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.
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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
jul 3, 2025, 11:12 am • 4 0 • view
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!
jul 3, 2025, 11:28 am • 2 0 • view
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
jul 3, 2025, 11:42 am • 3 0 • view
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
jul 3, 2025, 11:43 am • 3 0 • view