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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It could hallucinate a citation that never even existed as a fictional case

    That’s what happened in this case reviewed by Legal Eagle.

    The lawyer provided a brief that cited cases that the judge could not find. The judge requested paper copies of the cases and that’s when the lawyer handed over some dubious documents. The judge then called the lawyer into the court to ask why he submitted fraudulent cases and why he shouldn’t have his law licence revoked. The lawyer fessed up that he asked ChatGPT to write the brief and didn’t check the citations. When the judge asked for the cases, the lawyer went back to ask ChatGPT for them, and it generated the cases…but they were clearly not real. So much so that the defendants names would change throughout the case, the judges who ruled on the cases were from different districts, and they were all about a page long when real case rulings tend to be dozens of pages.



  • You could probably just say “thank you” over and over. Neural networks aren’t traditional programs that exit early for trivial inputs. If you get a traditional program to sort a list, the first thing it’ll do is check to see if the input is already sorted and exit if it is. The first thing AI does is convert the list into starting values for variables in a giant equation with billions of variables. Getting an answer requires calculating the entire thing.

    Maybe these larger models have some preprocessing of inputs by a traditional program to filter stuff, but seeing as they all seem to need a nuclear power plant and 10,000 GPUs to run, I’m guessing there isn’t much optimization.









  • Question: What sort of instructions have you given to your caucus and candidates about wearing MAGA merchandise or using MAGA slogans?

    Paraphrasing a little here because the annoying streamer pauses every two words to interject with something like “wow!” or “muh muh muh muh” making it difficult to actually hear the answer to the question.

    Poilievre: The instruction is that we put Canada first whether that means standing up to American aggression or against the destructive Liberal policies that have made us weak and helpless and reliant on the US. I also made it clear we need to unleash the free enterprise system to reverse the destructive Liberal policies of the last ten years of taxes that have made us weak and supported extremism so we can restore the Canadian promise.


  • I’m not from the UK and had to look this up. I’m thinking it’s this ruling from the UK Supreme Court.

    The Equality Act of 2010 outlines protections against discrimination based on sex. The Scottish government made a ruling that hiring a transwoman counted as hiring a woman for the purposes of government boards requiring a certain number of members be women. It was challenged and the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Equality Act defines sex as biological sex at birth and cannot be changed. Therefore, hiring a transwoman does not count as hiring a woman, but hiring a man.

    I have no idea why this ruling would mean a Lemmy admin can’t remove transphobic comments. The US Supreme Court has ruled many times that saying slurs is protected speech but that doesn’t mean websites can’t moderate it.