LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

@icedquinn ;

12k VR tv? Gambling Machine? Some other machine that sucks the souls out of people?

@hackernews@die-partei.social

I don't feel like parsing this... so here's what I nabbed::

The lawsuit began like so many others: A man named Roberto Mata sued the airline Avianca, saying he was injured when a metal serving cart struck his knee during a flight to Kennedy International Airport in New York.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">When Avianca asked a Manhattan federal judge to toss out the case, Mr. Mata’s lawyers vehemently objected, submitting a 10-page brief that cited more than half a dozen relevant court decisions. There was Martinez v. Delta Air Lines, Zicherman v. Korean Air Lines and, of course, Varghese v. China Southern Airlines, with its learned discussion of federal law and “the tolling effect of the automatic stay on a statute of limitations.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">There was just one hitch: No one — not the airline’s lawyers, not even the judge himself — could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">That was because ChatGPT had invented everything.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The lawyer who created the brief, Steven A. Schwartz of the firm Levidow, Levidow &amp; Oberman, threw himself on the mercy of the court on Thursday, saying in an affidavit that he had used the artificial intelligence program to do his legal research — “a source that has revealed itself to be unreliable.”</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Schwartz, who has practiced law in New York for three decades, told Judge P. Kevin Castel that he had no intent to deceive the court or the airline. Mr. Schwartz said that he had never used ChatGPT, and “therefore was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">He had, he told Judge Castel, even asked the program to verify that the cases were real.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It had said yes.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Schwartz said he “greatly regrets” relying on ChatGPT “and will never do so in the future without absolute verification of its authenticity.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Judge Castel said in an order that he had been presented with “an unprecedented circumstance,” a legal submission replete with “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” He ordered a hearing for June 8 to discuss potential sanctions.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">As artificial intelligence sweeps the online world, it has conjured dystopian visions of computers replacing not only human interaction, but also human labor. The fear has been especially intense for knowledge workers, many of whom worry that their daily activities may not be as rarefied as the world thinks — but for which the world pays billable hours.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics professor at New York University School of Law, said the issue was particularly acute among lawyers, who have been debating the value and the dangers of A.I. software like ChatGPT, as well as the need to verify whatever information it provides.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The discussion now among the bar is how to avoid exactly what this case describes,” Mr. Gillers said. “You cannot just take the output and cut and paste it into your court filings.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The real-life case of Roberto Mata v. Avianca Inc. shows that white-collar professions may have at least a little time left before the robots take over.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It began when Mr. Mata was a passenger on Avianca Flight 670 from El Salvador to New York on Aug. 27, 2019, when an airline employee bonked him with the serving cart, according to the lawsuit. After Mr. Mata sued, the airline filed papers asking that the case be dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In a brief filed in March, Mr. Mata’s lawyers said the lawsuit should continue, bolstering their argument with references and quotes from the many court decisions that have since been debunked.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Soon, Avianca’s lawyers wrote to Judge Castel, saying they were unable to find the cases that were cited in the brief.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">When it came to Varghese v. China Southern Airlines, they said they had “not been able to locate this case by caption or citation, nor any case bearing any resemblance to it.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">They pointed to a lengthy quote from the purported Varghese decision contained in the brief. “The undersigned has not been able to locate this quotation, nor anything like it in any case,” Avianca’s lawyers wrote.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Indeed, the lawyers added, the quotation, which came from Varghese itself, cited something called Zicherman v. Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., an opinion purportedly handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in 2008. They said they could not find that, either.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Judge Castel ordered Mr. Mata’s attorneys to provide copies of the opinions referred to in their brief. The lawyers submitted a compendium of eight; in most cases, they listed the court and judges who issued them, the docket numbers and dates.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The copy of the supposed Varghese decision, for example, is six pages long and says it was written by a member of a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit. But Avianca’s lawyers told the judge that they could not find that opinion, or the others, on court dockets or legal databases.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Bart Banino, a lawyer for Avianca, said that his firm, Condon &amp; Forsyth, specialized in aviation law and that its lawyers could tell the cases in the brief were not real. He added that they had an inkling a chatbot might have been involved.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Schwartz did not respond to a message seeking comment, nor did Peter LoDuca, another lawyer at the firm, whose name appeared on the brief.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. LoDuca said in an affidavit this week that he did not conduct any of the research in question, and that he had “no reason to doubt the sincerity” of Mr. Schwartz’s work or the authenticity of the opinions.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/technology/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-bing-bard-llm.html#" title="">ChatGPT</a> generates realistic responses by making guesses about which fragments of text should follow other sequences, based on a statistical model that has ingested billions of examples of text pulled from all over the internet. In Mr. Mata’s case, the program appears to have discerned the labyrinthine framework of a written legal argument, but has populated it with names and facts from a bouillabaisse of existing cases.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Judge Castel, in his order calling for a hearing, suggested that he had made his own inquiry. He wrote that the clerk of the 11th Circuit had confirmed that the docket number printed on the purported Varghese opinion was connected to an entirely different case.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Calling the opinion “bogus,” Judge Castel noted that it contained internal citations and quotes that, in turn, were nonexistent. He said that five of the other decisions submitted by Mr. Mata’s lawyers also appeared to be fake.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">On Thursday, Mr. Mata’s lawyers offered affidavits containing their version of what had happened.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Schwartz wrote that he had originally filed Mr. Mata’s lawsuit in state court, but after the airline had it transferred to Manhattan’s federal court, where Mr. Schwartz is not admitted to practice, one of his colleagues, Mr. LoDuca, became the attorney of record. Mr. Schwartz said he had continued to do the legal research, in which Mr. LoDuca had no role.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Schwartz said that he had consulted ChatGPT “to supplement” his own work and that, “in consultation” with it, found and cited the half-dozen nonexistent cases. He said ChatGPT had provided reassurances.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

