Full title: ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
People in software development who use AI to code don’t realize how many white collar mid level admin people have started totally phoning it in using LLMs. I’m mildly curious to see how long they can ride this out.
Before the pandemic, two of my coworkers were first year law students together at the local university. The teachers discovered a cheating ring of 170+ students in their class of something like 200 students.
They just made them take a new version of the most recent exam and there was no other punishment, because it was too devastatingly large a portion of their students to expel them all, even though that was their stated policy.
I suspect something similar will happen with AI, and it will be just as disappointing.
And here we can observe the mechanism behind collective action: Whether what you’re doing is legal is becomes less important if there are enough of you to make punishing them all infeasible.
Of course, reality is more complex and less homogeneous than a class of aspiring lawyers, so assembling a sufficiently large and disciplined group is more difficult.
yea it would likely draw in investigation from otuside sources, too much negative publicity would hurt the law school, less people applying to a less than legitimate school. could be de-accreditation worthy too.
85% of law students have poor ethics. Yeah, that sounds about right
Confirmed. I use AI at my white collar work . After years of experience I can do my job in my sleep so I dont see an issue with getting AI to do the heavy lifting. I just check to make sure the output isn’t wrong or un-commercial and edit it to make it sound more natural. This can sometimes take a lot more time than just doing it myself tbf.
Maybe this is the end of the World and I’ll end up brain dead and/or unemployed but for now at least it makes my work day more bearable.
Also a white collar guy in a professional industry. I write lots of letters, memos, and other “word spreadsheets” as I call them.
I am well versed enough with Ai that I know I could have it help me do my job; however, I find I would spend as much or more time reviewing it and rewriting it that I have chosen not to use it almost at all.
I’ve used it for some simple review or research but again it is limited and have provided incorrect information often so I typically avoid it and rely on human ingenuity.
My work day is bearable because I take time through my day to unplug, walk outside and talk to other humans and for that I am aware I’m privileged in that regard.