b'CONSTRUCTION PRIORITIES: TECHNOLOGYcontradiction, but it isnt, he adds,price for trusting AI-generated content.presenting fictitious lawsuits in apointing out that he frequently uses toolsA 29-year-old Colorado Springs lawyerlegal brief.like ChatGPT to generate documents, butnamed Zachariah Crabill was fired when never without checking them carefully. a judge noticed that some of the lawsuitsIn New York, 30-year veteran Steven A. mentioned in a legal motion he hadSchwartz was found to have assembled To illustrate, around 2023, news storiessubmitted simply did not exist. In Losa brief containing references to six began to emerge from the legal worldAngeles, a young lawyer resigned afternonexistent cases, including quotations about overworked lawyers paying a steephis Dennis Block law firm was fined forfrom imaginary sources. And in Vancouver, lawyer Chong Ke submitted bogus examples of previous case law in a child custody case. All of them had used ChatGPT to save time while drafting their work.AIs capacity to hallucinate makes it a dangerous tool when human reputations are on the line. AI demos really well, but it suffers from complexitywhich is why we thought wed have full driverless vehicles in 2019, says Hugh Seaton, CEO of The Link.ai, who is based in Austin, Texas.Seaton is a tech expert with an eclectic background that includes work in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China and several years with the Construction Specifications Institute in the U.S. He is a cofounder of the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon; his current project, The Link.ai, is a startup that streamlines the creation 22Quarter 42024 BUILDERSDIGEST'