Someone in a position of power told me you "don't need to go to law school anymore," just use ChatGPT. I guess the idea that "anyone can do complex jobs now" (writing, coding, lawyering, all creative pursuits, etc) is appealing to people who never wanted to do the work. Good luck with that!
There's already been more than one case in the UK where lawyers were publicly rebuked by the judge for using LLMs in cases - in one case citing completely fake precedents.
All I want is the future envisioned back in the 1920s and 30s - a life of ease while robots and machines do all the work.
I thought of this comment when I read here that someone talked to a person crying on the steps of the courthouse because they had used ChatGPT in court and they lost bigly.
I knew lawyers were being idiotic with it (and sometimes getting caught though I suspect many judges never checked) but I still find it mind-boggling that someone would think they could use it isntead of a lawyer
I don’t like AI (so far) and don’t use it (to my knowledge) but I wonder if you could think of it like Wikipedia? You never take Wikipedia as gospel, it’s a decent start point but if you’ve got integrity you check what they’re saying. I assume same with AI, use as start point, then check the facts!
LLMs are only useful at all if something is hard to discover and easy to verify. Even then you'd be supporting of climate-destroying plagiarism. The underlying technology is useful for things like protein folding and weather prediction (with care) but those are not ChatGPT
Wikipedia by contrast has a lot of people making great efforts to make sure it's true and to provide citations and isn't run by people actively working to increase fossil fuel burning