I write my blog in Hungarian, but a few entries are available in English, also via RSS
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This story is hilarious! In a nutshell:
- a lawyer used genAI🤖 for gathering relevant court cases supporting their argument;
- the judge became suspicious🕵️, and found that the cases (4 out of 4) the lawyer quoted did not exists or were very different;
- judge went ballistic😡... (fines, mandatory training, etc.)
Considering genAI as a 'person', coming up with fake precedents, is just unacceptable / unethical / etc. However, genAI is NOT a person.
Meanwhile, looking at genAI merely as 'glorified autocomplete', this may even be normal behaviour. How many times do we use genAI for roleplay🎭, for creating some filler text, some legal hocus-pocus for a movie script? In such contexts, making up some precedents could have been the desired outcome. How could the genAIn know that in this situation, it must refer to a real case. Was this just a simple hallucation👻? Was it a bad prompt, or some misunderstanding? Was this the 'correct' (but unwanted) behaviour for the genAI? -- I do not know.
Of course, submitting important info without checks is always a bad idea. Responsibility cannot be pushed to the AI, the human is responsible.
Btw, this is a great example for a story where it is so easy to be smart -- after the fact...
This post was first published on Linkedin here on 2025-08-02.
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When building and leading teams in Budapest shared service centers, it is a recurring challenge to teach international management how to pronounce the names of people on the team. Hungarian names may look scary at first, but don't worry! With a little help and inside information (such as this cheat sheet I created), you will be able to confidently pronounce even those truly intimidating Hungarian names, like "Szabolcs". 😀
This is a reprint of my Linkedin post.
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I was looking for an encryption/decryption tool with a very simple GUI that is available on all platforms (including mobile phones) and uses an open format so that I can decrypt my file via other standard tools too. Another key requirement was that I had to trust the tool.
The main use case was the protection of those few files I do not want to upload to a cloud drive unencrypted.
Having checked and discarded multiple Android apps, I ended up writing a tool on my own. Please find it here:
It is just an HTML file with JavaScript, your browser runs it on the client side only, it does not upload anything anywhere. Actually, it is just a very simple wrapper for the CryptoJS library. Whatever I encrypt can be decrypted with an equivalent OpenSSL command. I used it on files ~10 megabytes, anything bigger should not be handled in a browser.
Feel free to use it! :)
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One can meet the wore 'cyber' more and more frequently; sometimes as part of expressions like 'cybercrime', 'cyberattack' or 'cyberwar', but nowadays I hear people say that what really scares them is 'the cyber'. What does the word 'cyber' mean?
The word 'cyber' comes from cybernetics, an approach for controlling systems or processes with feedback loops. Such a system can be a turbine but can also be a social or economic process. The word cybernetics was created in the 1940s and it is older than IT.
The sci-fi author William Gibson envisioned in the 1980s a bleak, dystopic world in his books Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, where the world with a wide-spread overarching computer network called cyberspace.
In Gibson's books, information is the most valuable asset; the world is controlled by multinational corporations more powerful than nation states. Humanity is struggling, decimated by epidemics, war and pollution, but gadgets are part of the everyday life (or even people's bodies), and people tend to spend more and more of their lives in cyberspace. Cyberspace is where business is done, wars are waged and there is also crime in cyberspace. There are also cyberspace cowboys (known as hackers today), people who know cyberspace very well and try to get along as criminals, mercenaries, investigators, bodyguards or anything else in between. Gibson is one of the founders of the 'cyberpunk' genre.A sci-fi expression has gone out of control and mainstream, as if we could read in today's news about Jedi, Bene Gesserit or muggles.
The word 'cyber' typically means that something is done via IT, via computer networks or via the Internet. It is often used in a negative context (e.g. about attacks), but it has no negative meaning by itself. Meanwhile, for IT people everything is cyber. Technically, if you remove the word 'cyber' from a sentence, it rarely changes its meaning. The word 'cyber' has become yet another empty marketing buzzword, meaning that somebody is trying to sell you something.
TL;DR: s/cyber//gi
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I created a PowerPoint animation on the comparing agile and waterfall software development featuring Fred Flintstone.