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Comment $1,000 a day? Sounds like a fee. (Score 2) 27

In many California cities, it costs almost that much just for a permit to have amplified sound at an outdoor concert for a few hours, on top of the venue fees. $1,000 a day for public advertising is priced like a fee, so of course they treat it like a fee. $100k per day would shut that down.

Comment Re:did it tell them to sacrifice their first born (Score 1) 88

Christianity really wants to be monotheistic, so the Jewish god is the Christian god, his son is really himself, and there's this ghost involved too, but it is also the same. Not *the same* of course, they kicked a dude out for saying that, but the same. Oh, and don't say that what Jesus said is incompatible with what that god guy said, because that got another dude kicked out.

Submission + - Judge Sanctions Lawyers Defending Alabama's Prison System For Using ChatGPT (apnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco publicly reprimanded three lawyers with Butler Snow, the law firm hired to defend Alabama and other jurisdictions in lawsuits against their prison systems. The order sanctioned William R. Lunsford, the head of the firm division that handles prison litigation, along with Matthew B. Reeves and William J. Cranford. “Fabricating legal authority is serious misconduct that demands a serious sanction,” Manasco wrote in the Wednesday sanctions order.

Manasco removed the three from participating in the case where the false citations were filed and directed them to share the sanctions order with clients, opposing lawyers and judges in all of their other cases. She also referred the matter to the Alabama State Bar for possible disciplinary action. [...] “In simpler terms, the citations were completely made up,” Manasco wrote. She added that using the citations without verifying their accuracy was “recklessness in the extreme.” The filings in question were made in a lawsuit filed by an inmate who was stabbed on multiple occasions at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County. The lawsuit alleges that prison officials are failing to keep inmates safe.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 64

You're nicely illustrating the issue with AI reasoning. Humans "reason" mostly by deciding what they believe then coming up with truthy stories to support that belief. When confronted with actual conflicting evidence or proper reasoning to the contrary, they make up more stories to "rationalize" it, or, that failing, make excuses.

The reasoning systems are generally made up of an LLM, a bunch of more general purpose neural network layers, and some conventional logic systems. The neural network part comes up with what it thinks is true based on its training, tries to get its logic systems to support it, and, as we've seen, often ignores the result when it doesn't like it.

The problem with AI "reasoning" is that it's a pretty good copy of human "reasoning."

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