Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen says AI created fake cases in court filing
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Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
And by "weird" I mean terrifying, because you know if it happened twice, it happens all the time, and if it happens with lawyers, it happens with doctors, engineers, and any other profession where people want to cut costs on getting technical documents.
We are well and truly fucked as a species.
ChatGPT currently has this message in small text below the message prompt, but I'm not sure how long it has been there: "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information."
But I think that message is kind of underplaying it. The fact that it can make mistakes doesn't necessarily mean that the average person will think it is completely making something up.
I see you too are a man of culture. :)
I don’t think you really need to try to regulate ChatGPT. You just keep the status quo where the lawyer submitting is responsible for everything, and they get sanctioned and maybe lose their license if they submit bs to the court.
Treat it as a tool that the person using is responsible for.
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Lawyers are a regulated group, so the numbers involved are tractable. The punishment also has teeth since you need a law license to practice law. We don’t explicitly regulate hammer use, but make the user of the hammer responsible for how they used it and what they did with it.
Courts seek to regulate ChatGPT’s use, not ChatGPT per se. This could be as simple as clarifying that attorneys are responsible for LLMs’ mistakes. It’s probably also helpful to flag the sections generated by an LLM.