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  1. A quotation from The Bible

    Finally, stick to the advice your own heart gives you,
       no one can be truer to you than that;
    since a man’s soul often forewarns him better
       than seven watchmen perched on a watchtower.
     
    [καὶ βουλὴν καρδίας στῆσον,
       οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν σοι πιστότερος αὐτῆς·
    ψυχὴ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς ἀπαγγέλλειν ἐνίοτε εἴωθεν
       ἢ ἑπτὰ σκοποὶ ἐπὶ μετεώρου καθήμενοι ἐπὶ σκοπῆς.]

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 37:13ff (Sir 37:13–14) [JB (1966)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/11174/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #sirach #ecclesiasticus #apocrypha #advice #conscience #counsel #judgment #selfconfidence #selfguidance #selftrust #warning #wisdom

  2. But I've seen some outside of an educational context as well. This one is absolutely horrific. It's another case of a #lawyer using an LLM to generate #court filings of one type or another, without even checking its output to see if the brief makes sense, cites actual case #law, etc.

    This is a #sanctions order from a #judge in this particular case. It is gripping reading.
    cases.justia.com/federal/distr

    In short: the lawyer was caught submitting briefs with "hallucinated" #citations, either to cases that did not exist, or to cases that were unrelated to the legal point the citation was being used to uphold. An opposing #counsel contacted their firm about such an incorrect citation, and the firm did some cleanup, did some continuing legal education, instituted an "AI" policy, instructed the #attorney about what was forbidden, etc. And then that attorney ... just kept on doing it. Even after judges started noticing problems in submissions, this lawyer just kept doing it.

    It was so bad that it basically caused the #implosion of the law firm.

    Incredible.

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