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>Lawyers for the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based landlord submitted a brief to a lower court containing "hallucinatory" citations created by generative AI

oof. I really can't believe this. Well I can but don't want to

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Well Dusk Dozer, I got some bad news for you: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

Great link, thanks.

> While seeking to be exhaustive (982 cases identified so far),

Not sure what I was expecting, but that number is too high.

Now it says 1001!

I had a legal appointment recently to update my Will, Medical Directive, etc. The lawyer had gemini opened up on the left half of her screen and the legal docs on the right, which did not instill confidence. Every time she showed lack of confidence in an answer to a question of mine, I was extra paranoid, although I tried to make sure I wasn't going to discount her strictly for having the LLM open, as she didn't use it during our appointment, to my recollection. Nevertheless while I usually check and update these forms on a 5yr basis, I plan on doing the next one much sooner in because that appointment did not give me the assurance I wanted.

I'm glad it wasn't for anything pressing or in support of a lawsuit

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