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An AI answer with no source behind it is a guess. Grounding fixes that: the model reads your documents before it answers. Which raises the question most teams skip: which documents may it read, and where do they go? Good plain-English guide in the reply.
Diagram titled 'An answer without a source is a guess.' Left, From memory: dashed, empty source circles feed an answer; sources it remembers may not exist. Right, From your documents: a field of document dots, two ringed in red, behind a gate; only two pale dots pass the gate to the answer. Caption: the question becomes which files it may read. Botformed.

ALT Diagram titled 'An answer without a source is a guess.' Left, From memory: dashed, empty source circles feed an answer; sources it remembers may not exist. Right, From your documents: a field of document dots, two ringed in red, behind a gate; only two pale dots pass the gate to the answer. Caption: the question becomes which files it may read. Botformed.

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Your AI just gave you 12 cases for your brief. Names, holdings, links. It looks like research. One question that's easy to skip: did it open them? 🧵
Carousel cover. A parent on a phone call works at a laptop while a child plays at a table behind her. Text: AI found 12 cases. Did it read them?

ALT Carousel cover. A parent on a phone call works at a laptop while a child plays at a table behind her. Text: AI found 12 cases. Did it read them?

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4/ Questions worth asking before relying on the list: which cases did it open in full? Which came from a summary? Can it show the passage and page? If you represent yourself, the filing is yours. If you represent clients, you answer to them.
Closing slide. A person reads an open book in afternoon sun. Text: Midpage's article: a glimpse of accuracy, as published by the company. At the end of the day, it's yours. Represent yourself, and you are responsible for your own filings. Represent clients, and you are responsible to them.

ALT Closing slide. A person reads an open book in afternoon sun. Text: Midpage's article: a glimpse of accuracy, as published by the company. At the end of the day, it's yours. Represent yourself, and you are responsible for your own filings. Represent clients, and you are responsible to them.

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Sources: Midpage, 6 Nov: midpage.ai/blog/opus-5-5-wit… New York courts' AI guidance for attorneys: news10.com/wp-content/upload…
Opus 5.5 With and Without Midpage: Midpage Wins 89% of The Time

Opus 5.5 With and Without Midpage: Midpage Wins 89% of The Time

We ran Claude Opus 5.5 on 100 legal research questions with Midpage and with web search. A blind judge preferred the Midpage answer on 89, because the Midpage agent had reviewed 82% of the cases it...

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In Nature: AutoDNA, a lab where AI agents run DNA experiments on over 20 types of instruments. People restock supplies and service hardware. In one test it matched expert-optimized enzymatic DNA synthesis yields. For R&D teams, the question is what those agents may read.
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A real case can still be the wrong answer. One public tracker lists 2,266 court decisions where courts found or implied reliance on AI-generated material. 960 are tagged for real authority misrepresented, an error that can pass any "does this case exist?" check. A thread 🧵
Courtroom with wooden benches and flags. A card reads: A real case can still be the wrong answer. Grounding by industry, law. Botformed.

ALT Courtroom with wooden benches and flags. A card reads: A real case can still be the wrong answer. Grounding by industry, law. Botformed.

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8/ Skipping the check costs. Flycatcher v. Affable Ave. (S.D.N.Y.): default judgment against the lawyer's own client, then $38,877.59 in fees and costs. Kleyman v. Kaloidis (N.Y. Sup. Ct.): a $10,000 sanction plus $36,511.35 in fees. Experts too, as @nikiblack wrote.
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9/ What grounding means in law: 1. Answer from the record, not memory 2. Run all three checks 3. Record who checked what, and when 4. Fail closed (Sachar's term): a failed check holds the document until someone resolves it Full article, every source: linkedin.com/pulse/real-case…
A real case can still be the wrong answer: grounding AI in law

A real case can still be the wrong answer: grounding AI in law

What grounding AI takes in law: citators, misgrounded citations, 2,266 court decisions on AI-generated errors, and what New York's courts now expect.

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AI agents enter the wet lab. In new @Nature N&V article, I discuss recent advances in agents running automated labs and ideas on how to make these systems more reliable. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Grounding, RAG and tool use, explained by @cowshedstartup: cow-shed.com/blog/grounding-…
Grounding AI: How To Stop Models From Making Things Up - Cow-Shed Startup

Grounding AI: How To Stop Models From Making Things Up - Cow-Shed Startup

Grounding stops AI from making things up by connecting models to verified, up-to-date sources at query time. Here's a plain-English guide to RAG, tool use, and why grounding matters most when the...

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