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points by skinfaxi 5 hours ago | 0 comments

> The first year that commercial LLMs became available, a lawyer could plausibly claim they didn't know any better that an LLM would fuck things up

Is that the case? As an officer of the court, lawyers have a duty to be truthful. Putting forth an argument you didn't even read would seem to be abdicating that duty regardless of the novelty of the tool.

[–] gamblor956 5 hours ago

In 2023 we didn't know that LLMs would make things up even if you asked them to limit themselves to actual facts/laws/etc.

[–] skinfaxi 4 hours ago

Does that change the duty of the attorney? Paralegals can make stuff up too. Chatgpt was released in Nov 2022 and the first case of sanctions was brought in early 2023 so it doesn't seem like it was ever acceptable.