Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

[doctorbadwolf]

I'd go so far to say conceiving of LLMs as a "source" is using them improperly. You're not supposed to ask a question and read the answer as if it were a published document.

Find the part that is interesting. Ask it to expand on that. Ask for documentation with links to the primary sources. Ask if it really applies to this circumstance. Take advantage of the interactivity.

How much water and power to avoid having to read?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

On the subject of the OP, is that these cases are only reported when they are detected. How many of these incidents get through without detection? We can't say of course, but there could be many. In which case a verdict reached on hallucinated case law becomes real case law.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

The whole job? No.

But it’s a HUGE & FUNDAMENTAL part of the job,

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 course.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

How much water and power to avoid having to read?

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 on humanity and possibly have more people being able to afford access to the legal system, nurturning a world where justice and fairness is within reach for all and not just the priviledged few seems a fair use of resources.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

lessen the burden of work on humanity

If work is a "burden" that we should aim to "lessen", that would make mass unemployment the desired outcome.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

If work is a "burden" that we should aim to "lessen", that would make mass unemployment the desired outcome.

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 result of both technological progress and a collective political choice to move more toward Hunger Games than The Culture.

I'd say that if one doesn't trust the collective political will to veer away from Hunger Games, there is little chance he'd trust the political will to enforce suppression of technology.

 

[trappedslider]

not worth derailing

 

[Paul Farquhar]

enjoying 20ish years of unemployment

In my experience, a lot of people do not "enjoy" unemployment, even when is not accompanied by poverty.

technological progress

"Progress" would imply people's lives getting better. My observation, over around 40 years, is that people's lives are getting worse.

collective political choice

How so "collective"? I see the vast majority of people having very little say over anything.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

not worth derailing

Yeah, you're wise.

 

[trappedslider]

The very clear path forward is to ban generative ai and let people grow in experience by actually doing things.

bummer sucks to be them if for whatever reason they can't do something right?

EY: 85% of neurodivergent employees think generative AI creates a more inclusive workplace

UNLEASH unpicks the data from the accountancy giant, which surveyed 300 people living with disabilities and neurodivergence from across the world - how and why is generative AI, and specifically Microsoft Copilot, driving positive DEIB outcomes?

www.unleash.ai

From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

AI image synthesis is getting more capable at executing ideas, and it’s not slowing down.

arstechnica.com

"I have stage 4 cancer and aiart [sic] actually gave me reason to keep fighting it," wrote a user named bodden3113 on Reddit in December 2022. "I no longer have to wait till I'm not doing chemo to figure out how to draw hair or decide if i should even learn if i won't live long enough to see on paper what i had in mind... Why do we have to do things the same way it was always done?"

One artist, Claire Silver, has been using AI art collaboratively since 2018 and gained renown from it, becoming the first AI-augmented artist to sign with the WME talent agency. "I have a chronic, disabling illness, an experience that has galvanized my love for augmenting skill in favor of expression," she told Ars Technica in an interview. "I grew up in poverty and have changed my family’s life with my AI art."

Well Claire sucks to be you and you too user bodden

Sucks to be theses students

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096751625000235

Yeah, you're wise.

no i'm not apparently