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Wooo... Yikes. Tomorrow I walk into an interview for an ai job. It's an industry that needs receipts as the llms like to say ... And I may use this as a case for what not to do with AI lol... Basically talking myself out of a job... Sigh.

Everything Trump touches dies. This guy had a thirty year law career. And he’s standing in court today, trying to explain how he fabricated quotes in a filing, and the best he can come up with is that he put them in a draft.

I‘ve noticed on social media people using quote marks around what are really paraphrases, or taking out words and phrases without using ellipses. Just increasingly sloppy. But doing that in court order? Next level. And he didn’t misquote, he fabricated quotes. Almost certainly intentionally.

Background information here:

Today at 4:00 I will go over to Raleigh and sit in on a show-cause hearing. This will be my first time attempting to live-post a hearing in person. The case is Fivehouse v. DOD and the question is whether the DOJ attorney fabricated quotes in a brief.

AI hasn’t gone to law school, and is trained omnivorously, so doesn’t know the difference the F.3d from Sports Illustrated. So of course it will invent things. Stay away!

Even trained purely on appropriate texts, an LLM would still just be a word prediction engine, not something that is actually designed for determining truth. This branch of AI technology is a useless novelty, and definitionally cannot be made useful for any real application. Work done with it rots.

Great work on this! My fave line from the judge "I understand the meaning of the words you are saying but it doesn't make any sense". Can apply this to all Republicans these days from Trump down...

Thanks I read your whole thread You did a great job I remember Scott McFarlane laye of CBS getting his start attending J6 trials & live-tweeting them Followed you. Thanks Randy

So embarrassing for the eastern district but a well deserved roast. Great posting. Thank you. And, Raleigh has a number of good beer joints even if it doesn't have enough trees so hold your fire folks.