Alliandre📚🐴🌻🇪🇺

I had a hunch this was happening a couple years ago, thank you for confirming it. I write everything offline these days. Interesting that the publisher Hachette told you to not to use Google Docs, so they do have some internal policies trying to combat LLMs and prevent data leakage… 🤔 I would love to know what other internal practices and guidelines they now have in place.

This right here. I remember when I first started editing my book my private developmental editor told me I could use ChatGPT to fact check. It literally cited my WaPo article as written by someone else. I paid a graduate student $1,000 to do my fact checking instead. You CANT trust it

More lawyers in trouble for AI misuse today: Attorney represented a criminal defendant and filed an application to reopen an appeal. The application alleged prosecutorial misconduct and cited quotes attributed to the prosecutor. Only problem was the quotes were completely made up. "The page Appellant cites to on page 4 for the 'legally inflammatory' statement by the prosecutor- is, in fact, the court reporter’s signature page, with no statements of any type by the prosecutor." The fake quotes came from ChatGPT. A paralegal uploaded case materials to ChatGPT and pasted the output into the application. The lawyer didn't catch it. But it gets worse: after the application was denied, the lawyer appealed the denial to the Ohio Supreme Court anyway. And when he submitted his firms "AI Policy" to show he was taking corrective action, the court determined that the policy itself was AI-generated and was incomplete. "The proffering of an AI-generated AI policy as a remedial measure in a case involving the submission of AI-generated fabrications to this court is, at best, ironic." And two months after the sanctions hearing in this case, the attorney did it again, in another case. He submitted a filing with the ChatGPT prompt embedded in the filing itself: "Would you like me to draft the next argument section (e.g., argument 1 – B on the 'nature of the charge' omission) in the same tone and format so your brief reads as a seamless multi-print memorandum?" Sanctions: -$2,000 fine -Referral to Ohio Office of Disciplinary Counsel -Must serve copy of judgment on judge of every court in which he makes an appearance, for 2 years -Must include certification that all cases are real and verified, for 2 years -6 hours mandatory CLE about AI ethics -Must write apology letters to prosecutor, trial judge, trial defense counsel, and prior appellate counsel who were defamed by fake quotes.

My fav malapropism

re: the AI book being pulled at Hachette - though I agree we shouldn’t let AI ‘books’ be published, how are they making sure to be absolutely 100% certain it was indeed written with AI? Because if there isn’t a definitive system in place this could become very messy for authors

Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says “something isn’t making sense” - as TWO staff in hospital. “There's been a lot of talk about how hard it is to transmit… …but actually, it was transmitted a LOT more easily, by the looks of it, than they're suggesting” 🧵

I ran some of my writing through an AI checker. 29.7% robot-generated! Thing is, it obviously wasn't. Ethical and creative reasons aside, the book in question is nearly a decade old - well before technology could do this. 1/3