@davidbstein
Law & AI @ Vanderbilt Formerly: - Law & CS @ Northeastern - Cybersecurity Lead @ Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet) - Director of Engineering @ Braze - Product Engineer @ Foursquare - Early Eng @ Dropbox - Robotics Researcher @ MIT
Tried using ChatGPT to find documentation. It told me to wire the buttons on my bathroom fan to mains.
Me: The instructions say "These wires are not designed to carry current. DO NOT CONNECT POWER TO THESE CONDUCTORS."
ChatGPT: That sentence... is easy to misread.
chatgpt.com/share/692f65...
New from me with Ben Sobel and @davidbstein.bsky.social:
_Generative Interpretation_, forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We argue against using LLMs as part of the judicial process. They're not ready yet, and it's a long road to get there.
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Bluebooking's tedious. I'm making IndigoCite—a Zotero for lawyers.
- Automatic parsing of SSRN, Heinonline, WestLaw, Lexis
- Hand-coded Indigobook formatter
- Works with existing Zotero/Juris-M accounts
MacOS test builds come out this June.
Pull requests encouraged.
github.com/indigo-cite/...