CBC Nova Scotia: Lawyer warns ‘integrity of the entire system in jeopardy’ if rising use of AI in legal circles goes wrong
March 1, 2024 —
Earlier this week, a B.C. Supreme Court judge reprimanded lawyer Chong Ke for including two AI hallucinations in an application filed last December.
Hallucinations are a product of how the AI system works, explained Katie Szilagyi, an assistant professor in the law department at University of Manitoba.
ChatGPT is a large language model, meaning it’s not looking at the facts, only what words should come next in a sequence based on trillions of possibilities. The more data it’s fed, the more it learns.