ChatGPT
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Court Imposes Sanctions On Lawyers Who Filed Bogus Cases After Relying On ChatGPT For Legal Research
A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers involved in this case.
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Stop Calling It A ‘Slap On The Wrist’ Just Because The Media Hyped It Up More Than It Deserved
From Hunter Biden to the ChatGPT lawyers, when media deploy the phrase ‘slap on the wrist,’ prepare to take several grains of salt.
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ChatGPT Lawyers Get Slap On The Wrist From Court. But Infamy Is Forever.
You can keep beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.
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Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research
These chatbots are bald-faced liars that pull facts out of thin air.
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* Sam Alito… COME ON DOWN! You’re the next contestant on “ProPublica is absolutely going to find all your past judicial ethics issues.” It’s becoming a popular show this year. [ProPublica]
* Trump’s documents trial set for August 14… before all the whining motions begins. [Law360]
* Fund manager explains that the legal industry is in trouble because all of his rich buddies are using ChatGPT to write all their contracts. Oh, this is going to be very funny! [Yahoo Finance]
* John Eastman’s disbarment proceedings went about as well as you’d expect. [Washington Post]
* Interesting analysis of how the nature of the student impacts the success of online legal education. [Law.com]
* Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care struck down. [Reuters]
* America needs to embrace failure a little more. It would certainly help if corporations were more open to investing in the future instead of overreacting in the present to trim enough expense to save a penny before the end of the quarter. [O’Dwyer’s]
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Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing
Would’ve been nice to catch this a little earlier…
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OpenAI Sued For Defamation Over ChatGPT ‘Hallucination’; But Who Should Actually Be Liable?
Hallucinating liability.
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* When you constantly admit to elements of a crime, it shouldn’t really be a surprise when you get indicted for that crime. [CNN]
* Julian Assange loses bid to avoid extradition to the United States. His camp says he has another appeal coming, but maybe he and Trump can soon reminisce about classified documents and Russian misinformation campaigns. [Reuters]
* Baker Botts eyes merger and five of its partners eye the leadership chair. It’s Game of Thrones except with more financial spreadsheets and less nudity. Presumably. [Bloomberg Law News]
* ChatGPTGate continued with a hearing and the two lawyers involved in citing the fake AI generated cases got a thorough tongue-lashing. [Law360]
* Speaking of AI, a radio host has sued ChatGPT for making up past criminal claims about him. This has been coming for awhile. [Business Insider]
* The FBI nabbed the guy involved in the allegations against Texas AG Ken Paxton, so that’s all crumbling apace. [Politico]
* ABA issues ruling on client intake. Look, they can’t all be earth-shattering the day after a president gets federally indicted. [American Lawyer]
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Law Students Are Reluctant To Use ChatGPT, Survey Finds. The Question Is, Why?
Only 9% of law students are currently using generative AI in their studies and only 25% say they have plans to eventually incorporate it into their work.
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Lawyers Who Used ChatGPT To Dummy Up Cases Throw Themselves On The Mercy Of The Court
That show cause hearing tomorrow is going to be WILD.
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Free Speech Hypocrisy, Hot Bench Troubles, And ChatGPT Legal Research
Maybe the woman who called the cops on a Black birdwatcher should try using ChatGPT to make up some fake caselaw for her appeal because the real ones aren’t helping.
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Law Professor’s Advice To Avoid Another ChatGPT Fiasco: Always Check Your Work
This advice seems to have been forgotten in the embarrassing case that went viral.
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If You Aren’t The One Writing Your Briefs In Texas, It Better Be Some Other Human!
You know, someone should have felt like something was up when the filing opened up with Lorem ipsum.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong When A Lawyer Relies On ChatGPT To Write A Brief?
Quite a bit actually.
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Don’t Blame ChatGPT For Bad Lawyering
Generative AI isn’t the one who filed that affirmation with the court, so stop bagging on it.
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How Generative AI Works (Part I)
This is the first in a series of articles that will help lay a foundation so attorneys can better understand how AI works.
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Coolest Legal Organization Tool Adds Generative AI To Its Arsenal
For a product all about making connections, the latest integration brings artificial brainpower to the party.