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Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT

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vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 May 2023 06:17:15 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
> 
> > Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from
> > ChatGPT. 

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<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/27/lawyer-chatgpt-made-up-cases/>

The above, bypassing paywall:  
<https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fworld-news%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Flawyer-chatgpt-made-up-cases%2F>
  
TinyURL of above:  <https://tinyurl.com/yntupbe4>  
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> Poor example of "don't trust, do verify".
> 

Hence my earlier (unchallenged) point that 
ChatGPT does not provide citations.  






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> 
> > ---
> > Steven Schwartz used program to 'supplement' his work for a 10-page
> > submission to the Manhattan federal court.
> > ---
> > A New York lawyer has been forced to admit he used the artificial
> > intelligence tool ChatGPT to carry out legal research after it
> > referenced several made-up court cases.
> > ---
> > Steven Schwartz, who works for Levidow, Levidow and Oberman, is on a
> > team representing airline passenger Roberto Mata who is suing the firm
> > Avianca for injuries suffered when a serving cart hit his knee during a
> > flight from El Salvador to JFK airport in New York in 2019.
> > Mr Schwartz used the AI program to "supplement" his research for a
> > 10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court outlining why his
> > client's case should not be thrown out.
> > 
> > The legal brief, submitted in March, cited six previous cases dated from
> > 1999 to 2019 to bolster his argument for why the case should be heard
> > despite the statute of limitations having expired.  But neither the
> > airline's lawyers nor the judge could find the decisions or quotations
> > summarised in the brief.   [continues]
> > ---
> > <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/27/lawyer-chatgpt-made-
> up-cases/>
> > 
> > The above, bypassing paywall:
> > <https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fworld-
> news%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Flawyer-chatgpt-made-up-cases%2F>
> >   
> > TinyURL of above:  <https://tinyurl.com/yntupbe4>
> > ---
> >   
> >   
> > - and so the nightmare begins...
> 
> It (the nightmare) been around for at over a year.
> 
> There's talk about the licenses for code (or text) that
> these gadgets auto-generate, since they might take
> snippets of code (or text) right off the net.  But on the
> other hand:  sometimes they just make up stuff that sounds plausible.
> 
> Another example: mrs. vallor got it to generate a story
> about a rabbit, then googled the resulting text.  She found similiar
> text online, and thought she'd found evidence of
> potential plagiarism -- but it was dated *after* ChatGPT's cutoff date.
> We figured that they might be using ChatGPT to write those
> children's stories and post them to the web.


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Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2023-05-28 06:17 +0100
  Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2023-05-28 08:29 -0400
  Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@gmail.com> - 2023-05-28 15:53 -0400
  Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2023-05-31 20:27 +0000
    Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2023-06-01 14:33 +0100
      Chatbots produce bogus citations (was: Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2023-06-01 19:23 +0000
        Re: Chatbots produce bogus citations snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2023-06-01 20:45 +0100
          Re: Chatbots produce bogus citations vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2023-06-07 23:32 +0000
            Re: Chatbots produce bogus citations Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-06-08 06:07 +0100
              Re: Chatbots produce bogus citations snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2023-06-08 10:37 +0100
              Re: Chatbots produce bogus citations Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2023-06-08 10:46 -0400

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