Bob Ambrogi

<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SectionSigns-169-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" srcset="https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SectionSigns-169-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SectionSigns-169-300x169.png 300w, https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SectionSigns-169-768x432.png 768w, https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SectionSigns-169-1536x864.png 1536w, https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SectionSigns-169.png 1707w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A few days ago, The New York Times declared, &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/technology/ai-is-coming-for-lawyers-again.html">A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers</a>.&#8221; With GPT-4 having <a href="https://www.lawnext.com/2023/03/gpt-takes-the-bar-exam-again-this-time-it-score-among-top-10-of-test-takers.html">passed the bar exam</a> and legal tech companies <a href="https://www.lawnext.com/2023/03/casetext-launches-co-counsel-its-openai-based-legal-assistant-to-help-lawyers-search-data-review-documents-draft-memos-analyze-contracts-and-more.html">launching AI-based legal assistants</a>, it sometimes seems that the potential for AI in law is limitless. But what about that most basic of a lawyer&#8217;s tasks — formatting citations to comply with the style of <a href="https://www.legalbluebook.com/">The Bluebook</a>?
Despite ChatGPT&#8217;s impressive achievements, formatting citations is one task for which it is not currently suited, argues <a href="https://directory.lawnext.com/authors/ethan-isaacson/">Ethan Isaacson</a>, founder and CEO of <a href="https://legaleasecitations.com/">LegalEase Citations</a>.
Why is that? He explains in an article he wrote for the resources library of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, <a href="https://directory.lawnext.com/library/ai-and-the-bluebook-why-chat-gpt-falls-short-of-traditional-algorithms-for-bluebook-legal-citation-formatting/">AI and The Bluebook: Why ChatGPT Falls Short of Traditional Algorithms for Bluebook Legal Citation Formatting</a>.
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A few days ago, The New York Times declared, “A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers.” With GPT-4 having passed the bar exam and legal tech companies launching AI-based legal assistants, it sometimes seems that the potential for AI in law is limitless. But what about that most basic of a lawyer’s tasks — formatting citations to […]

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Is ChatGPT Up To the Task of Formatting Bluebook Legal Citations?