Extract from Umair Muhajir’s article “Reality Check: How to Navigate AI Hallucinations”
Unless you’ve been under a rock the last two years, it’s hard to escape news about generative AI hallucination horror stories in the legal industry. And perhaps none have been more widely reported than the troubles of the attorneys in New York and Boston who relied on ChatGPT for legal research, only to learn that the judges in their respective cases couldn’t find some of the caselaw – because it didn’t exist.
The AI, in short, had hallucinated.
As generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, or GenAI) becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives and workflows, follow these tips to spot AI hallucinations and ensure the information you receive from GenAI is reliable and trustworthy.
Laying the table: different types of AI
GenAI has become a bit of a catch-all term, but it’s really the latest in a series of types of AI, including a couple we’re all so familiar with in the legal and ediscovery industries we probably don’t even think of them as AI
