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Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don't get paid enough, apparently

Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount

https://www.techspot.com/news/102018-judge-cuts-law-firm-legal-bill-half-after.html

New York City-based Cuddy Law Firm used ChatGPT to support its application for the massive fees the company was charging for a recently won trial.

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the_kung_fu_emu

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Reminds me of using graphing calculators back in highschool. "Can we use it on the test?" "Sure! But remember, it will only help you if you know how to check your work and bother to do so." Automating anything blindly carries the risk of unending buckets of water or a universe of paperclips. Trouble is, it seems like a fair number of folks are confusing automation with delegation.

Corkyskog

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Oh, we weren't allowed to use them, or at least our own because you could go into the programming module and write yourself notes and make a cheat sheet.

doofusmagoo

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Automating anything blindly carries the risk of unending buckets of water or a universe of paperclips.

Nutty -- I was just chewing on that similarity myself.