STANFORD PROFESSOR SUNK FOR RELYING ON AI IN EXPERT REPORT: And its a Reminder for EVERYONE in the Practice of Law

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“If you are a lawyer that relies on AI for anything you are a failure as an attorney.”

Always opinionated is the Czar…

Strong words. But those are my words.

And it is an important reminder.

Generative AI has no place in the practice of law. At least not yet.

The day may come when that is no longer true, but as of today anyone relying on Chat GPT or anything remotely similar to prepare briefs, analyze cases, write blogs… whatever. You’re a failure. And you don’t deserve to be part of this profession.

Just my opinion of course.

But did you catch the story of the Stanford *cough* professor who was paid $600.00 an hour to write a report in litigation and used AI to do it?

His report apparently cited to two papers as authority that did not actually exist.

The opposing attorney in the case argued: “[t]he citation bears the hallmarks of being an artificial intelligence (AI) ‘hallucination,’ suggesting that at least the citation was generated by a large language model like ChatGPT,” Bednarz wrote. “Plaintiffs do not know how this hallucination wound up in Hancock’s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question, especially when much of the commentary contains no methodology or analytic logic whatsoever.”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-professor-lying-and-technology-19937258.php

Sigh.

Ironically, the expert report was submitted to support a ban on deepfakes in social media. I don’t even know what to say about that.

But there are a few take aways here:

  1. Stanford. ha.
  2. AI. ha.

Be sure to hire yourself REAL LAWYERS. The type who don’t use AI in some pathetic effort to maximize profit or imagine it will somehow make them more efficient.

Ridiculous. Knowledge. Hard work. Expertise. These things lead to efficiency. They also lead to higher rates.

Apropos.

LAST REMINDER: Troutman Amin, LLP Rates Go UP January 1, 2025 and I am Serious

Love you all (even the Stanford people, now that the Big Game is over.)

 

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

1 Comment

  1. AI agrees., lawyers should hire experts. Real experts. Good experts. Experts who don’t make stuff up. (Article: Intrinsic value of using experts in high value disputes, Natural History Magazine, June 6, 1978)

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