[HN Gopher] Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Fi...
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Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading
to Sanctions
Author : speckx
Score : 33 points
Date : 2024-02-24 21:59 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| renewiltord wrote:
| Turns out there are lots of lawyers out there who are morons. I
| guess being a lawyer is not a high bar (heh).
| Terr_ wrote:
| When we look at certain professions as "smart", I think it's
| kind of a Fundamental Attribution Error: "That other guy must
| be an X because he's smart, but I'm a Y just because I happen
| to know a lot of profession-stuff, you don't _need_ to be that
| smart to Y... "
| cubix wrote:
| Having had to recently deal with a prosecuting attorney in a
| small rural county, even hallucinating AI would be a
| significant improvement.
| greenyoda wrote:
| The Massachusetts case, Smith v. Farwell, is currently being
| discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491510
| sophacles wrote:
| > In a reply brief, Karlen apologized for citing fictitious cases
| and said that they came from an online consultant he hired to
| write the brief who claimed to be an attorney licensed in
| California.
|
| If the person hired was an attorney - can they be sued by Karlen
| for his original payment as well as the fines imposed by the
| court?
|
| If Karlen was scammed, I would hope the Feds take interest in
| this, as this sort of scam is potentailly very dangerous.
|
| I'm sure there are plenty of other scenarios that could turn out
| to be the truth (aside from the lawyer used GPT and the "lawyer"
| used GPT), but assuming Karlen is telling the truth I find these
| questions to be interesting.
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