Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

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14. Sigh. It was already obvious a few years ago that use of generative AI was dumbing users down and

encouraging cheating. (And OpenAI's Sam Altman was already saying a few years ago that using AI shouldn't be considered cheating.)

No one should be using generative AI tools for any reason. They're always unethical to use, and always flawed tech that can hallucinate at any time. The AI resultsare always just imitation knowledge and accomplishment. And that's true whether the genAI tools are generating text, images, video, music or code.

Every single use of them is cheating or fraud, in a way. Every single use of them can result in errors.

Every single use of them is enabled by the initial theft of the world's intellectual property to train the AI, and people are setting concern about ethics aside when they use gen AI.

But people are still tempted to use genAI tools because they think offering AI results as their own work makes them seem smarter or more talented than they are. They're still tempted to use AI because it saves time - at least if they don't check the results. They often don't, and the more they rely on AI, the less likely they are to check results.

As long as society treats using this flawed, unethical tech as a good thing, we're going to see this sort of cheating and stupidity.

GenAI is fundamentally unethical and flawed and hurts both users and those who are expected to treat AI use and AI results as valuable.