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by vb-8448 40 days ago
I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff ... at the point lawyers will become kinda "seo"/"copywriter" experts on how to better trick the others LLM.
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> I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff

We are already well beyond this point. Look already at the number of cases around the world where lawyers have provided documents to the court with hallucinated case citations.

Almost makes me want to get a law degree.
the look on the face of the Court administrator upon hearing someone describe the "paperclip maximizer" problem.. ominous!
I mean, the laws are written down somewhere though. A human can still look at the actual law and surmise that the AI is feeding them bullshit.
I think the problem is that laws overlap, with decades of case law clarifying their interactions. Looking at one law probably isn't enough to determine whether an LLM is lying to you.
In that situation I would trust an LLM over a person. It’s a digest and review problem.
Human judges today often don't bother to look at "the actual law" and surmise that the human is feeding them bullshit.