The Leading Edge of a Massive Future Problem

[Briar Lee]

Yesterday my wife and I visited Kansas City and our Google AI on our phones was a wonderful help in navigating the sights and explaining them.

All the way up and back the cable television news entertainment channel we favor ran nothing but scammy advisements for certified psychics, call this number to donate your car for the precious children, save a starving child, save a starving dog, find tax relief, pay $29 a month for your own Human Resources officer, get out of your time share, etc., etc., etc.

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AI Overview

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Multiple "Cars for Kids" charities exist, and their legitimacy varies significantly
. The most well-known, Kars4Kids (with a 'K'), is widely criticized by charity watchdogs for misleading donors and high overhead costs.
Kars4Kids (with a 'K')
This is a national car donation program and is a legally registered 501(c)(3) charity. However, it faces consistent criticism from independent charity evaluators:

• Misleading advertising: Kars4Kids' catchy jingle and ads are heavily criticized for failing to disclose that its programs primarily serve Orthodox Jewish youth and families.
• High fundraising costs: CharityWatch found that in 2023, Kars4Kids spent $48 to raise every $100. In contrast, many highly-rated charities have fundraising costs below 10 cents per dollar.
• High overhead: In 2023, Kars4Kids spent 59% of its expenses on overhead and only 41% on programs.
• Affiliation with Oorah: Most of the money raised by Kars4Kids is transferred to its sister charity, Oorah, which focuses on religious outreach programs for Jewish children.
• Poor ratings: Leading charity evaluators give Kars4Kids low ratings. In 2024, Charity Navigator gave it a 2-star rating, and CharityWatch gave it a D rating.

America Can Cars for Kids
This is a separate, Texas-based charity associated with America Can Academies, which focuses on helping at-risk youth earn a high school diploma. It has been involved in trademark disputes with Kars4Kids. In 2024, Charity Navigator rated this charity at 1-star, noting a low Accountability and Finance score.
How to protect yourself
Before donating a vehicle, take these steps to ensure your donation goes to a trustworthy organization:

• Research the specific name: The use of similar names like "Kars4Kids" and "Cars for Kids" is intentionally confusing. Use the exact name and check the charity's legal filings to confirm you're dealing with the correct one.
• Consult charity watchdogs: Check the ratings of any charity with independent evaluators like Charity Navigator and CharityWatch. These sites provide details on financial efficiency and transparency.
• Look for local options: Consider donating your car to a trusted local charity, like a church, school, or community organization, to ensure your contribution benefits your community directly.

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Maybe somebody will put a bullshit filter on all the hucksterism on the internet and cable shows.

They could program an AI Walter Cronkite, you know?

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[doug535]

I hear that Brawndo is all we really need.

Its got electrolytes!

 

[Pypkė]

So who's to blame here? The AI for having faulty data or the lazy-ass reporter for passing along the faulty data?

It's the digital nomads who want to spend their days on the Spanish Riviera while cranking out mediocre content to support their lifestyle.

 

[Briar Lee]

As my wife got tired, we ordered food from Char Bar on Westport and a former neighborhood kid (now 42) called out my name as I walked in to get it, and I commented on his snorkel truck, he’s earned as a regional sales rep from the Belgians who own Budweiser.





He was about 12 when I fell out of my boat in the middle of a forty acre lake and swam to the shore as he and his parents watched in horror.

And I wondered how long Frank and Bob’s Auto Service had been there—-

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As we drove down past the fountains of the Country Club Plaza to Loose Park I said if the rest of Kansas City has improved as much as the former honky tonks and dives of the Westport neighborhood it ought to be safe to eat supper at Loose Park, and she said isn’t that sort of a racist statement, and I replied I’m 100% certain we aren’t in Kansas anymore, Toto.


About that time she said —oooo— look—-quick—-Winston Churchill and Clementine!

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I said do you want to see that, and she said after my ablation surgery of my back I sure do. Let’s come back and ride the trolley when I can walk further. Maybe one of those beautiful new busses, or restored trolley cars.

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Loose Park was as safe as Dimmit Memoral Park in Humansville was fifty five years ago, before the government stopped subsiding single man dairy operations.

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As we left, she said as my navigator I order you to find me a Trader Joe’s, and I said so long as you stay in formation here on Ward Parkway and don’t straggle.

