OK, I'll admit it. I get amusement from going into HackerNews comment sections to see how the obligate AI-boosters are defending the AI's latest failure when being used as a lazy replacement for cognition. It's astonishing to me that 3M paid someone $90k to provide 'vibe testimony'.

People need to be held in contempt if there's any AI hallucinations in their filings.

“Show me how the conclusion I’m starting with is correct.”

I imagine being an expert witness is pretty lucrative in the right industry. You wouldn't need to do anything else, once you had your bona fides and a few connections to start. It can be done by video, you could do it from anywhere in the world. Say, your five-star hotel room in France.

475$ an hour? Fucking hell, for that money I'll write any report to whitewash you and I won't make it apparent that I'm using AI to talk about shit I have no idea about, AND I'll make sure that if I do use AI to write the whole thing then it won't be traced back to me by my ChatGPT history lmao

Without paywall

(Semi) covert was of using AI, especially like this, should be regarded as a criminal offense ending in jail time

i suspect, shit like this is going to prompt some idiotic supreme court verdict is going to be set in stone for the next 10 years. example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson
if its not a guarenteed win, then dont push it to supreme court level. the consequences are severe for everyone.

Expert witnesses seem to be fake more often than not.

Soft paywall

If you can make an "expert report" just with using AI, I guess there is no more need for experts. I is not a expert but I wrot dis my selph.

I feel like the most boomer of all boomer when I read that people use chatbots to write shit for them. Like I can't imagine this level of stupid. When I want to write something I write it.

Granted I'm skilled at it, read a lot of books and always got the highest scores in school for reading related subjects. Not coming down on an ESL person using it...but theres better options.

3M paid Knighthawk Engineering roughly $90,000 for its analysis, and a filing by 3M shows that Autenrieth’s rate was $475 per hour.

lol

Is AI qualified for 1st amendment protection?