Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases::Mr Roberts suggested there may come a time when conducting legal research without the help of AI is ‘unthinkable’
That’s good advice. Shame he and his colleagues didn’t follow it in 303 Creative
Citing non-existent facts in your judgment is just fine though
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“Counsel, can you cite precedent?”
“Why, yes I can your honor. It’s a precedent I made up.”
Cool, just like the majority on SCOTUS has done in the last year. Made up doctrines, faked originalism. All without the aid of AI!
“Counsel, can you cite precedent?”
“Why, yes I can your honor. Trust me bro.”
Oh no! What if it grants women reproductive rights!
LIKE DOBBS?!?!?
Yeah, or we could just hold lawyers to higher standards and expect them to do their due diligence like they should anytime they submit court documents. The one time I had to go through a lawyer for something involving a court case, they sent a PDF document of a court filing they were going to submit on my behalf for me to review and sign. I noticed multiple errors and made a detailed list of pg# and paragraph where each correction was needed, sent it back to them. A day or two later I got a “revised” copy of the document back that not only missed some of the errors I had called out, but introduced additional errors. At that point, given what I was paying per hour for their “services”, I said fuck it, opened up the PDF and made the corrections myself, then signed it and sent it on.
I’m sure it was just being handled by a paralegal or an intern or whatever, but it was aggravating that I basically had to do the lawyer’s job for them, since going through multiple rounds of corrections would’ve likely cost me more than just doing it myself.
Didnt they rule on 2 seperate cases based of situations that didnt actually happen, but just “may infact, someday” happen? Like yeah, dont use AI for ruleings but we have some deeper issues here
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts discussed AI and its possible impact on the judicial system in a year-end report published over the weekend.
Mr Roberts acknowledged that the emerging tech was likely to play an increased role in the work of attorneys and judges, but he did not expect to be fully replaced anytime soon.
In addition to those risks, popular LLM chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard can produce false information — referred to as “hallucinations” rather than “mistakes” — which means users are rolling the dice anytime they take trust the bots without checking their work first.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, admitted that he had used an AI to look up court case records, which he then gave as a list of citations to his legal team.
Due to the potential pitfalls of AI reliance, Mr Roberts urged legal workers to exercise “caution and humility” when relying on the chatbots for their work.
The court has proposed a rule that would require lawyers to either certify that that did not rely on AI software to draft briefs, or that a human fact-checked and edited any text generated by a chatbot.
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Well of course there will be a time when doing legal research without AI is unthinkable. It’s the same as doing math today without a calculator, or washing clothes without a washing machine.
People do these things only because they have a reason not to (can’t afford a washing machine, or learning math and need to do it manually).
I would be surprised if that time is longer than 10 years away too.
I warn of dangers of authentic stupidity in judicial work
he’s just mad because an AI can’t pay him to live in his own house and take him on thousand dollar/day luxury vacations
