Happy #LawyerCat day for all who celebrate!! Today is the 2nd anniversary of Lawyercat. To celebrate, here is the full and complete hearing from start to finish, with a few seconds at the end that you haven't seen! For the next year, may you all be here live and #NotaCat.
Rmember my compliment of A.I. earlier? I take it back.
Prompt: "Take this ghost and dress it as me based on what you know about me" (blank ghost in 1st comment)
Results (All it knows is apparently "West Texas judge"):
1 (left) Chatgpt
2. (middle) Muse
3. (right) Grok (srsly??)
Wow this is interesting! Thanks to a kind follower who used THEIR ChatGPT account and got THIS result! I had no idea how different the results could be from different accounts.
A.I. is getting better and better. In addition to huge leaps forward in administrative and integration abilities over the last few months, the video generation quality is incredible. Check this out! (h/t insta @pacs_wm)
As predicted, the sentence in this case was reversed by the Arizona Court of Appeals. The Court held that "the judge's consideration of the AI video so prejudiced Horcasitas as to render the sentencing procedure fundamentally unfair."
Arizona court allows AI generated video of deceased manslaughter victim to serve as family's victim impact statement at trial of his killer. Avatar recited words written by surviving sister. No one objected and the judge commented on it's impact.
npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-6464…
Much #lawtwitter chatter this week about the foamboard shown to Jack Smith, attempting a "gotcha" with incorrect information. Shocking, but this sort of thing happens in litigation more often than you might expect. Read on for an amazing example from my personal experience: (1/7)
After what felt an eternity watching her stare into the frozen abyss, she put the page down and said, sweetly, "So anyway..." and moved on to a different topic. Her whole case was based on the criminal history report of a different person who happened to have the same name. (6/
Needless to say, they lost the hearing. It was a undoubtedly a humiliating moment for the lawyer. She'd built toward an Oscar-worthy gotcha moment that instead imploded most spectacularly. Always do your homework, because if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. (7/🧵)
The latest version of chatGPT is forcing unnecessary interactions. Rather than fulfilling the prompt, it routinely responds and forces a second instruction before answering. Is this an intentional business practice designed to inflate interaction numbers? (And why the 👍🏻??)