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joshtaylor.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Two more AI hallucinations in Australian court judgements today

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sandrew-0.bsky.social•4 days ago

Judges need to hold these lawyers in contempt, then maybe they'll check their ai nonsense before lodging.

erudite.bsky.social•4 days ago

Could be they self-represented and aren't actually lawyers.

elliottlusztig.bsky.social•4 days ago

This happened to me in a Legal Studies course I taught at UC Santa Cruz last year. Several cheating student papers "hallucinated" the same case history for EPA v Mink, claiming it was about pesticides (instead of nuclear testing).

debraarcher.bsky.social•3 days ago

And so we turn back to physical libraries for legal (and every other) research.

stuckatthisbit.bsky.social•4 days ago

Any Australian lawyer who put ai-hallucinated citations in a court document at this point might as well just mail their practice certificate to their State’s legal regulatory body to save time

amidancing.bsky.social•2 days ago

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curiousphysio.bsky.social•3 days ago

What? A judge used AI for his judgement?

joshtaylor.bsky.social•3 days ago

No

curiousphysio.bsky.social•3 days ago

What then? Cited by the barristers for one of the sides?

joshtaylor.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's there in the screenshots

curiousphysio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ah! It was your headline that tricked me😂

100dianne.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just plain lazy not to double check your own citations. No excuses judges need to be tougher to nip this in the bud, crazy lazy crap.

joshtaylor.bsky.social•4 days ago

At some point I'll have to stop tracking it but it's happening a lot!

mjoneillchw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just automate it! I’m sure it will go very smoothly and not run into any problems at all!

msbhavur.bsky.social•4 days ago

Were the offending parties self-represented? (I recall a couple of earlier Australian cases involved them)

joshtaylor.bsky.social•4 days ago

First one yes. Second doesn't say but you could read how it is written to suggest so

timzahara.bsky.social•3 days ago

They were both self-represented (fortunately for the legal profession!)

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joshtaylor.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ah I didn't scroll to the bottom for the other one