Re:Running a law firm on Free software
by gamblor956 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:48PM
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In 2023 we didn't know that LLMs would make things up even if you asked them to limit themselves to actual facts/laws/etc.
Re:Running a law firm on Free software
by skinfaxi on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:30PM
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Does that change the duty of the attorney? Paralegals can make stuff up too. Chatgpt was released in Nov 2022 and the first case of sanctions was brought in early 2023 so it doesn't seem like it was ever acceptable.
Re:Running a law firm on Free software
by gamblor956 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:43PM
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A paralegal is a human, and specifically a human that has been trained to research and not make things up.
You're right, I had my years off by one...common programming error...In 2022, people thought that LLMs were tools like Word, or a calculator. The realization that they were black boxes that could make things up or return different results for the same prompt wasn't well known back them.
My point was the first case for sanctions against a lawyer using AI was only two months after the debut of ChatGPT which undermines your thesis. You just keep repeating yourself as if that makes it so.
Is that the case? As an officer of the court, lawyers have a duty to be truthful. Putting forth an argument you didn't even read would seem to be abdicating that duty regardless of the novelty of the tool.