Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

— Tom Stoppard, born on tis date in 1937

“You Hurt My Feelings” is a good Hansonian movie about how most people are mediocre at their jobs, and how society deals with that fact, and what happens when those protective mechanisms break down.  The starring role of Julia Louise-Dreyfus also makes for good meta-commentary on Seinfeld, a show where the characters speak the brutal, honest truth to each other.

Europe experiences significant transport of smoke from Canada wildfires Copernicus

Twitter Puts 'Temporary Limits' On Number Of Posts That Users Can Read

Owner Elon Musk said the restrictions were introduced to "address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation."

Gladys Berejiklian and the ICAC tapes: we’ve obtained new phone intercepts between Maguire and Berejiklian never played at ICAC’s public inquiry. You can listen to them here, along with all the key calls heard at ICAC

Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research - these chatbots are bald-faced liars that pull facts out of thin air. “In light of recent events, I feel obliged to write this post, if only to create an internet breadcrumb upon which over-caffeinated lawyers hellbent on cutting legal research corners might stumble. Are you one of those lawyers? Are you pressed for time with a looming deadline for a responsive motion? Did you hear about this thing called ChatGPT, and now you’re wondering if it will conduct legal research and write a complex brief for you? Did you subsequently sign up for a free Open AI ChatGPT account, and after testing it out with a few simple legal questions, are ready to submit a query asking it to draft a lengthy brief? If you’re guilty as charged, and you’ve caught the ChatGPT fever, listen closely. No, I mean really listen. Move closer to your screen. Even closer. Closer still. Perfect…”

THE BIG QUESTION IS, DOES IT BELONG ON PIZZA?  Uncovering the Truth About Pineapple

 Thomson Reuters to acquire Casetext Generative AI Capability – Build and Expands Addressable Market Potential

 “Casetext is a leading provider of AI powered tools that empower legal professionals to work more efficiently and
provide higher-quality representation to their clients:

• Casetext launched CoCounsel, a Generative AI powered legal AI assistant, on March 1, 2023
• CoCounsel will accelerate our ability to bring Generative AI capabilities to our portfolio and markets
• Marrying CoCounsel’s technology with TR’s authoritative content and insights to bring significant productivity
  benefits for the legal industry..”

 Do Wuhan Institute of Virology Scientists Often Fall from the Building’s Roof? “Oh, I’m sure he was just checking out the view and leaned over too far. I would say that this Russian habit of important people falling out of windows must be contagious, but as we know, the Chinese government is habitually reluctant to label anything as contagious.”

SEX, MONEY, AND ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: “Turner et al. found that wives’ report of economic distress was directly related to their rejection of their partner’s sexual advances, but this association was not found for husbands.”

Here, from Orders of the Retina (1982), is a favorite Disch poem, “What to Accept”:

 

“The fact of mountains. The actuality

Of any stone – by kicking, if necessary.

The need to ignore stupid people,

While retraining one’s natural impulse

To murder them. The change from your dollar,

Be it no more than a penny,

For without a pretense of universal penury

There can be no honor between rich and poor.

Love, unconditionally, or until proven false.

The inevitability of cancer and/or

Heart disease. The dialogue as written,

Once you’ve taken the role. Failure,

Gracefully. Any hospitality

You’re willing to return. The air

Each city offers you to breathe.

The latest hit. Assistance.

All accidents. The end.”

Animating Irony: The Force of Irony in Online and Offline Political Movements Public Culture. Hmm

The Conspiratorial Mind: A Meta-Analytic Review of Motivational and Personological Correlates Psychological Bulletin

Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 Nature

Abusive Men Describe the Benefits of ViolenceVoice Mail.

DECOUPLING: US, Dutch Set to Hit China’s Chipmakers With One-Two Punch.

The Dutch government plans to announce new regulations on Friday with a licensing requirement for the top tier of ASML’S second-best product line, deep ultra violet (DUV) semiconductor equipment. ASML’s most sophisticated machines — extreme ultraviolent “EUV” lithography machines — are already restricted, and have never been shipped to China.

ASML said in March it expects the Dutch regulations to affect its TWINSCAN NXT:2000i and more sophisticated models.

But the company’s older DUV models, like one called the TWINSCAN NXT:1980Di, could also be kept from about six Chinese facilities by the U.S. The facilities are expected to be identified in a new U.S. rule that will allow the U.S. to restrict foreign equipment with even a small percentage of U.S. parts to those sites, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to speak publicly.

The new Dutch regulations will not take effect immediately, sources said, with one person expecting the effective date to be September, two months after publication.

The planned U.S. rule, which sources said may be published by late July, will require licenses to export equipment to about a half dozen Chinese facilities, including a fab operated by SMIC, China’s largest chipmaker, the person familiar with the U.S. plans, said. Licenses to ship the equipment to those facilities will likely be denied, the person said.

Xi’s policy of antagonizing everybody is going swimmingly.