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A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: Gpt-3 And The Practice Of Law, Amy B. Cyphert
A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: Gpt-3 And The Practice Of Law, Amy B. Cyphert
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Artificial intelligence tools can now “write” in such a sophisticated manner that they fool people into believing that a human wrote the text. None are better at writing than GPT-3, released in 2020 for beta testing and coming to commercial markets in 2021. GPT-3 was trained on a massive dataset that included scrapes of language from sources ranging from the NYTimes to Reddit boards. And so, it comes as no surprise that researchers have already documented incidences of bias where GPT-3 spews toxic language. But because GPT-3 is so good at “writing,” and can be easily trained to write in …
Casebooks, Bias, And Information Literacy—Do Law Librarians Have A Duty?, Kathleen Fletcher
Casebooks, Bias, And Information Literacy—Do Law Librarians Have A Duty?, Kathleen Fletcher
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The third principle of the American Association of Law Libraries’ Principles and Standards for Legal Research Competencies states, “A successful researcher critically evaluates information.” This evaluation includes evaluating legal information of material under criteria of “authority, credibility, currency, authenticity, relevance, and bias. ”Does this standard include information contained in legal casebooks? This article’s goal is to show examples of case treatment in casebooks in Constitutional Law, Property, and Civil Procedure which demonstrate authors’ biases in their selection and editing of cases. Under the AALL standards and the ACRL Standards and Framework for Information literacy, librarians should teach students how to …