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by butlike 562 days ago
If it's not acceptable to hallucinate laws for writing legal documents, then writing legal documents is probably an unacceptable use case.

Also, how do you mitigate a lawyer writing whatever they want (aka: hallucinating) when writing legal documents? Double-checking??

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Lawyers can already be sanctioned for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSYljRYDEM&pp=ygUObGVnYWwgZ...
> Also, how do you mitigate a lawyer writing whatever they want (aka: hallucinating) when writing legal documents? Double-checking??

Of course they are supposed to double and triple and multiple check as they think and write, documentation and references at hand, _exactly_ how you are supposed to do from trivial informal context on towards critical ones - exactly the same, you check the detail and the whole, multiple times.

A licensing body, and consequences for the failure to practice law correctly.
> If it's not acceptable to hallucinate laws for writing legal documents

Legislators pass incoherent legislation every day. "hallucination" is the de-facto standard for human behavior (and for law).