Professor of Law, University of Arkansas. Admiralty and Maritime Law, Corporate, and M&A. Real Christmas tree enthusiast.
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We need an inverse-Pangram. It tells you what percentage of your article is substantively original (i.e., doesn't map onto existing literature, whether word-for-word OR paraphrased, whether AI generated or not).
A rare opportunity to disagree with The Hoff.
So first, he is right on all the main points, including flooding and how ugly AI slop is, &c.
But I don't love the remedy (and I suspect he isn't too excited about it either?). Pangram is measuring the wrong thing and is also gamable (less so than I thought in the past!). Still the semi lazy can just have Claude generate an article and then rewrite it using meat tokens, and the AI signature disappears without resolving any of the underlying problems. The truly lazy will use AI humanizers, but I haven't benchmarked those.
What to do? Use AI to identify works worthy of human attention! AI triage is the only robust way forward IMHO, and also, I suspect that it's being done covertly anyways.
A lot more to say but I wanted to outline this quickly
I just overheard someone in the hallway describing transactional law to a student as, "Filing documents, copying and pasting, stuff like that," and I couldn't really argue.
True Story: One time I got a law school Contracts exam that contained no capital letters, punctuation, or paragraphs.
This checks out. Delaware still faces an existential threat to its chartering business.
🚨 SOFTBANK’S OPENAI- AND NVIDIA-BACKED AI INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY LEFT DELAWARE FOR TEXAS BEFORE GOING PUBLIC.
SB Energy’s SEC registration statement reveals that its predecessor, SE Global Holdings, completed its conversion from a Delaware corporation to a Texas corporation on August 28, 2026.
Three days later, it adopted the SB Energy name.
The company is pursuing a Nasdaq IPO under SBE, with SoftBank as its controlling shareholder and OpenAI and NVIDIA as strategic investors.
Its prospectus discloses approximately $439 billion in contracted backlog and 8.8 gigawatts of contracted or under-construction data-center capacity.
The Texas reincorporation is already complete. The IPO remains separate from that completed legal move.
Many of us who read scholarly literature have noticed the that sometimes a footnote to an article contains the most interesting idea of the piece. I wonder whether the author didn't realize it at the time, or just wanted to minimize it because it didn't fit the article agenda?
Robert Anderson retweeted
Public service is hard, but clearly these guys have the chops for it.
#DadJokeCategory
Probably my greatest strength as a teacher is that students routinely come out of my classes saying they feel even more confused after listening to me than they did before.
A political candidate is just a vector in a policy space. You pick the one closest to your ideal point. Their personal attributes are mostly a distraction except insofar as they bear on their location in the policy space.
I still see teachers giving students homework assignments that count for large portions of their course grades. How do you justify this when the students can simply complete them with AI? This invites cheating and punishes honesty.
For my fellow Tombstone aficionados: I’m super jealous that my wife and kids got to meet Buck Taylor yesterday, who played Turkey Creek Jack Johnson in the movie. How does a guy look that tough at age 88? Silver Dollar City in Branson is such a treasure.
The perfect Delaware corporate law case lets the insiders get away with anything they want substantively as long as they can show a sufficiently tall stack of paperwork documenting the intricate and expensive procedural hoops they paid lawyers to jump through.
With all of the dash cameras now recording everything, it seems feasible that insurance companies could just yank insurance from pretty much all the aggressive drivers out there if they were allowed to.
That's a pretty big vertical for a guy in his 80s. Really got to Hand it to him.
In the 1950s, portrait photographer Philippe Halsman would ask his subjects to jump in the air so they would loosen up for subsequent shots. Among Halsman's subjects was Judge Learned Hand, then in his 80s. The request resulted in the photo below. smithsonianmag.com/arts-cult…
I wonder what percent of the time someone types (c) they are actually intending to type a copyright symbol. It's one of the weirdest autocorrects in Word.
