Claims extracted
21
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans strongly right
of the writing, not the subject · beta estimate
Publisher signals
94/100
Reason's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Technology
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent
I recently attended a workshop about how law professor are using AI.
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professor → attend → AI
One professor said that he has trained AI on his writing style by reviewing all of his past publications.
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he → say → publications
Thus, any text generated by the AI will be in the same sort of style that the professor has--or perhaps had.
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professor → generate → style
Law professors will often research in certain areas of the law, but across all categories, they write with a particular approach called a scholarly voice.
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they → research → approach
Many junior professors struggle with developing their own voice.
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professors → struggle → voice
Indeed, I would wager that for most scholars, their voice changes over the years.
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voice → wager → years
For sure, my voice has changed substantially since I started teaching in 2012.
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I → change → 2012
What does AI do to this process?
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AI → do → process
Perhaps established professors have a corpus of writings to train AI, but newbies do not.
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newbies → establish → AI
How are developing writers supposed to build their own voice if AI has nothing to train on?
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AI → develop → nothing
I suppose the obvious reply is that junior scholars should not use AI.
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scholars → suppose → AI
But I would wager that the youngest writers are likely the most tech savvy, and may have even started using this tech in the earliest years of their practice.
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writers → wager → practice
Soon enough, all people on the hiring market will have come of age with AI in law school.
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people → hire → school
And they will never have a chance to develop their own voice without a helpful agent to assist.
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they → have → agent
This fact will necessarily affect how law schools hire and grant tenure.
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schools → affect → tenure
Perhaps professors should be asked to describe exactly how they use AI in their scholarship.
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they → ask → scholarship
But I am not confident this inquiry will prove much.
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inquiry → prove → much
Ultimately, we should just presume that nearly everything written was aided by AI, unless a professor affirmatively states it was written old school.
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it → presume → AI
And with that presumption in place, I struggle to measure how much the professor actually brings to the scholarly inquiry.
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professor → struggle → inquiry
We will just end up rewarding whoever can coach their agents the best.
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whoever → end → agents
Scholarly creativity will give way to law coding.
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creativity → give → coding
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