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Today I hope that for a change John Roberts is personally writing a short opinion deciding a motion because the case is intellectually interesting to him and also two of his clerks are taking personal days, but he realizes legal research has evolved to be computerized instead of using the printed AmJur and Shepherd's books he used to use and he's not so good on the computer but someone has told him Grok is easy to use so he tries it and it's fascinating and he spends the day diving down that rabbit hole until he and Grok have drafted a really well-researched document that says exactly what he wanted it to say and rather than wait for his clerks to return and cite-check it he thinks to himself, \"dammit, I'm still a damn fine lawyer and researcher in my own right!\" and just posts it himself on the Court's public server, completely unaware that six of the thirteen cases Grok found for him are completely fictitious and three of the others stand for the opposite of what Grok said they did, and he goes to bed tonight blissfully ignorant of how embarrassed he's going to be when he gets to work tomorrow. #IHopeJohnRoberts<\/a> #AI<\/a><\/p>","statusnet_conversation_id":6406190,"statusnet_in_groups":false,"external_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12613695","in_reply_to_profileurl":"https:\/\/c.im\/@msbellows","in_reply_to_ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/c.im\/users\/msbellows","attentions":[],"fave_num":0,"repeat_num":0,"is_post_verb":true,"is_local":false,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}