from the check-your-work dept

A few weeks ago we wrote about how the lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft in the massive multi-district litigation (MDL) against the companies over how they trained their AI had called for the exclusion of an expert witness report after it was revealed that lawyers for the plaintiffs had apparently surreptitiously paid for the report, and then tried to sneak it into evidence past the deadline for expert reports via a different expert who admitted he wasn’t familiar with the details of how the report was put together.

There are so many filings in this case (currently over 2,100) that it’s difficult to keep up with them all, but around the same time as they called out that expert’s report, they also tried to disqualify a number of other experts put forth by the plaintiffs. Trying to disqualify experts isn’t that big a deal, it happens all the time.…