332 instances of lawyers in Australia using AI evidence which “hallucinated”.
And this week one was finally punished.
I don’t want to defend ai again, but it’s a technology, it can do some things and can’t do others. By now this should be obvious to everyone. Except to the people that believe everything commercials tell them.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok? So, what you are saying is that some lawyers are idiots. I could have told you that before ai existed.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s not the AIs which are crap, its what they’ve been sold as capable of doing and the reliability of their results that’s massivelly disconnected from reality.
The crap is what a most of the Tech Investor class has pushed to the public about AI.
It’s thus not at all surprising that many who work or manage work in areas were precision and correctness is essential have been deceived into thinking AI can do much of the work for them and it turns out AI can’t really do it because of those precision and correctness requirement.
This will hit more people who are not Tech experts, such as Lawyers, but even some supposedly Tech experts (such as programmers) have been swindled in this way.
There are a ton of great uses for AI, especially stuff other than LLMs, in areas where false positives or false negatives are no big deal, but that’s not were the Make Money Fast push for them is.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think people today, after having a year experience with ai know it’s capabilities reasonably well. My mother is 73 and it’s been a while since she stopped joking about what ai wrote to her that was silly or wrong, so people using computers at their jobs should be much more aware.
I agree about that llms are good at some things. They are great tools for what they can do. Let’s use them for those things! I mean even programming has benefitted a lot from this, especially in education, junior level stuff, prototyping, …
When using any product, a certain responsibility falls on the user. You can’t blame technology for what stupid users do.
kouichi@ani.social 1 day ago
How many people do you think know that AIs are “trained on tokens”, and understand what that means? It’s clearly not obvious to those who don’t, which are roughly everyone.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You don’t have to know about tokens to see what ai can and cannot do.
huppakee@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Go to an art museum and somebody will say ‘my 6 year old can make this too’, in my view this is a similar fallacy.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That makes no sense. That has nothing to do with it. What are you on about.
That’s like watching tv and not knowing how it works. You still know what to get out of it.