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Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 27m

The whole article is about the extensive effort by humans needed to assess (and mitigate, not remove) the legal and reputational risk posed by LLM AI because it inevitably makes things up (amongst other failings). Thank you for making my point.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 42m

I think express wording would be required. An implied repeal is not attractive.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 43m

Is it a payment in relation to the termination of a tenancy, so falling under s1(6)(a)? I’m not at all sure - it may be in consequence of the termination of the tenancy, but not a necessary one.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 58m

Agreed not temporal per se, but connection requires more, I think. A contractual penalty for holding over after tenant NTQ in the tenancy agreement would certainly be caught. But a statutory penalty based precisely on there no longer being a tenancy seems less obviously caught.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 11h

I think Mr Sterling is an AI bot.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 11h

I think Mr Sterling is an AI bot.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 11h

None of which links are about ‘deposing LLMs’. If you are not an AI bot, you are doing a very good impression of one.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

Google on "Deposing LLMs to verify correctness"

Are you just making stuff up?

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

No, that is not what he was saying. You are too generous.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

Oh mate, you really, really don't want to get into LLMs and legal proceedings. Let's just say careers have been ended, and more will be. By the way, did you use an AI for that response?

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

Quite.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

Particularly in the context of the unreliability of LLM AI. 'I found it to be accurate, so..' doesn't really work.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

Of course everyone makes errors. The difference is that a human error is generally not something simply invented to plausibly respond to a prompt.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

I don't care about your 'lived experience', this is a central element of what LLM AIs do. They invent plausible text based on their models. No amount of 'and make this accurate' will change that. You are, at best constraining them to making stuff up that looks like your dataset and citations.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 12h

No, no no no. That won't work. There is no way to stop the plausibility engines from making stuff up.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 13h

I've read your other replies and none of that makes sense.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 13h

No, it was a right to buy leasehold.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

I have little idea who any of these people are, but having a journalist call this article an 'excellent read' by a 'tremendous writer' when, having read it, it is terribly written and a tedious read, is where you question their judgement.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

I've been thinking about this since your piece, but I'm afraid I am unconvinced. I can see the argument succeeding before a first instance DJ, but not, I think, further.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Yes, sure, former tenants,, but is it in connection with the tenancy? Tenant has terminated the tenancy.

And also, this is a statutory penalty, not a purported contractual one. On what basis - absent from express wording - does the TFA disapply the DFRA?

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Definitely autumnal here…

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

For some of them, definitely not ;-)

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

I.. But... What.. Why...

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

There are a few councils with private sector spin off companies.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

Article 1 Protocol 1 of the Convention on Human Rights, which is one reason (amongst many others) why it wouldn't work.