Artificial Intelligence
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Why I’ve Stopped Feeding the Machines
If you’ve been a regular reader here, you’ve probably noticed my posting cadence has changed. Where I used to publish multiple times a month, it’s now sporadic at best—mostly thoughts on AI and what it’s doing to the world we used to know. This is a deliberate choice, and I feel that maybe I owe…
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Lawyers, We’re Having the Wrong Conversation About AI
Picture this: You’re at a bar function, someone mentions they’re using AI for legal research, and immediately three people jump in with: “Oh, you have to check the citations!”… “It hallucinates!”… “I heard it gave someone completely fake cases!” Yes, we know. That was 2023. Don’t get me wrong—those were valid concerns when ChatGPT first…
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Lawyers, Don’t Fear the Reaper
A.I. may be new and scary, but the legal profession should embrace it, not bogeyman it. One of the benefits of being a licensed Florida attorney is that, every month, without fail, I receive a nice, crisp copy of The Florida Bar News. This month was like no other as I recently received the September…
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Behind Glass Eyes: A.I. Facial Recognition and the Evolved Horror of Eyewitness Error
The recent boom in the use of Artificial Intelligence models such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Co-Pilot (and a future offering from Apple on the horizon) shows that society is increasingly willing to embrace and rely upon artificial intelligence to do a great number of tasks for us. Certainly, artificial intelligence can and does…
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The Case of the Fake Cases
A Cautionary Tale of the Risk of Blind Reliance on Artificial Intelligence. In a recent federal case, two lawyers were sanctioned by a judge for citing fake cases in their brief that was filed with the court. This occurred in the case of Mata v. Avianca, Inc., Case 22-cv-1461, filed in U.S. District Court for…