Ask an AI to come up with past decisions that support such-and-such a position, and they follow your instructions!
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* A competent and reliable dishwasher never starves. -Robert A Heinlein */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 17:12 For those interested, here is a problem that has already happened. The ChatGPT system apparently made up case law... Attys In ChatGPT Fiasco Sanctioned For 'Bad Faith' Conduct <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1691963?nl_pk=19259802-3c70-4a5b-a647-8dd625cabc30&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legalethics&utm_content=2023-06-23&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> By Ryan Boysen A New York federal judge has sanctioned two personal injury attorneys for submitting a brief written by artificial intelligence that cited nonexistent case law, finding the lawyers "abandoned their responsibilities" to check their work, and their behavior rose to "bad faith" when they then waited weeks to finally come clean about the embarrassing episode. This is just a quick post from "Legal Ethics Law360 <[email protected]>" from this AM. One has to have a subscription to get the whole article. I don't, I just get these synopses to see what is going on in the legal world (subject: Legal Ethics). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
