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There has been a spate of lawyers using AI to find pertinent citations to bolster their cases. The problem is that “generative AI” has been generating non-existent cases. Here’s a recent one from Huntsville, Alabama, where the judge found “five fabricated legal citations”.
I experienced this myself a few days later. The Tour de France had just ended and I was curious about the bikes themselves and the mechanics who worked on them. The curiosity was occasioned when the eventual winner of the Tour, Tadej Pogacar, was in a crash that threw his chain. Tadej was fumbling around trying to put it back in place when a mechanic from his team rushed over and fixed it in what seemed like less than a second. So I asked an AI platform to find for me “tour de france documentary that explains the bikes themselves and the mechanics that work on them”.
It quickly produced a result that looked to be exactly what I asked for:
It conveniently gave me the title, date, a helpful (I thought) description, and in two cases the source platform.
The only problem: None of the three documentaries exist. I searched the internet with the titles, parts of the titles, the sources, and parts of descriptions. Here’s an example of what the searches turned up:
Continued below.
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I experienced this myself a few days later. The Tour de France had just ended and I was curious about the bikes themselves and the mechanics who worked on them. The curiosity was occasioned when the eventual winner of the Tour, Tadej Pogacar, was in a crash that threw his chain. Tadej was fumbling around trying to put it back in place when a mechanic from his team rushed over and fixed it in what seemed like less than a second. So I asked an AI platform to find for me “tour de france documentary that explains the bikes themselves and the mechanics that work on them”.
It quickly produced a result that looked to be exactly what I asked for:
It conveniently gave me the title, date, a helpful (I thought) description, and in two cases the source platform.
The only problem: None of the three documentaries exist. I searched the internet with the titles, parts of the titles, the sources, and parts of descriptions. Here’s an example of what the searches turned up:
Continued below.
"Falsehood They Speak One to Another" (Psalm 12)
On the 'hallucinations' of Artificial Intelligence
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