Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!snipe.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells Subject: Re: Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 14:33:13 +0100 Organization: Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds Lines: 84 Message-ID: <1qbnhi9.3p966e1nlu1yjN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> References: <1qbffa5.1adff801ndrrcbN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> Reply-To: snipeco.1@gmail.com (Sn!pe) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0e92bf4229de80bb380a8d61755a2674"; logging-data="2954229"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18qpQOqDvzUisEOT7xJ4qrJ" User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.6b1 (ed136d9b90) (Mac OS 10.14.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2FKt8uRNjw3/W7hiKXumU9BPLwY= X-Validate: All genuine Sn!peCo articles contain the header: "Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org;" my registered FQDN. X-Disclaimer: Any advice that I may give is worth only what I paid for it. This article comprises only my personal opinions unless otherwise stated. May contain traces of nuts. X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett; WonK; Large Enid; Peter Green; Jeff Beck X-Copyright: Copyright (c) 2023 Sn!peCo WWWB, All Rights Reserved. This article may be reproduced for the purposes of propagation and personal use only, no commercial use without express permission. X-Face: 5 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. --- The above, bypassing paywall: TinyURL of above: --- > Poor example of "don't trust, do verify". > Hence my earlier (unchallenged) point that ChatGPT does not provide citations. ---[remainder left unsnipped for context]--- > > > --- > > 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] > > --- > > up-cases/> > > > > The above, bypassing paywall: > > news%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Flawyer-chatgpt-made-up-cases%2F> > > > > TinyURL of above: > > --- > > > > > > - 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. -- ^Ï^. – Sn!pe – My pet rock Gordon just is.