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I saw an article from ars that tracked the AI company down, it's registered to the same office as the lawyer, and immediately started advertising this case bragging about it being used in an actual trial, no mention of how much it fucked up and the client was guilty.
He's got a pretty good shot at this, and the lawyer should 100% face consequences. Even if he just used it, but especially if he owns the AI company he used. Doubly so for not disclosing the connection or informing the client it was being used.
But how do you tell if the AI performed worse or better than the lawyer. What is the bar here for competence. What if it was a losing case regardless and this is just a way to exploit the system for a second trial.
In my opinion, how good the AI performed is irrelevant. What is is the fact that an AI was used instead of the lawyer.
If it is proven that the lawyer used what the AI delivered verbatim then it doesn't matter how good that text was. The client has the right to have a lawyer, not an AI pretending to be a lawyer.
But can they use an auto correct?
Autocorrect does single words and you usually review each word. Something like ChatGPT will generate an entire document for you, it's up to you if you want to verify the correctness of everything in there, which most people don't.
Auto correct can also fix sentence structure. You could replace every sentence with their suggestion. So what I'm trying to say is that its about how its used. A lot of people are shocked someone would use it to produce things on their behalf. I'm going the other way and saying if used correctly, what is produced is superior to things produced without it.