
In a recent incident in a B.C. court case, a lawyer was reprimanded for citing fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT, sparking a broader discussion about the reliability and implications of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings and beyond. Experts are calling this event a wake-up call, highlighting the phenomenon of 'AI hallucinations,' where AI systems generate false or misleading information. This issue underscores the challenges of integrating AI into critical sectors, emphasizing the need for awareness and adjustment of expectations regarding AI's capabilities and limitations.



No matter how fluent and confident AI-generated text sounds, it still cannot be trusted. How can hallucinations be controlled? It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power: https://t.co/nvGHbV6hBa 👇
BC Lawyer Reprimanded For Citing Fake Cases Invented By ChatGPT https://t.co/h3ymUUIvEj
If you prompt an LLM in a way that encourages it to hallucinate, isn’t that what you’d expect? Like wouldn’t it be far worse if every time it wasn’t 100% sure about something it said “sorry as a language model I’m not sure…”? Nontech folks should be made aware of this still tho