Post #3229948

2026-06-09 14:42 UTC

How much do you want to bet that this just means it has a CLAUDE.md file that says “do not hallucinate cases” https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/

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@jalefkowit@vmst.io 2026-06-09 16:01

Back in the '80s and '90s, there was a category of software pejoratively referred to as "databases for dentists." Desktop relational databases like dBase, FoxPro and Access were incredibly flexible. You could apply them to nearly any business situation by writing a little business logic and building a few forms. But understanding that required a degree of abstract thinking which most people don't have. So for a while, you could make a lot of money by taking a general-purpose database, slapping a few forms on it that were specific to a particular type of small business, and selling it to those businesses at a huge markup.

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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-06-09 18:03

@jalefkowit@vmst.io This implies the existence of legal tools that are *supposed* to hallucinate cases. "Oh, there's your problem, you had it switched to Evil."

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