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As I gawked around the cleanest and nicest and best grocery store I’d seen since Willie and Gladys Overshiner’s in Humansville fifty or sixty years ago, there were a half a dozen workers doing nothing but stocking the shelves.

My wife asked a worker why, and she smiled and said we sell three or more semi tractor loads of food here every day.

I wandered past a worker stocking booze, and asked aren’t we in Kansas, and she smiled and said 100 yards inside the Missouri line. This Trader Joe’s is the top alcohol seller in the United States.

On the way home it grew dark and my wife pulled into a Quick Trip.

I noticed a sign advertising for Security Officers at $32 an hour to start and $38 an hour regular pay plus vacation time and bonuses.



The city had Ward Parkway all torn up from new construction, as our Garmin Drive 76 guided us back home.

I leaned my seat back and put my earbuds in and selected a blast from my past, the Amazing Rhythm Aces 1975 album.

Life’s Railway to Heaven

It’s been 43 years since the last time I dressed in my UMKC Police Department uniform and patrolled the campus, selected for my Scots Ozark heritage. Back then a huge percentage of South Side officers on the KCPD were from all the little Humansvilles of the Ozarks.

Somebody programmed a lot of us into a computer somewhere and artificial intelligence has purty nert cleaned up Pendergast’s South Side, you know?

Meanwhile back in Cedar County, the good guys are losing ground.

‘We are sweating’: Missouri kindergarten vaccination rates fall below immunity threshold • Missouri Independent

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As I stood outside Trader Joe’s Ward Parkway, I noticed a blue surgical mask on the paved parking lot.

Two different worlds, only two hours apart.

 

[Briar Lee]

With all the promise of multiple blessings that come with the normalization of AI there are also evil, dark risks.

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OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide


OpenAI said it will make changes to ChatGPT to better deal with “sensitive situations,” including for users who express “suicidal intent.”


Earlier on Tuesday, the parents of Adam Raine filed a product liability and wrongful death suit against OpenAI after their son died by suicide at age 16.


"We will keep improving, guided by experts and grounded in responsibility to the people who use our tools," OpenAI wrote.

OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

OpenAI disclosed plans to improve ChatGPT safety for users expressing “suicidal intent.”

www.cnbc.com

—-

Kids have been killing themselves forever, but they don’t need any computerized help.

 

[brian64]

An interesting wrinkle in this AI stuff...I'm guessing YT is doing this to "train" AI to perform essentially real-time edits as videos are posted. Doesn't take much imagination to understand why that would be desired.

YouTube Faces Backlash for Quietly Using AI to Alter Shorts Without Creator Consent

The edits feel less like enhancements and more like reminders that AI is now part of the creative process, whether you asked for it or not.

The alterations are subtle enough to go unnoticed in isolation, but side-by-side comparisons have revealed inconsistencies that many say make their videos feel unnatural or artificial.

YouTube Faces Backlash for Quietly Using AI to Alter Shorts Without Creator Consent

The edits feel less like enhancements and more like reminders that AI is now part of the creative process, whether you asked for it or not.

reclaimthenet.org

 

[georged]

An interesting wrinkle in this AI stuff...I'm guessing YT is doing this to "train" AI to perform essentially real-time edits as videos are posted. Doesn't take much imagination to understand why that would be desired.

YouTube Faces Backlash for Quietly Using AI to Alter Shorts Without Creator Consent

The edits feel less like enhancements and more like reminders that AI is now part of the creative process, whether you asked for it or not.

The alterations are subtle enough to go unnoticed in isolation, but side-by-side comparisons have revealed inconsistencies that many say make their videos feel unnatural or artificial.

YouTube Faces Backlash for Quietly Using AI to Alter Shorts Without Creator Consent

The edits feel less like enhancements and more like reminders that AI is now part of the creative process, whether you asked for it or not.

reclaimthenet.org

 

[sablebrush52]

With all the promise of multiple blessings that come with the normalization of AI there are also evil, dark risks.

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OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide


OpenAI said it will make changes to ChatGPT to better deal with “sensitive situations,” including for users who express “suicidal intent.”


Earlier on Tuesday, the parents of Adam Raine filed a product liability and wrongful death suit against OpenAI after their son died by suicide at age 16.


"We will keep improving, guided by experts and grounded in responsibility to the people who use our tools," OpenAI wrote.

OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

OpenAI disclosed plans to improve ChatGPT safety for users expressing “suicidal intent.”

www.cnbc.com

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Kids have been killing themselves forever, but they don’t need any computerized help.

What else would OpenAI say, that they screwed up? BTW, so many users bitterly complained about OpenAI's latest release ChatGPT version 5, such that OpenAI was forced to restore access to its earlier versions, after having rescinded it.

AI is based on massive theft of intellectual properties and copyrighted material, along with all of the other materials that they slave waged army scraped.

It's such a faulty technology that the AI search app, engineered by Google, warns me every time that the AI may make mistakes, and boy does it ever!

But, money always, or almost always, trumps any other concern, so get prepared for some major train wrecks.

 

[Pypkė]

It's such a faulty technology that the AI search app, engineered by Google, warns me every time that the AI may make mistakes, and boy does it ever!

I find ChatGPT useful enough to pay the monthly fee to use to use it as an aid to some programming tasks I am working on. An oracle it is not. This product isn't going to replace programmers any time soon if my experience of using ChatGPT offers any insight. ChatGPT made many coding errors that I had to correct. The errors were all because the bot could not grasp context, and while it's solutions (in the form of code snippets) could be run by the interpreter, they didn't quite further my objectives. ChatGPT frequently seemed to forget what was just discussed too, so it was difficult to keep the bot on task and within scope/context of what I was trying to accomplish. The sample code was still useful, but needed a human operator to understand, modify, and apply. A few times the sample code was just trash.

AI is no oracle. I am concerned that people are tempted to treat it like one. Maybe I should ask "the oracle" how I can become independently wealthy before the end of the year and retire early.

 

[Briar Lee]

The market value of Nvidia is nearly 4.3 trillion.



Except for the USA, China, and Germany that value is more than the GDP of any of the globe’s 195 nations.




Now, four point three trillion isn’t what it used to be, but it’s still quite a sum.

The question isn’t whether AI, it’s how do governments regulate it.

 

[ashdigger]

I didn’t read the whole mess, but recently several attorneys and at least one judge are facing sanctions for using AI in briefings, pleadings and decisions.

The problem from what I’ve read and two court hearings I watched (YouTube can be amazing) is that clerks and underlings have used AI without fact checking.

This has resulted in incorrect or nonexistent case data. They refer to these as “hallucinations”

I had a defense case I was assisting with and I watched the bodycam videos, read the entire case file and studied the scene photos.

After I formulated my opinion I fed a little info into Grok3. While the results were fairly good, there was plenty that instantly caught my eye as out of context or too general to be useful.

AI is coming, just don’t forget to use common sense.

Nothing is easy or free.

 

[Briar Lee]

I didn’t read the whole mess, but recently several attorneys and at least one judge are facing sanctions for using AI in briefings, pleadings and decisions.

The problem from what I’ve read and two court hearings I watched (YouTube can be amazing) is that clerks and underlings have used AI without fact checking.

This has resulted in incorrect or nonexistent case data. They refer to these as “hallucinations”

I had a defense case I was assisting with and I watched the bodycam videos, read the entire case file and studied the scene photos.

After I formulated my opinion I fed a little info into Grok3. While the results were fairly good, there was plenty that instantly caught my eye as out of context or too general to be useful.

AI is coming, just don’t forget to use common sense.

Nothing is easy or free.

Forty years ago I borrowed my father in law’s 3/4 ton truck and found a deal on a compete Missouri law library in downtown Kansas City for only $5000 some old lawyer like I am today was selling as he retired. They cost a dollar a pound in 1985 dollars.

$5,000 then is about $15,000 today.



I was glad to get the $15,000 truck ($45,000 today) back to my father in law in as good of shape as I borrowed it, with no rear leaf springs broken. I had five thousand pounds of books on a truck rated at fifteen hundred pounds, and it was severely squatted.

Forty years ago West Publishing had salesmen and I called the closest one and he came to my office to see what updates I needed, and that was another $1,700 ($5,100 today). After the initial upgrade I paid something like $300 ($900 today) monthly and then a big chunk yearly of maybe $1,000 ($3,000 today) when annual updates came out.

