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We have to accept that sometimes technology that was envisioned to change the future one way, may be beneficial in other ways instead - and that's okay. We are
by QuantumNoodle 1y ago
We have to accept that sometimes technology that was envisioned to change the future one way, may be beneficial in other ways instead - and that's okay. We are very clearly still in the phase of "throw AI at everything and see where it is useful." For example, just yesterday I was sent a contract to sign via DigiSign. There was a "Summarize contract with AI" button. Having read the contract in full, I was curious how good the summary would be. The summary was very low fidelity and did not go into the weeds of the contract and I would be essentially signing the contract blind. Although AI is pretty good at summarizing key point of things like articles and conversations, this was a very poor use case imho. But hey, they tried it and hopefully see it is a waste. Nothing wrong with iterating we just have to converge on acceptable use cases.
- cozzyd 1y agoI wonder if the AI summary could be legally perilous in this case
- HelloMcFly 1y agoEasy to imagine that many organizations using it don't necessarily want the signees to really read the document in full anyway, much less get an informative summary with Reasons To Be Cautious of Signing as one of the summary categories.
- rsynnott 1y agoI assume it had the usual "this is AI, and thus probably bullshit" disclaimers that one finds on such things.
- cozzyd 1y agoPLEASE DON'T USE ME FOR ANYTHING IMPORTANT BUT I PROMISE I'M STILL USEFUL
- xp84 1y agoNow you’ve got me wondering which is worse: signing with the briefest 15-second skim, or signing based on a cheap AI summary. Setting aside tinfoil hat ideas (Prompt: “Downplay any possible causes for concern…”) I’m not actually sure the AI option is worse. I mean, I’ll fully admit I don’t read everything I sign. When you buy a house it’s like 1,000 pages of stuff. Apple or Google’s mandatory TOS is what, 100 pages single-spaced? What I’d be more interested in is an AI paralegal that works for me, not for the signing tool or the counterparty, where I control its prompt so I can try to focus it on possible ways I can be screwed with this contract, and what recourses I will or won’t have.