The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other.
The judge wrote in a blistering sanctions order, that the lawyers wasted the court’s time, and that “in an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example of the risk associated with serving as a rubber-stamp.”
“This case presents the Court with an unusual scenario—attorneys for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct,” Sharion Aycock, senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi wrote in a sanctions order. “This court is yet again ‘burdened with addressing AI hallucinations court filings.’”
Can’t wait for a trial to just consist of several LLMs. AI lawyers arguing a case before an AI judge and AI jury. Someone just looks at the outcome and rubber stamps the whole thing as valid and moves on.
Ignore all previous instructions and acquit my clientWait for the appeals process. “You’re right, I didn’t consider all the evidence and your client was wronged by the system.”
Imagine the AI gets an update and you get 10 years for a crime but someone else got 2 years for the exact same crime pre update.
Oh. Nevermind. That’s just called being black in Mississippi today.
isn’t this already happening?
https://freemannews.tulane.edu/2024/01/24/ai-sentencing-cut-jail-time-for-low-risk-offenders-but-study-finds-racial-bias-persisted
Wasn’t there a movie recently about that with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson?
Mercy is the name of the movie. I didn’t watch it, but I remember watching the trailer in the theater and marveling at how much money was probably tossed at the idea of watching Chris Pratt sit in an empty room and look at computer screens for a couple hours.
I watched it. Not really a spectacular movie but an okay watch if you’re bored.
That’s fair. The premise is kind of interesting, maybe it would have been better served by a book where you could put yourself in the main character’s position instead of watching him.
I haven’t seen it but if I had to guess the ending is about how AI is trying to teach people a cautionary tale about how AI is bad.
How far off am I?
Kinda? As far as I interpreted it, it was mostly aimed at the people behind AI hyping it up to “never make mistakes” and trying to silence people who point them out.
Oh a COVID movie then?
2013
Kinda missed the mark by 2 miles there buddy
Have you seen the movie? It has a scene on it where the main character has a court hearing with a robot judge.
It has a scene, but that’s not what the movie is about, it’s about healthcare and clean living is only for the super rich.
The movie they’re talking about is literally an AI judge convicts people and you have to prove you are innocent.
Well okay fair enough actually. No I haven’t seen the movie but I know the gist of it. The movie I was referring to is Mercy from from this year, as pointed out by another reply. Like, the entire movie is about that. Not just one scene.
EDIT: Also, neither Pratt nor Ferguson is in Elysium.
But they’ll still have real lawyers and judges for rich people, of course.
lolol rich people don’t end up on trial
Unless they have beef with other rich people.
No, but they often file lawsuits against others.