In ten years time that library was no longer economically feasible to keep updated. First CD discs and then after Windows 95 digitally online and the young lawyer who bought my office uses my library room with sheer delight to impress his clients he has all those books.

We estimated it would cost a small fortune to have them chopped up and recycled but the recycler said he didn’t accept old law books on site. Too much strain on the grinder truck. If we’d load them on a truck he’d accept them at his permanent site but the cost would be a dollar a pound or thereabouts. Old law books are hard to grind up, I suppose.

They’ll probably be there as long as that office building stands.

Akins v. Adams

Akins v. Adams (Akins v. Adams, 256 Mo. 2, 164 S.W. 603 (Mo. 1914)), filed at Missouri Supreme Court

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I found the case of Akins vs Adams doing my doctoral thesis on Missouri fence law in 1983.

My hard headed great grandfather spent a fortune on lawyers and an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court over a fence line dispute involving 85/100 of an acre worth about five thousand dollars today per acre, and a lot less in 1914, you know?

He had no way to know my father (his unborn grandson) and mother would buy up Akin’s tract in 1948 for $22.50 per acre.

This phone is a decent legal AI search engine.

I preferred hard books, but those days are long gone, forever.

For about thirty years after my library was only for show, whenever I had a chance I’d take kids to my law library and with their parents watching (never in a divorce case—I have some morals) I’d show them my library and get the last Southwest Reporter on the shelf from the middle ninties and sign and date the fly leaf presenting it to them by their name, all in my best cursive handwriting.

Sort of like pebbles cast into the future, was my intent.

Maybe they’ll sit in a law office a century from now.

And my record won’t be all that difficult to look up.

Sing one, Rhonda Vincent

Record Book

 

[Morbius]

Forty years ago I borrowed my father in law’s 3/4 ton truck and found a deal on a compete Missouri law library in downtown Kansas City for only $5000 some old lawyer like I am today was selling as he retired. They cost a dollar a pound in 1985 dollars.

$5,000 then is about $15,000 today.

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I was glad to get the $15,000 truck ($45,000 today) back to my father in law in as good of shape as I borrowed it, with no rear leaf springs broken. I had five thousand pounds of books on a truck rated at fifteen hundred pounds, and it was severely squatted.

Forty years ago West Publishing had salesmen and I called the closest one and he came to my office to see what updates I needed, and that was another $1,700 ($5,100 today). After the initial upgrade I paid something like $300 ($900 today) monthly and then a big chunk yearly of maybe $1,000 ($3,000 today) when annual updates came out.

In ten years time that library was no longer economically feasible to keep updated. First CD discs and then after Windows 95 digitally online and the young lawyer who bought my office uses my library room with sheer delight to impress his clients he has all those books.

We estimated it would cost a small fortune to have them chopped up and recycled but the recycler said he didn’t accept old law books on site. Too much strain on the grinder truck. If we’d load them on a truck he’d accept them at his permanent site but the cost would be a dollar a pound or thereabouts. Old law books are hard to grind up, I suppose.

They’ll probably be there as long as that office building stands.

Akins v. Adams

Akins v. Adams (Akins v. Adams, 256 Mo. 2, 164 S.W. 603 (Mo. 1914)), filed at Missouri Supreme Court

case-law.vlex.com

I found the case of Akins vs Adams doing my doctoral thesis on Missouri fence law in 1983.

My hard headed great grandfather spent a fortune on lawyers and an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court over a fence line dispute involving 85/100 of an acre worth about five thousand dollars today per acre, and a lot less in 1914, you know?

He had no way to know my father (his unborn grandson) and mother would buy up Akin’s tract in 1948 for $22.50 per acre.

This phone is a decent legal AI search engine.

I preferred hard books, but those days are long gone, forever.

For about thirty years after my library was only for show, whenever I had a chance I’d take kids to my law library and with their parents watching (never in a divorce case—I have some morals) I’d show them my library and get the last Southwest Reporter on the shelf from the middle ninties and sign and date the fly leaf presenting it to them by their name, all in my best cursive handwriting.

Sort of like pebbles cast into the future, was my intent.

Maybe they’ll sit in a law office a century from now.

And my record won’t be all that difficult to look up.

