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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

“It's little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some people are smart enough to be a lawyer yet still really fucking stupid.

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

You don't have to be smart to become a lawyer, lots of memorizing and some street smarts will do just fine

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