How Many Professions Will Use AI For Research Instead Of Doing Their Own Research?

An Oklahoma judge was discovered to have used AI to search for examples of custody cases. The parents had been in an ongoing custody dispute for 3 years. The mother’s lawyer began to research the examples that the judge provided for his examples to resolve the dispute and tracked them down as examples that AI had provided. It is said that there was no law against what the judge did but when he was confronted with the discovery he recused himself from the case. Seems like any lawyer would know better than to use AI much less a judge.

How many other professionals are going to get caught using AI? And how will it adversely affect their work and the clients or customers?

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Gibbon · 70-79, M

It's a double-edged sword. It's very useful as a broad spectrum fast search engine. In summarizing what those links can provide.
It's another thing altogether to have it do the work for you considering it's known to be prone to so many errors and conflictions of data.
I think other than having a fast tool to locate similar cases and identify them for you, that's where it should completely stop. It can locate them in a matter of seconds. However, it should be up to you to put the actual cases in your hands and verify them.
The flaws within its algorithms have been proven already. The meat heads that run big tech keep pushing this and doubling down on it with these big ass data centers thinking it will improve when it won't.

cherokeepatti · 70-79, F

@Gibbon the boy said some of his high school teachers were using it last year. And he believes at least one of the teachers in his college classes are using it for questions and answers they give the students. Seems to me to be a low-effort type of teaching.

Gibbon · 70-79, M

@cherokeepatti Yes it is. Many of these teachers wouldn't even qualify to teach a class when I was in school.

cherokeepatti · 70-79, F

@Gibbon No passion for teaching, just do the bare minimum, collect a check and go about life that way. But then again some of the freshmen classes are taught by graduate assistants who are being paid a minimum amount (as little as the university can get by with) and have their own class loads for master’s degrees going on at the same time.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

its like the movie idiocracy is going to be a legit thing...

DrWatson · 70-79, M

Lawyers have been caught citing cases that did not exist, because their court briefs were written by AI and humans did not check them over. (AI included fictional court cases found in works of fiction posted on the web.)

But if a judge, or anyone else, is using AI merely as a search engine, and the cases are all real, I see nothing wrong with that. It seems like a legitimate use of AI to me.

cherokeepatti · 70-79, F

@DrWatson He was using to help him with his decision. The fact that he resigned after he got caught seems to indicate to me that he knew it wasn’t right to do it that way.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@DrWatson “And if the cases are all real…” is the sticking point.

Mamapolo2016 · F

I’ve seen several stories like this. The others were lawyers, not judges, but still…

It makes you realize how thoroughly technology changes culture, and not only in gif ways. Good ways. (I typoed good and Autcorrect replaced my error with gif, which only illustrates the point.)

cherokeepatti · 70-79, F

@Mamapolo2016 This was an ongoing 3 year court case. It wouldn’t have been used 3 years ago. And that mother had likely paid out a huge amount of money for legal help with the case. Seems like a slap in the face to her and to the children to try to resolve a case this way.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@cherokeepatti To me, it’s more important that “it’s AI” is a stamp of approval. By the already flawed and shaky legal system.

wildbill83 · 41-45, M

I'd estimate that the majority of them plagiarize, AI just makes it easier...

innovation has been pretty stagnant the last 20-30 years, technology hasn't progressed as much as it did between 40's and 80's

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