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Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

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Re: Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

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I don't know a lot, but I do know that the legal profession will change itself as required to protect itself. Which includes protecting itself from being completely intolerable to the wider populace. This is a law of the Universe on par with the "death and taxes" adage. What this may look like is measures that will make legal action, and even public action on par with "comments", far less accessible. At least to robots. Though, I can't predict how that will look in terms of detail.

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I don't know a lot, but I do know that the legal profession will change itself as required to protect itself. Which includes protecting itself from being completely intolerable to the wider populace. This is a law of the Universe on par with the "death and taxes" adage. What this may look like is measures that will make legal action, and even public action on par with "comments", far less accessible. At least to robo…

This looks like more work/income for the legal profession, not less work.

The whole article is about how with minimal effort you can cost companies and individuals beaucoup bucks in legal expenses.

Re: Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

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Lawsuits may become automatic when you leave a store unhappy it might have the ability to create a lawsuit and then the store's lawsuit Api will be called, then the two ais will start negotiations and end up with a $15 deposit in your account by the time you get home. And it will be all because a certain hormone raised in your head.

Re: Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

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It would be interesting to see AI lawyer arguing a case in court.

Some of the early lawyerly uses of AI have been no bueno.[0] Yet the legal need to produce knowledge from huge amounts of text is such an obvious alignment with LLMs...

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/canada-lawyer-... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-... https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222273745/michael-cohen-ai-f...

Re: Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

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I don't know a lot, but I do know that the legal profession will change itself as required to protect itself. Which includes protecting itself from being completely intolerable to the wider populace. This is a law of the Universe on par with the "death and taxes" adage. What this may look like is measures that will make legal action, and even public action on par with "comments", far less accessible. At least to robo…

This looks like more work/income for the legal profession, not less work. The whole article is about how with minimal effort you can cost companies and individuals beaucoup bucks in legal expenses.

Your two statements logically conflict. I understand the article. Your first line is not what it says. See the "Legal Cost Collapse" subhead. In addition, logically LLM's will increasingly allow individuals to free themselves from the need for attorneys. And again, see the Cyber Risk subhead for issues implying an intolerable state of affairs for the wider public. In that light as well as other context, your second line will be a major part of the subtext for why the legal environment adapts away from LLM access.

Re: Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

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I don't know a lot, but I do know that the legal profession will change itself as required to protect itself. Which includes protecting itself from being completely intolerable to the wider populace. This is a law of the Universe on par with the "death and taxes" adage. What this may look like is measures that will make legal action, and even public action on par with "comments", far less accessible. At least to robo…

You should sometimes review the Indian judicial system and their judgements. I have never seen a more self congratulatory, smug and confident yet incompetent people in my life. All hiding under some pretense of intellectual superiority that is enabled by a corrupt collegium system that makes it difficult to disrupt.

Essentially run by a handful of families and inner circle. Just another shadow govt. type entity.

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