

The company announced today that it’s launching “My AI,” a new chatbot running the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT technology that it has customized for its users. Holley filed a formal complaint against Newman, who then filed a formal complaint against Holley Newman was found responsible in the investigation against him, and appealed the decision, per his lawsuit.Snapchat is the latest company to get in on the AI frenzy. Another administrator, who wasn't named as a defendant, said "all Newman's difficulties with classmates sprang from the fact that Newman said offensive things," according to his lawsuit.Īfter Newman repeatedly emailed the entire law school student body using the school listserv after being reprimanded by the administration for doing so, Holley informed him that his Howard email was suspended and he would face code of conduct charges, according to the lawsuit. In August 2021, Newman was told his academic scholarship had been revoked, which he contested to administrators saying that his poor performance "resulted directly from mental anguish caused by a hostile educational environment arising from racial discrimination which administrators knowingly allowed."ĭean Danielle Holley, a defendant in the lawsuit, replied that Newman was not a victim of racial discrimination, according to the lawsuit.

In the email, according to the lawsuit, Newman attached an exchange from the GroupMe chat wherein a "classmate had ridiculed him, dubbed him 'Mayo king,' and posted an image of a jar of mayonnaise (a pejorative epithet for Caucasians)."


Newman also wrote to Howard University President Wayne Frederick asking for help "to address racial discrimination" and seeking "reassurance that my status as a Caucasian student is equal to that of my African-American colleagues," according to his lawsuit. Newman said administrators told him he was 'wasting university resources' with his complaints He was removed from a class-wide GroupMe conversation after his peers discovered a tweet of Newman's in which he posted a historic photo of a whipped slave with the comment: "But we don't know what he did before the picture was taken!" Newman said his "point was ironic," but his tweet was not well-received by his peers or Howard administrators, according to the lawsuit. Students on the receiving end of Newman's letter called it a "manifesto" and said he exhibited "objectively racist, sexist, and overall problematic behavior," according to Newman's lawsuit.
