We’re excited to announce a new resource for our community: the AI Law Librarians Prompt Library, a place for law librarians (and the legal community at large) to share and collect useful prompts.
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Whether you’re a law librarian, lawyer, or law student, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of developing effective prompts
I’m sharing a guide and exercise I’ve developed for my legal research courses. This Google spreadsheet provides instructions on crafting AI prompts for legal research and includes a practical exercise for comparing different AI systems. It’s designed to help develop skills in leveraging AI for legal research. Feel free to copy it to adapt it
On June 12, 2024, we (Sarah Gotschall, Rebecca Fordon, and Sean Harrington) had the pleasure of presenting Improving the Creation of Legal Scholarship with Generative AI as part of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Technology Law section summer webinar series. If interested, you can watch the recording here or access the PowerPoint
This is a post from multiple authors: Rebecca Fordon (The Ohio State University), Deborah Ginsberg (Harvard Law Library), Sean Harrington (University of Oklahoma), and Christine Park (Harvard Law Library)
In late 2023, several legal research databases and start-up competitors announced their versions of ChatGPT-like products, each professing that theirs would be the latest and greatest.
The world of AI chatbots is a whirlwind of innovation, with new developments and surprises seemingly emerging every week! Since the end of April, one particular model, modestly gpt2-chatbot, captured the attention of myself and other AI enthusiasts due to its advanced abilities and sparked much speculation. This mysterious bot first appeared on April 28
Today’s guest post comes from Debbie Ginsberg, Faculty Services Manager at Harvard Law School Library.
I was supposed to write a blog post about the Harvard AI summit about six months ago. For various reasons (e.g., “didn’t get my act together”), that hasn’t happened. But one of the things that was brought up at the
A few months ago, a law professor posted on Twitter about a hallucination he observed in Lexis+ AI. He asked “What cases have applied Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College to the use of race in government decisionmaking?” The answer from Lexis+ AI included two hallucinated cases. (It was obvious they were hallucinated,
When it comes to interacting with others, we humans often find ourselves influenced by persuasion. Whether it’s a friend persistently urging us to reveal a secret or a skilled salesperson convincing us to make a purchase, persuasion can be hard to resist. It’s interesting to note that this susceptibility to influence is not exclusive to
While taking a well-deserved break from the grind of writing memos and analyzing the news of the day, Claude (aka the illustrious author Claudia Trey) penned a 77-page extensively footnoted law review article that’s causing quite a stir on SSRN entitled “Bloodlines Over Merits: Exposing the Discriminatory Impact of Legacy Preferences in College
Introduction
I’ve been incredibly excited about the premium version of Claude 3 since its release on March 4, 2024, and for good reason. Now that my previous favorite chatty chatbot, ChatGPT-4, has gone off the rails, I was missing a competent chatbot… I signed up the second I heard on March 4th, and it