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The Hallucinations Are Winning
Season 1 · Episode 422

The Hallucinations Are Winning

Legal Talk Network - Law News and Legal Topics

July 9, 202540m 35s

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Show Notes

Law firm mergers and John Roberts brags for the crowd.

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Has the era of the mid-sized firm come to an end? Probably not, but with increasing nationalization and the financial pressures that go along with it, mid-sized firms are consolidating and a valuable segment (and price point!) may be lost. Lawyers have faced a steady stream of sanctions for citing fake cases generated by AI, but now a judge officially blessed an order based on AI-hallucinated cases as a critical firewall in the war against machine slop is breached. While AI holds out promise for access to justice, the risk of a lawless free-for-all looms. Speaking of lawless free-for-alls, the Chief Justice explains that he doesn't care about substantive criticism of the Court because he has votes and the critics don't.

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