Extract from Doug Austin’s article “2025 State of the Industry Report is Out! Here’s How to Get it!”
This report is deep, but it’s not fake! See what I did there? 🤣 The 2025 State of the Industry Report is out! Here’s how to get it!
It seems that we’re past the honeymoon phase with generative AI and now, we gotta live with it. GenAI is our new roommate – one that starts out by showing that it can be smarter than doctors, put together terrific graphs, identify everything on our kitchen counter (more useful than it sounds) and more, but proceeds to convince us to give it our money, runs up our electric bills, and uses our own voices against us. When it frustrates us, it tells us to “breathe”; when it gets frustrated with us, it tells us to “please die” – hey, at least it’s well mannered! 😉 In other words, it’s acting more like humans all the time! 😁
2025 also marked new recognition by eDiscovery professionals everywhere that the parent-child “family” in emails and other messaging apps has become dysfunctional, with some arguing that these messages are still parents of the hyperlinked files within them that have become commonplace (calling them “modern attachments”), while others have channeled their inner Maury Povich, shouting: “You are not the father!” 😮 So far, several courts are saying that it’s too burdensome to put these families back together, leaving enough “orphans” to fill a thousand orphanages. 🥺
