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Another thread where the poster linked to the relevant Court .pdf's:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092914

Particularly relevant is the affidavit in which the lawyer tries to explain to the Court what happened:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...



Hahaha that second link is brilliant.

"Hm, maybe I should double check ChatGPTs output... Hey, ChatGPT, does your output make sense?" - "Yeah, my output definitely makes sense". "Are you sure?" - "Yeah".

Well, then.


>Mr. Schwartz said that he had never used ChatGPT, and “therefore was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false.”

Why did he think it was true, if he had never used it before then?

"I found it online" levels of competence here.


People are scarily willing to take eloquent text on trust if it says something that benefits them and sounds plausible.

The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that it sounds like a smart adult that people want to give the benefit of the doubt because it agrees with them a lot instead of like a child that people would be more wary of trusting blindly.


This willingness most people show to jump on the bandwagon when hearing confident sounding language actually explains a lot of societal problems. Also a lot of workplace dynamics, and the career of a lot of very powerful and rich people.




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