A couple federal judges were humiliated when it was revealed that they had used AI to write their decisions, as AI did what AI does, and used fake hallucinated citations. Oopsie. But fake cites are only the easiest problems to find. When cites and quotes don’t exist, it’s merely a matter of someone doing the
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The Perils Of Pro Hac
Over more than 40 years of practice, I’ve worked in jurisdictions in which I was not admitted to practice and served as local counsel to lawyers not admitted in jurisdictions where I was. It’s hardly uncommon, but it is fraught with the potential for very serious problems. As Eugene Volokh notes, those problems smacked…
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Now that the AI tech giants swear* they have fixed the problem of chatbots providing teens with the information needed to plan and execute violent attacks, lesser concerns are coming to the fore, such as AI giving people writing advice ranging from bad to mediocre in the name of a real person, without the…
Devoiding The Cobra Effect
As might be obvious, I like to write. Writing enables me to think things through, to come to grips with the errors of my views and the beliefs that cannot be justified or explained. In other words, I don’t know what I think until I see what I write. (Sorry, Bill.)
At Techdirt, Mike Masnick…
AI On The Pentagon’s Precipice (Update)
It seems clear that the op-ed couldn’t be written by Pete Hegseth, as it was coherent and all the words were spelled correctly. But it came as a shock that it was written by Frank Kendall, who served as Secretary of the Air Force under President Biden. Given the current Secretary’s obsession with war and…
But Is It “Legal Advice”?
Bradley Heppner likely could have afforded to retain any lawyer of his choosing, having allegedly defrauded investors out of $150 million. But he chose a somewhat different path. Whether it was because he believed himself to be better, or more motivated, than a lawyer, or was just a hands-on kinda guy, who knows. but he…
AI In The Pentagon’s Hands
It’s impossible not to have Artificial Intelligence, AI, touch your world anymore. How much so may be up in the air, but like it or not, tech’s fear of missing out has caused it to embrace AI, wanted or not. To a large extent, it’s background noise for many of us, with Google AI offering…
Chatbot, The Snitch
It’s unclear whether it’s the fact that people may use the internet and technology without having any real grasp of what their use entails, or that they just don’t care. But with the advent of chatbots, people are seeking legal, medical, sexual, and other interactions that involve their most intimate and personal thoughts, queries and…
Bribes Under Color Of Law
A basic premise of First Amendment law is that the government can’t censor protected speech, but a private entity can for the simple reason that it’s not the government. Sure, the government can coerce a private entity to act, thus making it an agent of the government, but that’s a separate issue. If I choose…
The Good Old Days of Entry Level Doc Review, Lost
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…