General Plagiarism AI Generated Content?

[Shawn Gossman]

For example, if you use ChatGPT to file a lawsuit like some lawyers, be sure to check the precedents it's citing do actually exist...

Yeah, or you'll end up like this guy

 

[Arantor]

Yeah, or you'll end up like this guy

This is literally zero surprise.

ChatGPT does not “know” anything. It however knows what things “look like”. So it can construct something that looks like a legal citation because it has enough references to be able to recognise the patterns. But it doesn’t actually know anything.

Any time it gives you facts, it’s giving you sentences where the statistical correlations of those words is higher than not, I.e. enough other people have said it for it to be probably true. But that’s the extent of its cleverness.