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the lawyer in question “asserted that he had not been aware that generative AI frequently fabricates or hallucinates legal sources"
I’m no lawyer, but wouldn’t the responsibility of due diligence rest… on the lawyer? “I didn’t know” is usually never a legal defence, for pretty much anything.
And these guys charge hundreds of dollars an hour. SMH.
I think that response is more responsible than most of the lawyers in that article. “I didn’t think I needed to check the LLM’s work, I fucked up, my bad” is a lot more honest and forthright than “it’s my paralegal’s fault” or “somebody in my office did it” or “my deadlines were too tight to do my job right” or “I was out sick at the time” or whatever.
Fucking lawyers. They’re the worst possible way to defend people’s rights except for all the others.
Generative AI is a lazy shortcut for the untalented or dispassionate.
What we found was incredibly fascinating, and reveals a mix of lawyers blaming IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants.
Emphasis mine. I’m just going to go with “the entitled” on this one.
That’s why it’s so popular.
“I’m sorry Your Honor, the gig-worker I hired to do my job for me was ‘vibe-clerking.’”
This lawyer was sanctioned $100 by a court for one AI-generated case
Jesus Christ, that’s messed up. That number needs a few more zeros added. These are lawyers we’re talking about. $100 is a beverage at dinner to them.
most often, they simply blame their assistants
Yeah, if you’re using AI at work, you should expect to get fired.
they will be held responsible if they do not catch AI hallucinations in their briefs.
Can’t we just wholesale ban them from using this tech, rather than require them to catch all the hallucinations?
404 Media has been analyzing dozens of court cases around the country in which lawyers have been caught using generative AI to craft their arguments, generate fictitious citations, generate false evidence…
Ah, so basically doing what the government prosecutors normally do
Please post the entire article here. It doesn’t fully load on the site.
