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Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)

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Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.

I... don't even. I lack the words.

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[-] ghurab@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Some LLMs are already generating answers based on other llm generated contant. We've gone full circle.

I was using phind to get some information about edrum sensors, (not the intended usecase, but I was just messing around) and one of the sources was a very obvious AI generating article from a contant mill.

Skynet is going to be so inbred

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago

Model collapse is going to be a big deal and it doesn't take too much poisoned content to cause model collapse.

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