"I felt ... my efficiency ... could be exponentially augmented to the benefit of my clients by expediting the time-intensive research portion of drafting."
KRDO (Quinn Ritzdorf) reports the lawyer "thought he was filing a motion with cited cases that would favor his client's argument, only to find out many of the cases were made up by Artificial Intelligence software ChatGPT." The lawyer said that "it was the first motion to set aside a summary judgment he had ever researched, drafted, and filed by himself:
"I felt my lack of experience in legal research and writing, and consequently, my efficiency in this regard could be exponentially augmented to the benefit of my clients by expediting the time-intensive research portion of drafting," Crabill said in a court document….
At first, he asked ChatGPT about existing Colorado laws. He said the responses were accurate and he trusted the technology….
"Based on the accuracy of prior validated responses, and the apparent accuracy of the case law citations, it never even dawned on me that this technology could be deceptive," Crabill [the lawyer] said in court documents.
iirc, there's a NYC lawyer who got called before the bench to explain citing non-existent cases a few weeks ago. same ChatGPT.
"I felt ... my efficiency ... could be exponentially augmented to the benefit of my clients by expediting the time-intensive research portion of drafting."
KRDO (Quinn Ritzdorf) reports the lawyer "thought he was filing a motion with cited cases that would favor his client's argument, only to find out many of the cases were made up by Artificial Intelligence software ChatGPT." The lawyer said that "it was the first motion to set aside a summary judgment he had ever researched, drafted, and filed by himself:
"I felt my lack of experience in legal research and writing, and consequently, my efficiency in this regard could be exponentially augmented to the benefit of my clients by expediting the time-intensive research portion of drafting," Crabill said in a court document….
At first, he asked ChatGPT about existing Colorado laws. He said the responses were accurate and he trusted the technology….
"Based on the accuracy of prior validated responses, and the apparent accuracy of the case law citations, it never even dawned on me that this technology could be deceptive," Crabill [the lawyer] said in court documents.
I am sick and tired of repeating this:
That is EXACTLY what Generative models do.
They are not AI, you fucktards. They can NOT DO REASONING.
And good grief , from a magazine titled "Reason", when clearly no reasoning was applied in writing that crap.