🤖 How this judge used AI to help decide a court case

Got a real legal issue for you today.

Get it? Legal issue, like of a magazine, but also…like…legal issue…

Never mind.

AI comes for the lawyers

So far, everyone says AI will destroy the following industries:

• Software engineers

• Copywriters

• Journalism

• People who write threads on Twitter

• Lawyers

Let’s talk about number 5.

How might AI replace lawyers?

Many think it’s because the law is a set of rules that an AI can interpret. So, of course, lawyers need not apply in the future.

Never mind that a surprising amount of law is understanding what someone shouldn’t do.

Some think that AI can replace lawyers with their resources stretched too thin.

While the future is uncertain, what AI is doing to lawyers right now is far more interesting.

Bloomberg reports that trademark law found some clever use cases for ChatGPT.

Think of them as a lawyer’s virtual assistant.

They’ve got AI personal assistants thumbing through databases, finding possible copyright violations.

In another case, a law student used ChatGPT to generate possible names for a cannabis brand.

AI helps these attorneys with their job, and even expand what they do.

AI can shoulder much of the tedious work of a lawyer. Whether the legal profession takes to it, though, is a different matter.

Oh also AI comes for the judges

Once again, Futurama predicted it all.

It finally happened.

A judge in Columbia used ChatGPT to help deliver a ruling.

How?

Obviously, the judge didn’t let it decide the case.

Instead, he fed it questions to ensure his ruling was, well…correct.

So students can’t do it, but once a judge does, it’s fine??

AI used as a tool != AI used as the decision-maker.

With the goal, as the judge said, to:

“reduce the amount of time needed to draft decisions after verifying the data provided by AI”

Sure, that’s how it starts. Next, I’ll be pleading my case in binary.

“Nine ways in which Buzzfeed uses AI to generate content. #3 will shake you to your core.”

A few weeks ago, Buzzfeed announced their intent to use AI-generated content. They're testing it in their stories and quizzes.

I think that's all they make nowadays anyways.

The CEO called it “part of our core business”.

And now, at last, the AI-generated quizzes pop up.

They’re pretty boring, tbh. I don’t know what I expected from Buzzfeed.

As you can see from the charts, Buzzfeed needs the buzz.

This time next year…

They’ll have one editor but a $100 trillion market cap.

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Bing AI is…confidently incorrect

Via Reddit