Another lawyer was caught using AI and not checking the output for accuracy, while a previously-reported case just got hit with sanctions.

But the explanation and Ramirez’s promise to educate himself on the use of AI wasn’t enough, and the judge chided him for not doing his research before filing. “It is abundantly clear that Mr. Ramirez did not make the requisite reasonable inquiry into the law. Had he expended even minimal effort to do so, he would have discovered that the AI-generated cases do not exist. That the AI-generated excerpts appeared valid to Mr. Ramirez does not relieve him of his duty to conduct a reasonable inquiry,” Judge Dinsmore continued, before recommending that Ramirez be sanctioned for $15,000.

Falling victim to this a year or more after the first guy made headlines for the same is just stupidity.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    “Mr. Ramirez explained that he had used AI before to assist with legal matters, such as drafting agreements, and did not know that AI was capable of generating fictitious cases and citations,” Judge Dinsmore wrote in court documents filed last week.

    Jesus Christ, y’all. It’s like Boomers trying to figure out the internet all over again. Just because AI (probably) can’t lie doesn’t mean it can’t be earnestly wrong. It’s not some magical fact machine; it’s fancy predictive text.

    It will be a truly scary time if people like Ramirez become judges one day and have forgotten how or why it’s important to check people’s sources yourself, robot or not.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Going off the math and charts that OpenAI and DeepMind both published before the AI boom which correctly guessed performance to cost ratios of ChatGPT4: we’ve reached the peak of current models. AI is bust, mate. In particular, Deepmind concluded with infinite resources the models in use would never reach accurate human language capabilities.

        You can say stuff like “they’ll just make new models, then!” but it doesn’t really work like that, the current models aren’t even new in the slightest it’s just the first time we’ve gotten people together to feed them power and data like logs into a woodchipper.