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On this we agree. On this we don't.

Honestly? The job of the attorney is also to explain the ruling to his client. When Wife got the divorce filing, her attorney immediately checked the cases and found them bogus or irrelevant. For this to pass under the radar, you need: a lying and careless attorney on the plaintiff's side (who...

A combination of a bad lawyer (probably using an LLM) and a bad judge (who couldn't care less and could have been fooled by a human made invented [or misunderstood] case) let that happen. I nonetheless propose we don't ban lawyers and judges yet (though it would make justice much quicker than it...

On this I disagree. Whenever I tried to "test" an LLM with specialized knowledge in my field of expertise, I very quickly noticed the limitations. Asking for explicit link to an existing webpage supporting the claim is often enough to debunk a lot of the most egregious hallucinations. Also...

Then sure. I don't think anyone with no training should use it to replace a lawyer altogether, anymore than one should replace a doctor with a LLM when trying to get a medical diagnostic. But medical AI (not general purpose LLMs) are helping doctors right now and I think the same can happen with...

You're assuming that only really bad lawyers would use this tool (and be unable to understand its limitation) rather than every lawyer, including the good ones, who can understand the limitations and use it to increase their productivity. There is no reason to assume good professionals would...

Just to clarify, I wasn't opposing civil law to criminal law, but countries using a judicial tradition based on civil law to countries having a judicial tradition based on common law, like UK or the US, where the role of case law is indeed paramount : Civil law (legal system) - Wikipedia

The lyrics actually make some amount of sense and aren't worse that some of the human-produced slop we hear sometimes. I guess they cherry-picked the result. (Not that it would be needed. Exquisite corpse is a perfectly valid form of art).

The art wasn't the music and lyrics produced, it was the act of creating a totally virtual and bland band and have it reach such a number of listener as a reflexion on the taste of the masses. The message is more important than the result. I once attended a performance where the artists rolled...

Yeah, you're wise.

Not necessarily. Workweek reduced over the last two centuries from 80 hours with people dying at work to 35 with people retiring and enjoying (and looking forward to) 20ish years of terminal unemployment before dying, and there is no reason not to go further. Mass unemployment would be the end...

A lot, but it's not a problem. After all, we're spending lot of power and water to have an infrastructure allowing us to have our silly discussions about AI, law, and pretending to be elves that have absolutely no importance, just for fun. Spending some more to actually lessen the burden of work...

I am speaking from a civil law perspective. Precedent being much less important than in common law, it's a big part of the work of the lawyers but not as huge. I'd blame the judge for not checking it, of course, and drafting a ruling mentionning invented case is appalling in any legal system of...

Not necessarily. I was comparing the situation where you can't afford a lawyer because he needs to work, say, 100 hours on your case. Having the opportunity to go to an AI-using lawyer that will be able to spend "only" 75 hours -- 50 hours of the same task as the other lawyer because they can't...

The whole job of the lawyer isn't to check precedent. A tool that goes fast enough for situation where a small "quality insurance check" is enough to detect the 20% failure situation and save a lot of time for the all the remaining cases is a sound business proposal. Plus, that guy was probably...

A technology that multiplies one's output, even if failing sometimes, will be terribly appealing to most. Especially in countries where lawyers are expensive. When I read that people are being bullied by companies legal claims because they can't afford a lawyer or renounce their rights because...

Humans lawyers have tried to mention non-existant cases forever. I can't count the number of time when I read "Cases abound..." and wondered if I'd get even one actually referenced. Providing creative interpretation of what the actual ruling was is also quite common. Inventing false case out of...

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 38 (3 days late): Confusion At level 4, confusion has a 50% chance of depriving a creature of movement. Interestingly, most dragons lack the hover trait. Prompt: A colossal, serpentine dragon with long whiskers and copper gilded scales lies confused at...

D&D spell illlustration challenge, day 37 (4 days late): Cone of Cold. Cone of Cold, exists only because everyone and their dog is resistant to fire. Prompt: A wide cone of blue light emerge from a stone mouth engraved on a door, engulfing three adventurers mid-action. The heroes are...