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> the state can't just let ordinary folk hang themselves with cheap half-baked "solutions". Why hasn't the practice of self-representation been banned then? I
by xienze 4y ago
> the state can't just let ordinary folk hang themselves with cheap half-baked "solutions".
Why hasn't the practice of self-representation been banned then? It's almost without exception a surefire way to hang oneself in a court room.
- notahacker 4y agoSelf representation doesn't involve some mountebank selling you a "robot lawyer that will get you off your parking ticket" solution
- xienze 4y agoSo what if I just decided of my own accord to use ChatGPT and train it myself? Or someone on GitHub made a fully trained version of it available in a Docker container, for free?
- notahacker 4y agoThen nobody would issue legal threats to you for selling "Robot Lawyer" services. But you probably wouldn't get permission to use Google Glass in the courtroom either, so you'd have to commit your legal arguments to memory as well as hoping the AI hadn't ingested too much "freeman of the land" nonsense...
- rkachowski 4y agoWhat's the difference between self representation and practicing law without a license - is there an exemption for unlicensed practitioners when they are performing on their own behalf, or this is a distinct category somehow?