Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.

I… don’t even. I lack the words.

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    1 year ago

    Not even close to the second time. It’s happening constantly but is getting missed.

    Too many people think LLMs are accurate.

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        Some LLMs are already generating answers based on other llm generated contant. We’ve gone full circle.

        I was using phind to get some information about edrum sensors, (not the intended usecase, but I was just messing around) and one of the sources was a very obvious AI generating article from a contant mill.

        Skynet is going to be so inbred

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          1 year ago

          Model collapse is going to be a big deal and it doesn’t take too much poisoned content to cause model collapse.

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        1 year ago

        Have found, not will find.

        There are so many spam sites with LLM content.