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may sometimes tell you what you want to hear, and sometimes it may share outright fabrications (called hallucinations). Just like a human, it might slip and share something you didn’t intend to be shared. ChatGPT’s responses are very confident and persuasive. As Ed Walters, co-founder of Fastcase who also taught “The Law of Robots” at Georgetown University Law Center, says, “The answers are often totally wrong, but highly convincing.” Some lawyers will learn of that credibility issue and decide never to use ChatGPT or any other AI. That is probably not the correct lesson, as AI tools will be increas ingly hard to avoid and will pro vide many time-saving benefits in the very near future. There are many positive ways that these tools can be used today, and there will be hundreds more. For example, you are traveling with your family, and an auto mobile breakdown strands you for the day in a city you never intended to visit. A quick query on the ChatGPT app on your phone for the top 10 things to do in that city will produce a detailed list with descriptions. It is probably quite accurate. But if not, so what? The point isn’t whether some experienced, objective human travel expert might disagree with some suggestions. The point is

out), and it cannot be disputed that there was a fair amount of garbage on the internet by 2021. ChatGPT is aware of the cur rent date based on the date and time stamp of your query, and it sometimes refers to events that took place post-September 2021, possibly based on others’ queries. Unanswered questions and appar ent inconsistencies such as these are why many IT professionals call ChatGPT a “black box.” Since the November 2022 introduction, there have been many new products incorporating ChatGPT. It set a record by amass ing 100 million monthly active users within two months (for com parison purposes, TikTok required nine months and Instagram more than two years to reach that mark). This reaction was caused by how well the product performed. It is simply stunning. Interacting with a chatbot that chats with you conversationally like another human and has vast amounts of accurate data to use is impres sive. The speed and clarity of its responses are amazing. OF COURSE, THERE ARE LIES AND HALLUCINATIONS This ChatGPT displays many human-like traits. Not only will it answer your questions easily and quickly, but like a human friend, it

Author’s Note: The more you think you are not interested in this subject, the more you need to read this article. IN NOVEMBER 2022, OPENAI released ChatGPT. ChatGPT, along with other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, has dominated the conversation about cutting-edge technology and legal technology tools during 2023. The reactions have ranged from “the most enter taining thing on the internet” to an incredible new tool that will change society in a positive way to a corporate tool that will allow companies to be more efficient and profitable (often by a reduc tion in workforce) to a potentially dangerous development, that if allowed to expand unchecked without regulatory safeguards, could lead to global instability and, possibly, an extinction event. To summarize, on the internet hyperbole scale, predictions about ChatGPT’s impact range from Nirvana to Armageddon. Whatever happens will likely be between these two extremes. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) AI. This means its training involved digesting almost everything on the internet, including Wikipedia and many books, as of September 2021. An often-used cliche among program mers is GIGO (garbage in, garbage

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