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@arstechnica '... he asked the AI tool whether Varghese is a real case. ChatGPT answered that it "is a real case" ... When asked if the other cases provided by ChatGPT are fake, it answered, "No, the other cases I provided are real and can be found in reputable legal databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw." '

If accurate, to me this illustrates the core of the issue with many people's use of so-called tools: this lawyer bought the hype that these are verging on human-like intelligence and could understand and answer his question, while in reality they were only constructing a statistically probable sequence of words that might be written in response to such a query, with no relationship to the facts of the matter.

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