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by zdragnar 130 days ago
Lawyers are getting in trouble because they use AI and submit fabricated citations about fabricated cases as precedent. A bunch of charges were recently thrown out in Wisconsin because of this, and it's not the first time such behavior has made the news.

https://www.wpr.org/news/judge-sanctions-kenosha-county-da-a...

AI is indeed being understood to be an expert that replaces human judgement, and people are being hurt because of it.

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The real analog here would be an electronics teacher leading his students to create a circuit that caught fire. If you’re confidently giving faulty information to people that don’t know any better, you’re not teaching them.