Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

[dragoner]

"Meanwhile lawyers for Multi-Death Corporation say why they need slave labor at Tortoise Treblinka to run the hydraulic presses crushing orphans because those are the sweetest tears of all ..."

 

[Scribe]

"In the U.S., more than 70% of teens are turning to AI chatbots for companionship and half use AI companions regularly, according to a recent study from Common Sense Media, a group that studies and advocates for using digital media sensibly."

Considering we are really only beginning to accept that social media was a massive mistake, I mean what could go wrong?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

For some reason I am now reminded of a part of Dirk Gently novels. One of the characters in the book has a software company that got rich when they built a program that would generate plausible seeming reasonings for certain requests. The company boss used it after he had crashed his expensive sports car he bought on a loan to get a loan for another expensive sports car, but eventually, he sold the software exclusively to the US government. He noticed that from the wording of some budget request documentation and proceedings that apparently not only were various US government agencies using the software, though for some reason they were not all using the same version.

In totally unrelated news to this or AI, maybe I should apply my bank for a loan on a sports car. Haven't crashed any yet, but I gotta start somewhere?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just saw this doozy, and shared it with my Dad (an MD).

The future of medical education (now with sources)

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Somewhat taciturn by nature, he was struggling between silent disapproval and opening the floodgates to his damned up expletive reservoir.

(Restraint won out, though he did sigh through clenched teeth and shook his head.)

 

[Scribe]

Just saw this doozy, and shared it with my Dad (an MD).

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Somewhat taciturn by nature, he was struggling between silent disapproval and opening the floodgates to his damned up expletive reservoir.

(Restraint won out, though he did sigh through clenched teeth and shook his head.)

 

[jian]

Just saw this doozy, and shared it with my Dad (an MD).

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Somewhat taciturn by nature, he was struggling between silent disapproval and opening the floodgates to his damned up expletive reservoir.

(Restraint won out, though he did sigh through clenched teeth and shook his head.)

That is… mind-bogglingly terrible. From whom should the students demand a refund? Is it standard procedure for an anatomy professor to be able to demand that her students buy and use her non-peer-reviewed self-published textbook? I thought usually it was the college who sets the textbooks (which of course might be by the professor if that makes most sense), having reviewed all the options.

I see that many of her reviews from students say things like “easy A since she always asks exactly the questions she said she’d set in the exam, but her answers are incorrect so don’t take her class if you plan to actually do medicine.” Which is… a way to teach anatomy, I guess.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

From whom should the students demand a refund? Is it standard procedure for an anatomy professor to be able to demand that her students buy and use her non-peer-reviewed self-published textbook?

The refund should come from the school, which should can the prof for using manifestly flawed teaching tools.

As for the book itself?

I’ve used professors own books in college and beyond. But in each case, the books were actually accurate.

 

[GreyLord]

The refund should come from the school, which should can the prof for using manifestly flawed teaching tools.

As for the book itself?

I’ve used professors own books in college and beyond. But in each case, the books were actually accurate.

Yes. I do not like the practice, but it is very widespread.

Professors commonly have their students use a book that the Professor wrote and published.

Basically, bumping up the Professors income.

This is why some professors love to teach large undergraduate classes vs. graduate, because when you can write a book and force 1000 students to buy that book per semester, you have a much better income than if you only focus on 5-20 grad students in your particular field.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Yes, it happens -- maybe the professor wrote the best book available on a specific topic, after all -- but I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable peddling a book I'd written myself to students. I usually give them a select bibliography with pros and cons of each book, and it must feel awkward saying "well, this one is, hum, very good, because, well, I wrote it".