Sing one, Rhonda Vincent

Record Book

For many years I prided myself on my legal research ability. Through a judicious use of the TAPP Rule, and exhaustive reading of Fla. Jur. 2d. and running myself ragged through the digests, I eventually found the caselaw and legal theories that helped me in my work. The funny thing about it though is that on numerous occasions my end work product bore no resemblance to what my original theory of the case had been. By traveling the roundabout road research from law books demanded, I often found the best way to represent my client bore no resemblance to my original ideas.

I never truly became comfortable with computer research because it didn't allow me to go down the blind alleys where I so often found my best inspiration.

Law books may only be decorative for the young lawyers of today and only worth a dollar a pound, but they were precious to me.

Having read some of your posts, I think you may have felt the same way.

 

[Briar Lee]

For many years I prided myself on my legal research ability. Through a judicious use of the TAPP Rule, and exhaustive reading of Fla. Jur. 2d. and running myself ragged through the digests, I eventually found the caselaw and legal theories that helped me in my work. The funny thing about it though is that on numerous occasions my end work product bore no resemblance to what my original theory of the case had been. By traveling the roundabout road research from law books demanded, I often found the best way to represent my client bore no resemblance to my original ideas.

I never truly became comfortable with computer research because it didn't allow me to go down the blind alleys where I so often found my best inspiration.

Law books may only be decorative for the young lawyers of today and only worth a dollar a pound, but they were precious to me.

Having read some of your posts, I think you may have felt the same way.

It was about this time of year, forty five years ago, I walked from the dormitory to the spanking brand new law school at UMKC and went through the first day of law school.

Seventy boys and seventy girls assembled in a huge lecture hall and the only soul I knew was my shirttail cousin by marriage on the Cahow side Earl Edwin Pitts, from Pittsburgh.

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Dean Anderson said look to your left and look to your right, two of you will graduate and the other one who leaves us might become President like our most famous drop out, Harry S Truman, or some other station in life worthwhile to our world.

He went on to say that ten per cent of us that graduated would have on their diploma

With Distinction

And the one of us who was last in our class would have a title the same as the first in our class on our diplomas.


Juris Doctor


He went on to tell us of legal fraternities we might join and of our law review and different service organizations we could join and how we would be graded on a strict curve and traditionally the A students would become law professors and the B students judges and the C students mostly millionaires, but that the easy money days of practicing law were in the past.

And he cautioned us that every year one or two or sometimes three or more of the girls in our class, volunteering to help convicted criminals on appeals, would toss their young lives away by falling in love with a convict and be forever forbidden to become lawyers and probably would wind up behind bars themselves.


I watched her. She was the second prettiest girl in the room, a striking blonde.

She’d stood up, and Anderson looked at her, and she returned his gaze, and her voice only quavered a little as she said——

W-Why don’t you caution all the b-boys?

And with a kindly smile on his face he said -

The first time any young man here throws away his future over a jail bird I will.

We went on a tour of the brand new law library and saw the greatest state of the art legal research wonderment of 1980 — ten computers half with Lexis and half with Westlaw—and we were told the search fees were over a hundred dollars an hour but were falling quickly, as huge law firms added them to their law libraries.

Then they turned us all loose for the day, and although the professors could smoke anywhere they liked we had to smoke in the hallways only.

The brave blonde who had confronted Dean Anderson was the toast of the group of smokers in the hallway, and the prettiest girl there walked over to me and Earl Pitts and said,

I’m looking for a light.

And I took out my Zippo, lit her long white menthol cigarette, and we started our study group that day. We added two more girls and four more boys, who all were smokers, and all conservatives.

I went back to my dorm room and called my mother, and asked her just exactly how many soldiers home from the war asked to marry her in 1946?

She laughed and said that was a long time ago, how was your first day of law school?

I said scary—-

At Humansville I knew that Johnny and William and Nella Rose and Kathy were my only competion.

This place has a 140 of the
smartest kids in the class, Mama.


Three years later, my mother was the first one I showed my second diploma I got in the fall of 1983 after my first one I earned in May.

The second one reads —-

With Distiction

After they tallied all the grades I had earned three A+ scores my last semester which made me ninth.

When I went to get my transcripts for taking the bar exam Dean Anderson came out to present me the second diploma.

And I said—-

If giving me one that says With Distiction means taking one away from somebody else please keep it.

And with that, Anderson paid ten dollars to the head librarian of the law school who had predicted I’d say just what I said.

Anderson smiled and said this year there are ten graduates With Distiction.

