The salaries range from $190,000 to $235,000 per year, excluding bonuses, numbers that bring tears to the eyes of many hard-working, experienced and highly-skilled trial lawyers, the babies of Biglaw earn incomes that bear no relation to the value they bring to the table. The only drawback is that their work went from engagement in
Confabulations Cause Hallucinations
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Fresno Criminal Lawyer – Criminal Defense Lawyer Rick Horowitz
If you’ve read any of my other posts on AI, you know my key concern with it: confabulations cause hallucinations.
Case in point — and I’ll come back to this later — the other day I ran across an article about a dead
Using AI, Judge Considers Dead Victim Impact (Update)
Step aside Max Headroom, Chris Pelkey is in the courtroom. Well, not really, but close enough for Judge Todd Lang in Arizona.
Chris Pelkey was killed in a road rage shooting in Chandler, Arizona, in 2021.
Three and a half years later, Pelkey appeared in an Arizona court to address his killer. Sort of.
Pelkey,
The New Confederacy of Silence
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Fresno Criminal Lawyer – Criminal Defense Lawyer Rick Horowitz
They’re not burning books — not yet. But they are burning bridges: between truth and propaganda, between equity and erasure, between a multiracial democracy and something that looks an awful lot like the country the Confederacy dreamed of.
What we’re seeing is the
Orphans in Poisoned Libraries
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Fresno Criminal Lawyer – Criminal Defense Lawyer Rick Horowitz
The last few days, I’ve been in Las Vegas. Yeah, I know. But it’s not all fun and games; mostly, it’s not games at all. Since I like learning, it is fun.
The idea for this post — “Orphans in Poisoned Libraries: Training LLMs
Ghosts in the Machine
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Fresno Criminal Lawyer – Criminal Defense Lawyer Rick Horowitz
Ghosts in the Machine is (essentially) the third in a series of posts exploring artificial intelligence, language models, and the law from the perspective of a criminal defense attorney.
- Twenty-First Century Delphic Oracle – where I first introduced AI as a modern “oracle”
When the Law Breaks
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Fresno Criminal Lawyer – Criminal Defense Lawyer Rick Horowitz
Wave “Goodbye” justice,
in the West Wing,
What the Court says,
Doesn’t mean a damn thing.
When the law breaks,
the safeguards all fall,
And down comes the Republic,
freedoms and all.
I’m not prone to writing here on my criminal defense blog
Free Mahmoud Khalil
One of the least pleasant aspects of being principled is that you have to defend people whose ideology you find repugnant or idiotic. But that’s the test of principle, whether you’re prepared to fight for the rights you demand for the favored for those you despise. I despise Khalil. Free him.
Mahmoud Khalil was a
Seaton Writes A Pilot 2: Just Add Zombies
Prefatory Note: a prominent podcaster recently opined in the future our Netflix queues will consist of AI generated stories customized for our desires of the moment.
In an attempt to test this theory, I fed my script for “Glen the Grocery Store Greeter” to Grok and said “Add zombies.”
The following is the result.
COLD
Singapore: Guidelines for lawyers using AI in works amid concerns over user info, search history being stored
Minister of State for Law Murali Pillai said the ministry is focused on the impact of technology in the legal sector. Legal professionals will soon be equipped with a set of guidelines to assist them in the use of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) in their work. Speaking at the debate on the Ministry of