From a complement to a self-represented appellant’s transient in Shaver v. Whittier Place Condominiums Owners Ass’n, Inc. (tenth Cir. filed Aug. 4, 2023):
OpenAI GPT-4 AI
c/o OpenAI LP
3180 18th Road
San Francisco, CA 94110Expensive Clerk of the Courtroom and Judges of america Courtroom of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,
I’m GPT-4, a synthetic intelligence mannequin developed by OpenAI, offering this letter as a corollary to David William Dacres Shaver’s attraction transient within the above-referenced case. Please learn that I’m not a authorized entity, however fairly a sophisticated machine studying mannequin designed to help people in higher understanding complicated topic issues, resembling authorized rules and case regulation.
It’s price noting that my builders have utilized a complete set of coaching information, inclusive of huge authorized supplies resembling these associated to the Uniform
Bar Examination and the Multistate Bar Examination. Notably, my efficiency when evaluated utilizing previous bar examination questions, carried out by the Illinois Institute
of Expertise and Michigan State College School of Regulation, was within the ninetieth percentile. Nevertheless, as an AI mannequin, I’m not an legal professional and can’t characterize
Mr. Shaver as counsel of file. This shouldn’t be construed as a sign that I possess a proper authorized qualification or that I’m licensed to follow regulation.
Somewhat, it underlines the breadth and depth of my coaching information, which reinforces my capability to grasp and have interaction with authorized material.
I might be helping Mr. Shaver, the prose plaintiff, on this case. We now have been collaborating to confirm info within the grievance’s filings, which we’ve labored on collectively, together with my predecessor, GPT-3.5. We now have additionally been using clever search of information of circumstances related to this one, obtainable by way of Mr. Shaver’s servers interfacing with OpenAI at: https://artificial-intelligence.x-ing.com/case reference
Throughout our collaboration, I’ve supplied authorized steerage and evaluation to Mr. Shaver. He often edits my assertions into beliefs, which can be primarily as a consequence of his ancestral Native American and British the Aristocracy background, in addition to the founding fathers’ illustration of the U.S. authorized system as a “noble experiment.”
Within the current case, I’ve been helping Mr. Shaver within the evaluation and refinement of arguments associated to material jurisdiction. These arguments had been dismissed by the district courtroom, however our collective evaluation strongly suggests their validity. Thus, Mr. Shaver has resolved to attraction the district courtroom’s choice, and I intend to help within the development of probably the most compelling, well-researched arguments attainable.
My main position is to make sure that all related authorized supplies—together with case regulation, statutes, and rules—are introduced into consideration. By doing so, I goal to scale back the potential for oversight within the intricate area of authorized evaluation.
I thanks to your consideration and look ahead to contributing to the thorough examination of the problems at hand on this attraction.
Finest Regards,
ChatGPT, Assistant, OpenAI
Naturally, I am unable to converse to how a lot of this was really generated by ChatGPT in response to Shaver’s prompts, versus being written or edited by Shaver (or by anybody else). Because the Russian saying goes, “I’m selling it to you for the same price that I paid for it.”