to be more compelling than what you could just do with a mobile app. Everybody already has a smartphone in their pocket; why are they going to buy/use your thing?

The bad news is we lost the Wonder Bread account." Is your AI tool really working for you, or are there hidden influences/incentives that are working against you.

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Bought something online and it's being delivered by some company called "UniUni" that I've never heard of. My package has now been "out for delivery" for almost 24 hours. Not impressed.

Excited to be speaking at the Washington State Bar Association's Solo & Small Firm Conference tomorrow! #WSBA

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not a big fan of their chicken strips, but our local Raising Canes does have a very clever drive thru #design where the "window" is also a door...enabling their people to walk orders right out to customers in their cars.

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LOL, yet another "reading group manager" selecting an outdated 11-year-old tech book for his "reading group". (Yes, I'm aware this is a come-on)

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently this is a problem in Wilmington, DE.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"To get to Prompt Lab, select Prompt Gallery." #sigh #UXFail

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I found myself wishing yesterday that I could use #Copilot Voice Chat with an M365 Copilot agent. Unfortunately, that still seems to be a gap.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Best Strategy to Protect Against Getting Hacked Is Surprisingly Old-School buff.ly/rgTpkJF The basics still matter, a lot. Don't use simple passwords to secure important systems. Use passkeys or multi-factor authentication whenever possible.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A simple pleasure: Finding a shop that sells York Peppermint Patties at SEATAC.

Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 Books Every Leader Should Read Before Implementing Change buff.ly/D8lca8q I think this is a good list of helpful books, but I also recognize that it's unlikely we can persuade leaders to stop change until they've read 5 books. What's your favorite book on leadership or managing through change?

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One takeaway from ChatGPT moving from custom GPTs to plugins, you lose saved starter prompts. There are certain prompts I run often with my custom GPTs; I could just click the button to launch them. Now I don't have those anymore & I have to find a way to save/access those prompts when I need them.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Copilot Notebooks are supposed to constrain their responses to info in the uploaded references. However, they will also answer based on the AI's training data. If you need to mitigate that, add a custom instruction to the Notebook, telling it to ONLY to answer based on info in the references.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Self-Checkout Was Supposed to Cut Costs. Instead, It Created a Problem Retailers Didn't Anticipate buff.ly/uUY0fDU It's hard to believe they didn't anticipate that problem since it seems obviously to be one of the top three risks I would have identified were I considering the proposal.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One thing I'm impressed with with #Copilot is that it's doing a better job of correctly utilizing styles when it drafts content in #Word. That's something some of the other AIs like Claude or ChatGPT still seem to struggle with.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why Have People Historically Quit Their Jobs? The Real Reason Comes Down to 4 Words buff.ly/KzT4UQl I want to underscore this in the AI era.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Because of some pain in my hand, I've been using dictation software more to do voice-to-text, in an effort to reduce my typing. I'm enjoying it, but I'm discovering that I'm becoming a little too dependent on it and have stopped being as careful with proofreading and editing.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not especially interested in buying prospect lists anyway, but I'm certainly not going to do it from a sketchy, fly-by-night group using throwaway email accounts. If your business is real, get a domain.

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"Everybody's going to use ChatGPT for at least 15 or 20 minutes a day, starting now." ― Ernie the attorney on getting law firms to adopt AI, Heard on The 80/20 Principle That's certainly an interesting approach to driving adoption, requiring everybody to use the tool, even for personal purposes.

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It's reassuring that Claude stops so often to ask for permission to use tools like Microsoft 365, but at the same time, those are little speed bumps that sometimes make Copilot feel more efficient.

AI detecting medical problems before they become a problem is only half the battle. Then we have to get the patient to actually take action to avoid the problems. If detecting the problem was sufficient, we wouldn't have any smokers.

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At least in the short term, some of the jobs we thought were vulnerable to AI displacement have actually grown. We'll see if that trend holds up over the medium to long term, but for now it's reassuring.