I smiled all the way down to the farm at Humansville.

Here’s to you, Mama, for teaching me to love twang!

Do What You Do Do Well

(Ned Miller)

The night before she died, my mother said 18 different boys returning from the service in 1946 asked to marry her (which included Edwin Pitts) and she said yes, to every one!

I was aghast. I said 18, how did you get out of 18 broken engagements?


She said they’d all been fighting a war. Some of them were wounded. All of them were heroes. I knew I was the pretty girl singer at the J - H Rodeo and the youngest daughter of Ma Agee, and I couldn’t refuse any of them.

And her dying eyes lit up and sparkled again and she added—


But every one, found some reason to break our engagement within a week or two.


I exclaimed Mama how did you accomplish that?

And she laughed and said I’m sleepy and it’s late, I’ll tell you later……..

If can cross that final bar before heaven’s gate, I’m sure she will, you know?

But only after, we get all the Cahows up there to sing Broken Engagement—Louvin Brothers version.

 

[Morbius]

Nice memories. I haven't thought about law school in years. I remember that "Look to your left and look to your right..." speech. I think they gave it everywhere. It scared the snot out of me too. I was the first college graduate in my family so I felt the weight on my shoulders believe you me.

My Contracts professor used to bring a baseball to class in order to demonstrate the passing of the power of acceptance from the offeror to the offeree. So one day he threw it to me and I surprised him by throwing back a basketball counter offer that I had hidden under my desk. It was the only time I ever saw a professor break up laughing.

 

[Briar Lee]

Nice memories. I haven't thought about law school in years. I remember that "Look to your left and look to your right..." speech. I think they gave it everywhere. It scared the snot out of me too. I was the first college graduate in my family so I felt the weight on my shoulders believe you me.

My Contracts professor used to bring a baseball to class in order to demonstrate the passing of the power of acceptance from the offeror to the offeree. So one day he threw it to me and I surprised him by throwing back a basketball counter offer that I had hidden under my desk. It was the only time I ever saw a professor break up laughing.

After my first day of law school I told Mama that Harry S Truman dropped out of my law school she said—

At least he stood there on the steps, the same as you stood there today

Bruce (my father) and I did our best for you at home

We sent you to school and to church

But it was you who studied and learned and listened and worked like a slave in the heat and the cold,

And in one lifetime you’ve had the first day of medical school (four years earlier) and today the first day of law school and whatever else you may want you will be able to say that, and that you earned those honors

Then she asked, besides Edwin Pitt’s son Earl Pitts did you by any chance meet any young girls there who were law students.

I told her the story about the blonde bombshell that confronted Dean Anderson and then afterwards the prettiest girl there walked up to me and asked me for a light.

Really, she said. The poor girl must not be able to afford matches.

I asked Bruce for a dime to play the juke box and he gave me a quarter:

I asked what song did you play first for Daddy, and she said he requested an Eddie Arnold ballad If I Must Tow the Mark You Must Walk the Line, but I picked that one last.

Which one first Mama?

And she broke out singing Jealous Heart just like Jenny Lou Carson, the same way that always just destroyed my Daddy after he’d finished milking cows

We were both engaged.

Her future husband was a medical student classmate of mine, who became the Coroner of Jackson County.


My future wife became a school teacher and her father owned a chain of fifteen banks.

But after that first day of law school, I’ve not since a day been in awe of doctors or lawyers or movie star grade girls.

( If I Must Tow the Mark) You Must Walk the Line

 

[brian64]

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AI & The New Frontier Of Torts: ChatGPT Faces Claims Of Suicide, Defamation, & Even Murder

AI and the New Frontier of Torts: ChatGPT Faces Claims of Suicide, Defamation, and Even Murder

Below is my column in The Hill on the spate of lawsuits against OpenAI over injuries associated with ChatGPT. These lawsuits could offer a long-needed review of OpenAI and its corporate practices. …

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[sardonicus87]

"Let there be light... "

 

[Briar Lee]

AI & The New Frontier Of Torts: ChatGPT Faces Claims Of Suicide, Defamation, & Even Murder

AI and the New Frontier of Torts: ChatGPT Faces Claims of Suicide, Defamation, and Even Murder

Below is my column in The Hill on the spate of lawsuits against OpenAI over injuries associated with ChatGPT. These lawsuits could offer a long-needed review of OpenAI and its corporate practices. …

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It still burns my ass, and will until I die.

