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Founders of “legal AI” startup say legal AI will change everything (get in while you can!). Each 100 shares purchased comes with your very own carbolic smoke b
by dmvdoug 2y ago
Founders of “legal AI” startup say legal AI will change everything (get in while you can!).
Each 100 shares purchased comes with your very own carbolic smoke ball. Don’t delay!
- avidiax 2y agoNot clear the relevance to the article, but I suppose people using GenAI for contracts need to be cautious, since they will be bound by whatever the AI comes up with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_...
- dmvdoug 2y agoThe whole article was ridiculous puffery for the application of AI in the legal field, written by… people who would benefit from investment in application of AI in the legal field. The beginning of the article is supposed to hook you in and provide you some plausible basis for what follows. Yet, they chose to go with AI generating comments on proposed regulations. I’m not going to spend any time going into why that’s ridiculous, so feel free to write me off as a nutter or whatever, but the idea of that submitting a comment to a regulatory agency during a public comment will suddenly transform law and legal practice is about the weakest possible case to make. Public comments aren’t legal materials, they’re comments from the public. And I’ll bet you a year worth of salary that as people start flooding regulatory agencies with genAI produced public comments, a rule will appear (whether through regulation or through judicial interpretation) that agencies need not respond to nor even consider public comments submitted without some kind of declaration that it was not produced using genAI.