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I wonder what the reach of a legal argument a bunch of lawyers are going to come up with in order to cripple the tech that threatens their industry?
by Workaccount2 3y ago
I wonder what the reach of a legal argument a bunch of lawyers are going to come up with in order to cripple the tech that threatens their industry?
- delichon 3y agoCopyright appears to be the primary attack vector.
- anotherhue 3y agoAre the arguments submitted to a court (and made publicly accessible) subject to copyright? I kind of assumed they were in the same space as government documents.
- delichon 3y agoA legal LLM would be significantly crippled without the knowledge stored in the universe of non-legal documents.
- anotherhue 3y agoYou're probably right, but the law and reality often seem to be orthogonal.
- zugi 3y agoLawyers control government, at least in the U.S. Expect laws banning or severely restricting the use of AI in the legal field soon. I expect arguments will range from the dangers of ineffective counsel to "but think of the children" - whatever helps them protect their monopoly.
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- axpy906 3y agoThat’s some cartel level action.
- DenisM 3y agoI think it’s more accurate to think of lawyers as a guild. Likewise doctors, accountants, plumbers, and electricians.
- robertlagrant 3y agoA guild that has the inside track on changing the rules for itself.
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- lewhoo 3y ago> whatever helps them protect their monopoly Ah yes, the story of bad people not wanting their livelihoods taken from them by good tech giants. Seriously, is there no room for empathy in all of this ? If you went through law school and likely got yourself in debt in the process then you're not protecting any monopoly but your means to exist. There are people like that out there you know.
- pb7 3y agoIn general, we should not stall technological progress just to protect jobs. They will find other jobs. This is the way throughout human history.
- lewhoo 3y agoI'm not advocating anything of this sort. I only reject the typical framing of "bad guys" on one side.
- jjackson5324 3y ago> Seriously, is there no room for empathy in all of this ? Are you joking? Do you not empathize with the far, far larger number of people who can't afford adequate legal representation and have no legal recourse? There are people like that out there you know!!!!
- kevingadd 3y agoThere seems to be an assumption baked in here that somehow GPT will be "adequate legal representation" and I'm not sure how to get there. An "adequate" source of revenue for OpenAI, I guess.
- lewhoo 3y agoI gave a specific example with whom I empathize and no, I'm not joking. You on the other hand point to a different group and say "look, look, there is this group, don't you like them as well ?" which is close to "but what of the children in Africa" argument/deflection.
- guluarte 3y agoI think the other way is going to happen, being a lawyer will now be a lot more expensive requiring some servers doing AI inference, developers, and 3 party services..
- bongodongobob 3y agoI wouldn't be so sure. I've worked in the MSP space and law is the most tech averse industry I've ever come into contact with.
- ProllyInfamous 3y agoI have two attorney brothers. January 2023 my self-proclaimed smartypants lawyerbro tried to bully me into accepting that ChatGPT wasn't anything special. I still maintain that he is incorrect.
- phrz 3y agoNot a reach, it's called "unlicensed practice of law" and it's a crime.