[masklinn]

It seems very similar to the case of the lawyers who used an LLM as a case law search engine. The LLM spit out bogus cases, then when the judge asked them to produce the cases as the references let nowhere they asked the LLM to produce cases which it "did".

[dotnet00]

Or similarly the case where a professor failed an entire class of students (resulting in their diplomas being denied) for cheating on the essays using AI because he asked an LLM if the essays were AI generated and it said yes.

[masklinn]

I’d not heard about that one, it’s hilarious.

[syncsynchalt]

Adding a link for anyone else interested: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/texas-...

[greenyoda]

Some discussions of the lawyer story, in case someone missed them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130354

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352