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Three Core GenAI Risks: Hallucination, Prompt Injection, and Sycophancy

Three Core GenAI Risks: Hallucination, Prompt Injection, and Sycophancy

I just talked today with Scot Weisman of LaunchPad Lab about generative AI risks ("AI for Business: Legal Risks Every Executive Should Know"). I mentioned a concept that I frequently discuss of the main risks to focus on with generative AI. Many different problems tie back to three core risks: hallucination, prompt injection, and sycophancy. I could give you plenty of examples of each one—if you scroll to the bottom you'll see related stories with examples—but I want to focus in this post on the overall framework to understand the risks conceptually.

Chad Ratashak
The AI "Writing Help" Trap: A Game to Show How AI Can Silently Alter Legal Documents

The AI "Writing Help" Trap: A Game to Show How AI Can Silently Alter Legal Documents

I made a game to help attorneys understand the situation of the attorney in Kosel Equity v. MacGregor, a recent Connecticut case: using other tools for research, then generative AI for writing assistance, and how it may be difficult to spot when “AI…intuitively [makes] changes to the brief.” This is an interactive demonstration of the unexpected risks of asking generative AI to "clean up" a legal draft.

CLE On Demand Now Approved for Credit in Iowa

CLE On Demand Now Approved for Credit in Iowa

Midwest Frontier AI Consulting LLC offers Continuing Legal Education on generative AI for attorneys. Courses cover both litigation and transactional use cases, including responsible AI use, identifying AI misuse by opposing counsel, and understanding the ethical obligations around generative AI.

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