Interesting Links for 08-06-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Summarising the last few days in American politics

(tags:USA politics EpicWTF republicans )

2. UK — High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else

(tags:UK law ai )

3. After Pornhub left France, Proton VPN saw a 1,000% surge in minutes

(tags:VPN censorship porn France )

4. Reform UK doesn't know how government spending works

(tags:UK bureaucracy politics )

Comments

Legal ChatGPT

[rhythmaning]

I'm amazed lawyers keep using generative AI as research (rather than, say, rewriting their own research).

Indeed, I'm amazed anyone uses AI in this way when it has been proven to make stuff up.

Re: Legal ChatGPT

[redbird]

And they keep doing it despite the repeated news stories about American lawyers getting caught doing this.

It may take this sort of meaningful sanctions against the lawyers to stop them. My hunch is that one reason this keeps happening in the US is that judges don't want to punish clients for misdeeds by their lawyers, who the client assumed would get the basics right. If I'm hiring a lawyer, I might check that they're licensed to practice in Massachusetts, but there's no real way to be sure they won't pull this sort of crap.

I was surprised, a few days ago, to see an ad in the subway for an AI product that showed two steps: "AI drafts brief" and "brief accepted," with no mention of a human even looking at the draft.

[ckd]

I strongly suspect Reform UK doesn't know how government anything works.