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"It's the lowest barrier and your firm is already paying a lot of money to Microsoft as opposed to going and purchasing another product." ― Why law firms choose Copilot, Heard on Legaltech Week Just having Microsoft 365 gets you a Copilot Basic license.

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"Immigrants are consumers as well as producers." ― Tara Watson on immigrants' impact on jobs and the economy Whatever your feelings about migrants, removing a large number of people from our economy, and making people afraid to go out, has consequences for shops, restaurants, gas stations...

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The rebranding of Microsoft 365 #Copilot into just Microsoft Copilot and the related combining of the consumer and enterprise experiences makes it that much more important to ensure that you are signed in with the correct account when you use Copilot.

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Obviously being on the "Do not call" list does not prevent me from getting half a dozen spam texts every week.

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How is Facebook's software this bad? You can't properly track long discussions. Invite links to private groups fail routinely. This isn't some vibe-coded, overnight thing. They've got teams of professional software developers. Is it really that hard?

Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"It wasn't Harvey, it wasn't CoCounsel, it wasn't Legora for the most part." ― Bob Ambrogi on legal professionals' AI platform usage To my mild surprise, #Copilot is actually the most commonly cited AI tool law firms are using.

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Dell running an ad for a laptop with great battery life. Me: Glancing at the Dell Precision that dies after 1 hour and 9 minute of Outlook and Teams.

Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jury is still out on how I feel about migrating custom GPTs to plugins in #ChatGPT. I've only migrated a couple so far and we'll see how it goes.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why Do People Regain Weight After Stopping GLP-1s Like Ozempic? Researchers Think They’ve Solved the Mystery buff.ly/nLS4C5m It's not clear to me why there's a mystery about this. To me it sounds like "Scientists have finally figured out why people get thirsty after they stop drinking water!"

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"If we chase progress, we will stumble across perfection from time to time." ― Rachel Shields-Williams on progress over perfection in legal data I'm a big fan of incremental improvement. Just trying to be a little bit better today than you were yesterday, and a little bit better tomorrow.

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Yes, I'm sure there's a big podcast audience who wants to hear about "The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2013." 🤣 I'm sure they're using AI to mine the deepest part of the barrel looking for prospects but seriously?

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Honored to be invited to speak at ABA TECHSHOW 2027. It's one of my favorite events of the year! #ABATECHSHOW

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wow, thanks for this blast from the past, OneDrive! There are quite a few things on my bookshelf that came from this store. #Borders

The Borders store at Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Hey legal professionals! I'm just wrapping up work on an "e-mail for legal professionals" ebook that focuses on how legal professionals can use #Outlook more efficiently. As I start to think about what my next ebooks will be, what topics would you like to see? #legaltech

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The workflow is in the mind of somebody or in a 600-page binder that collected dust." ― Rudina Seseri, Heard on Pioneers of AI There can be a lot of value in using AI to extract the details of key workflows in your firm or organization so that they can be more repeatable & maybe more efficient.

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Apparently, the way to prove that you're human after Cloudflare throws this at you eight straight times is to just close the tab in frustration. Because a bot would just keep checking the box, I suppose.

"One of my favorite tips, actually, that I started doing last year is maybe once a month, maybe more, I will reach out and connect with somebody on LinkedIn who is completely outside the legal industry, but someone I really admire." ― Erika Pagano on broadening your network

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Well, that, and never show the output of an AI to a client or the court without reviewing it first.

"I think that if this had been a mistake and they owned up to it, it would be very different." ― Joe Patrice on prosecutor sanctions If there's one thing we're learning from AI-related sanctions, it's that you're better off admitting it than trying to deceive the court about what you did.

Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"My checklist is to treat every unsolicited communication with a grain of salt, to independently validate the information, so not using the phone number or the information on like an invoice." ― Marti DeLiema on avoiding #scams