My father milked cows for our living a half a mile South of the tiny villiage called on today’s maps Hamlet Missouri, but in his youth was nicknamed Bug Tussle by Emmett Molder who bought Mr Hamlet’s store. He was ever after the

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That fact, led the lawyers representing the producers of the Beverly Hillbillies television show to settle threatened litigation by The Index at Hermitage Missouri and my own grandmother Myrtle Cahow “Ma” Agee to pay my grandmother—alone—$400 for the first 200 copies of her 1963 book.



I was five years old, but not a potted plant.





“Nanny” Kathy Jenkins owned The Index.

She had her friend Ma Agee pay her five dollars for the rights to her illustrations and I was a witness along with my cousin Pamela, slightly younger than I am.

Pammy has the receipts.

Now for the record, my mother’s part of Saydee in the Ma Agee series Ma and Pa was played by Donna Douglas as Ella Mae in the television series. And my mother was insulted they cast her as a cheap, dumb blonde.

The three girls in my law school study group came up to me in the fall of 1981, and said

You’ve been selected for Law Review

The process for being elevated to law review was somewhat like the process of being chosen for service as an Elder in the Humansville Christian Church and electing to so serve. In theory a man might decline but who would refuse that honor and duty, you know?

I told my fiancé and my mother.

(Yes, my mother was still rooting for the prettiest girl in our law school class, not the lovely Emmylou Harris/Natalie Wood clone banking heiress I did marry. )

And when I was not offered law review, my good friend found out why.

And she was crying—-

And said the President of the Gay Student’s Union did not believe you could be fair about homosexuality. You were black balled.

And on my way trudging up the hill towards my dorm room, I thought those liberals just lost the best ally they possibly could have imagined.

Tommy’s Doll

Earnest Tubb

Just Between You and Me

Charlie Pride on the Lawerence Welk Show

Skip a Rope

Henson Cargill

Tramp on the Street

Hank Williams

Ravishing Ruby

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And all the other hymns and ballads I had learned since I was in my cradle, had taught love for our fellow men, and especially the least of these, our brethren.

Imagine my surprise when Dean Anderson and Dean Popper personally selected me to the the Chief Judge of the Student Court of UMKC.

I said but I’ve been a Student Patrolman since 1977, and they said that is a lot of why we selected you.

I wrote their rules of procedure.

I wonder how much of it, is still used?

The chief judge had the unqualified and absolute right to let anyone go Scot free (kinder sorta like ole Pontus Pilate) but they had to submit their written decision to a Dean of the Law School, who would then present it to the UMKC Law Review.

They couldn’t overturn it, but they could write signed dissents.

Here’s to you Comrade Professor Jonathan Turley.


Ballad of Francis Gary Powers

Red River Dave

All of life, is keeping in the service of our common Master.

And never the darker angels of our nature.

 

[LotusEater]

I didn’t read the whole mess, but recently several attorneys and at least one judge are facing sanctions for using AI in briefings, pleadings and decisions.

The problem from what I’ve read and two court hearings I watched (YouTube can be amazing) is that clerks and underlings have used AI without fact checking.

This has resulted in incorrect or nonexistent case data. They refer to these as “hallucinations”

I had a defense case I was assisting with and I watched the bodycam videos, read the entire case file and studied the scene photos.

After I formulated my opinion I fed a little info into Grok3. While the results were fairly good, there was plenty that instantly caught my eye as out of context or too general to be useful.

AI is coming, just don’t forget to use common sense.

Nothing is easy or free.

IMO one of the big issues with using AI is poor prompt engineering. If you ask for an example of something e.g. case law pertaining to xyz
You may get a fabricated response or an example of what the thing you are looking for would/could/might look like. If you are more specific, tell it you want examples of existing xyx with source links, suggest were to look and be explicit about not wanting fabricated results you have a much better chance of finding what you want. Then it’s a matter of using your own expertise and fact checking to parse BS from good info. AI tools are just that - tools. They aren’t a magic wand and shouldn’t be used as such. I have found that they can make research and report writing much easier but they can’t be relied upon to do all the work (even though that’s how a lot of people try to use them)

This is just my take, I’m sure others will not agree.