Was this you @icedquinn ?

@niconiconi

My banking subroutine returned a nyan value. Should I meow or submit a purr request?

@hackernews@die-partei.social

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Some tech companies are in “Glassdoor crisis management mode” after layoffs.
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Glassdoor will remove reviews that violate its community guidelines, or terms of use.
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Paying customers seem to get priority in acting on flagged reviews.
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There is no way to pressure Glassdoor to remove any single review.
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Glassdoor is pretty good at reducing spamming
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Companies encouraging staff to leave more positive reviews is a common way to increase the score. Glassdoor itself naturally encourages companies to have more employees add reviews in order to combat negative reviews. In the article “I'm an employer. What can I do about negative reviews on Glassdoor?” the company outlines 4 steps:

Flag reviews. Glassdoor validates if they break its terms and conditions or community guidelines. If they do, they need to be removed.

Respond to them. Responses are shown under the review.

Post more reviews. Glassdoor provides several templates about how employers can do this.

Take legal action. This is always a possibility, but is the most time-consuming approach and the outcome of legal proceedings is uncertain

@hackernews@die-partei.social

Tree of Thoughts (ToT) is an all-new powerful and flexible algorithm that advances model reasoning by a whopping 70%. This is an plug in and play verision, connect your own models and enjoy superintelligence!

@hackernews@die-partei.social

Found a new font for you @nyx

"Once we come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a power is radiated to that point with creative nature and demonstrative abilities, we will think more carefully, more constructively and more efficiently." H. Spencer Lewis

"As long as we continue to ignore our divine side and the Divine Wisdom and highly specialized faculties and abilities we have, as long as we refuse to use them or exercise them, we will remain in all of our mental and worldly affairs, nothing more than creatures of the animal kingdom. Religions say we should put our faith in God, but as Rosicrucians, we say that we should put our faith in the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Powers that we all possess and which reside within each of us and remain more or less undeveloped in all human beings." H. Spencer Lewis

#rosicrucian #rosicrucianism

@QuestingJC@dice.camp

Slightly off topic...

@MagicLike @kura

Your heart is in the cards.

@LouisIngenthron

Very simple principles go a long ways in many aspects of trade and industry at large.

-The easier(more simple) it is to trade(buy, sell, reallocate) things, the more you will see if it(more business, faster logistics, etc).

Being able to shovel quality products and services out has been around since before the industrial revolution. If you really want to succeed, you have to be able to consider each step of the rhetorical ladder you own(being the company) as much as you would an actual ladder.

@joao @blacklight

Those who win will cease to exist for all those who lose will know of- if at all.

@LouisIngenthron

My only guess would have to be some sort of contract requirements pertaining to insurance, inventory, liability, etc.

Smaller logistics companies probably will do it for less cost because not much is being asked in terms of guarantee and shipping insurance.

Overall, sounds like bad management Magic Leap's side of things.

@LouisIngenthron

I don't get the context.

@joao @blacklight

My privacy is safe and yours isn't. I'm a good guy and you're not? Some bizarre rational like that?