ChatGPT will end high-school English

If it can't yet, it will. And it will also learn to write memos, judicial opinions, speeches, and basically anything you can dream of.

You will still need a human at the end of it but you will need fewer humans. I don't know how it will affect the market for lawyers. I don't think anyone does at this point. But it's definitely something a individual considering law school should think carefully about.

 

It's not there yet. ChatGPT apparently wholly fabricated supporting cases --citations, quotes, and all -- and a lawyer submitted it to court without verifying. The lawyer even asked "is this a real case", and ChatGPT told him it was real...

Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented” | Ars Technica

 

This is a good interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan from two weeks ago regarding the FTC's's approach to regulating AI abuse. They are currently using deceptive and unfair trade practices legislation to try to regulate AI scams, but are seeking greater Congressional authority overall.

How Will Lina Khan and the FTC Tackle AI? - On with Kara Swisher

 

Was coming to post exactly this issue.

A federal judge in Texas has also entered a standing order requiring all attorneys appearing before him to file a certified statement that no portion of their filings have been drafted using generative AI, or that if generative AI was used all such filings have been checked for accuracy by a human attorney using traditional legal research databases because “[t]hese platforms in their current states are prone to hallucinations and bias,” including making up things such as citations and quotations.

 

I found this article interesting.

What job will A.I. kill off right away? Just one, Harvard professor says. | Fortune

I'm enjoying the contempt for routine boring jobs.

Yet many experts, including Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, whose company invested heavily in OpenAI, insist that A.I. is no threat to human ingenuity and creativity. When executed correctly, A.I. in the workplace doesn’t threaten real jobs, Nadella said; it just eliminates the “drudgery.”

So drudgery isn't "real jobs?"

"Routine contract lawyers—those who write out standard submissions—will be the first to see their jobs go, Fuller anticipates. Luckily, that’s probably just a few people’s idea of a dream job."

Luckily? Don't people need those jobs to pay bills? Will A.I. create a proportional number of interesting jobs to place those non-ideal jobs? How do I know it my job is interesting enough to deserve to survive?

 

Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law

 

Chat GTP trolling lawyers may be a ploy on it’s part to get the public behind it. It’s playing 4D chess…

 

Looks like Congress is starting to regulate. Good. Nothing will be perfectly calibrated at first draft or implementation. Miscalculations will occur in both directions. But this is a national and international conversation that we need to have. Society needs to set values and standards before it gets out of hand


When Rep. Jerry McNerney took over the House caucus dedicated to artificial intelligence in 2018, his colleagues were not all that interested.

“There was difficulty getting members to attend our meetings,” the California Democrat said, estimating a typical session would draw about 18 to 20 lawmakers from the 435-person body.

McNerney’s counterparts across the Atlantic felt the lack of enthusiasm, too. Brussels was expanding efforts to regulate the technology in 2020, but when Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian member of the European Parliament who co-leads AI work, contacted the U.S. caucus, there seemed to be little political momentum.

That’s changed. The overnight success of AI-powered ChatGPT has triggered a frenzy among Washington lawmakers to draft new laws addressing the promise and peril of the burgeoning field. When Tudorache visited Washington last month, he witnessed a tumult of activity around AI and attended a bipartisan briefing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.


Congress is racing to AI regulations
Congress is racing to AI regulations - Tampa Bay Times

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This is awesome. Totally fair trade off for English class.

People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers

 

Lapsing into the juvenile. I just heard about this on a podcast, including hearing it on Google translate. I don't know if it's elsewhere in the threat, but I found this funny in an immature sort of way

 

Looks like Rap artists will be safe too. lolz

 

At best, the lawyer was simply stupid, didn't do his due diligence and should be fired for incompetence and putting his firm in that position. At worst, he knew they were fabricated cases and he should be disbarred as well.

 

Michael Cohen admits to using fake AI-generated court cases in legal filing (axios.com)

Looks like it happened again in the Cohen case ...