And it begins
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Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinations
The firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around:
• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal… pic.twitter.com/oCnjqiOTII
And it beginsI’m not a Luddite, but this is why state and local governments need to allow the construction of “data centers” that consume resources (land, water, noise pollution) and electricity, and produce…? Well, what benefits, exactly?
Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinations
The firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around:
• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
• Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
• Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
The primary team and secondary review all failed to catch these errors, meanwhile the firm's partners bill $2,000+ per hour
We need to pay these costs because we need to be on the bleeding edge of the future so we can do this?
Make it make sense.
I taught English for 20 years. Believe me, students desperate to not do the reading and thinking can come up with fake quotes and fill a paper with nonsense without any access to artificial intelligence. We don’t really need to outsource stupidity.*
*And I was teaching community college students, basically people who still needed a few more years of high school. Lawyers in elite law firms are supposed to be the best and the brightest. They certainly think they are. This is the revenge of the other 90% of law school graduates. But it still doesn’t explain what AI is good for.
AI is destroying the resume writing profession that one of my relations was employed in. You have to wonder how many elite resumes or at least of those with enough money to hire a professional in the past is full of such "hallucinations." It's also destroying the jobs of graphic artists, voice-over artists, etc. And the crap it produces - aside from the likes of the Iranian Lego videos, which are clever crap - is crap. I've read about it destroying the careers of singer-songwriters and, especially folky performers whose material, their playing and voices, is being copied and copyrighted by AI hucksters. The state of the law is, as it always is and likes to remain, willfully stupid on behalf of the richest and far, far behind the reality of things.
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