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Elizabeth Smith's avatar

So disturbing. As we know. some lawyers have been caught using AI to generate legal briefs with citations to nonexistent case law. Emphasis on the word "caught". What happens when people don't read and fact check (which sill inevitably happen)? We could have law based on fake cases - and worse. I know AI is here to stay, but the human eye is still critical. Thanks for the informative article, Mike. As always, Norma-worthy!

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Brad Newsham's avatar

What a discombobulating reading experience this was, Michael.

Thank you for your framing of everything. To me it felt like the experience of looking into the facing mirrors in a dressing room, and seeing a reflection of yourself march down a slowly curving tunnel that shrinks your image (your self-image?) down smaller and smaller, mirror by receding mirror, until "you" eventually disappear around a corner -- "Hey, how'd a corner sneak in there, anyway...?" -- and you're simply...gone. Vanished. But to where?

And the fact that ten of the fifteen titles are complete fabrications, but attributed to authors whose names we recognize, with plots that sound like literary cousins of these authors' actual real-life books, and that it all reads exactly like what we read in these summer reading roundups...

My brain hurts enough for all of us!

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