I just learned that LinkedIn’s filters only work in the English language.
I can’t write, “shame on you,” but I can write, “qué vergüenza.”
I can’t write “suicide” but “selbstmorden” and “felo de se” are OK. In these days, helpful AI will offer to rewrite your suicide note.
The rich insult vocabulary of Yiddish also escapes these filters, e.g., “where’d you get that schmatte?”
Google Gemini has a different take: the word “sodomy” is prohibited, but murder and other less-deliberate violence is permitted, as befits a company whose headquarters are in the 2A USA.
The recent film Rosario has as one of its themes the Afro-Cuban religion known as palo mayombé, or palo for short. There was a time when I handled cases in Detroit; one of them involved a practitioner of palo. Every Miamian knows of santería and its struggle with local laws, “Pastor” Ernesto Pichardo’s journey to the Supreme Court and the seven syncretized gods known as orishas. But not everyone knows palo, the black to santería’s white.
Another Reason why American Insurance is so Costly
Six people in Palm Beach County Florida
Civil juries in Florida are comprised of only six people. awarded 85 year-old golfer Jack Nicklaus FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS in compensation on the grounds he was defamed by an allegation he was no longer competent to handle his business affairs.
The six weren’t spending their own money.
Who do you think has to pay?
AI Legal Hallucinations and Unsolved Erdös Problems
We’ve just seen the first example
Maybe “one of the first.”of non-legal AI hallucinations in the wild, where ChatGPT claimed to solve ten previously unsolved Erdös math problems. Heretofore, AI hallucinations were confined to “invented” legal cases. But is this really a problem? Lawyering is an easy target for AI hallucinations because cases are the bricks of any legal structure and there is simply so much law with new cases coming out every day that a missing brick can easily be replaced with an invented one. We all know 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂 right? Do you know the full cite offhand? Probably not. Is there any State that hasn’t followed 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂? No. So there’s really no harm to make one up, right? That’s the trap AI has fallen into, because it’s not really a reasoning model.
Has there been a single case where AI invented a case that purported to overturn 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂? No. Or 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒗. 𝑩𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏? Instead, AI hallucinations (for the most part) merely “support” well-founded legal principles. It’s a safe bet that Wyoming has its own version of the Statute of Frauds, or simply follows the common law. A hallucinated case that states this does no real harm. If a common law jurisdiction were to throw out the Statute of Frauds, that would be astonishing and a hallucinated case that so held easily discovered.
ChatGPT’s AI just claimed it had solved 10 previous unsolved Erdös math problems. Turns out the problems had been solved by others but the Erdös math problems web page hadn’t been updated with the solutions. ChatGPT merely found the papers where mathematicians had solved the problems and presented their work as its own.
There really isn’t too much of a danger with fake legal citations. Let’s not clutch our pearls in horror just yet. Lots of legal work doesn’t involve case citations anyway. Local citations are useless in international business and arbitrations. It could be well-argued that other than crim law and personal injury, they don’t really matter. If hallucinations cause a decrease in published opinions, this is probably a good thing, especially when a subscription to the Federal Reporter comes in at an eye-watering $30k per annum.
(true story, novella length)
A planned meeting with an NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by a Saudi king; a meeting on 26 June 2023 with DoJ growing out of the 1MDB scandal; the aftermath of the Mariscal Sucre drilling project off the coast of Venezuela, a Russian hypersonic missile specialist seeking to defect; the location of kidnapped American journalist/spy/law student/ex-Marine Austin Tice; a CIA signer of the Hunter Biden laptop letter and meth smuggling routes out of Syria through Jordan and the UAE.
A planned meeting with a NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by a Saudi king; a meeting on 26 June 2023 with DoJ growing out of the 1MDB scandal; the aftermath of the Mariscal Sucre drilling project off the coast of Venezuela, a Russian hypersonic missile specialist seeking to defect; the location of kidnapped American journalist/spy/law student/ex-Marine Austin Tice; a CIA signer of the Hunter Biden laptop letter and meth smuggling routes out of Syria through Jordan and the UAE.
In January 2024, my colleague crowbarred me into a conference call with Oliver Stanford, a potential client in New York who had been beaten up by a gang. The story, as relayed to me, was that Oliver was so traumatized by the incident that he wanted to leave the United States to live under a new identity.
I didn’t see this as a matter I could help with. Oliver was an attorney and if he needed a new name he could simply apply for one.
