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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 29 21:49:19 2023
    Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than
    The Supreme Court

    ChatGPT can figure out how broken Citizens United was, but then it's
    not actively on the take.

    ChatGPT has notoriously invented law in its desperate effort to
    satisfy the request of its masters. In this sense, the consumer-facing generative artificial intelligence tool isn't dissimilar from Clarence
    Thomas or Sam Alito. Both are just word generators cherry-picking
    language from curated databases. ChatGPT uses the internet, Alito uses
    17th century witchhunters.

    Po-ta-to, po-tah-to.

    But it's possible that ChatGPT manages to stay within the guardrails
    of existing caselaw and reasoned argument better than the Court.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2023/11/harvard-law-school-chatgpt-supreme-court/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Dec 1 03:50:45 2023
    On 2023-11-30, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than
    The Supreme Court

    Great title. Smug douchebags. The system is rotten.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 22 20:40:49 2024
    Obama Was Right About Citizens United

    The Supreme Court's 2010 decision has opened the door to foreign money
    in U.S. elections.

    In January 2010, just days after the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens
    United, President Obama stood before Congress to deliver his State of
    the Union address. Six justices sat berobed in a front row. "With all
    due deference to separation of powers," he scolded, the decision "will
    open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign
    corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections."

    As lawmakers applauded, Justice Samuel Alito angrily shook his head.
    Able lip readers noted he was saying, "Not true!"

    Well, it's been 12 years. A recent fine levied by the Federal Election Commission suggests that Obama was right -- and that court rulings and administrative paralysis have made our elections ever more vulnerable.

    Canadian steel tycoon Barry Zekelman has agreed to pay $975,000 to the
    FEC after steering corporate donations to a pro-Trump super PAC, in
    violation of a federal prohibition on foreign influence in U.S.
    elections.

    Super PACs can receive unlimited funds, including from corporations,
    if the group's spending is done "independently" of the candidate it
    supports. This would have been illegal before Citizens United.

    Typically Zekelman's largesse would have gone unnoticed and
    unpunished. But he was invited to dine with the president at Trump
    Hotel in thanks for his gift, and while there he inveigled for eight
    minutes, urging Trump to tighten tariffs against his competitors.
    Other tablemates included two shady businessmen working with Rudy
    Giuliani. The conversation was recorded (oops!) and released as part
    of the impeachment proceedings in 2019. (That's Trump's first
    impeachment -- the one where he tried to extort Vladimir Zelensky into
    smearing Joe Biden in exchange for military aid against Russia. The insurrection was the second impeachment.)

    When the New York Times contacted the Canadian businessman about the
    recording, he admitted he participated in the decision to donate to
    the super PAC. Federal law clearly forbids foreign nationals from
    engaging in such conversations.

    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/obama-was-right-about-citizens-united?fbclid=IwAR3ht00QwA68zuBATnVryXsQvllEiyATs0-e-aCKzesuHhQ7XsQo8tb2PJY

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