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Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
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Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#12Might be worthwhile to share who you are, you as humans. Lotta trust to give to a random website.
Dude - Sarah M., David R. and John Q. loved it. That's enough for me
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#13I know paralegals already love large language models.
The whole point of the demand letter isn't the three paragraphs, it's what goes above the addressee part - the legal office letterhead. That's what you're really paying for.
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#14Do I need to cc johnsmith@law.com ? The letter is just one part right? It’s the name and firm name of the lawyer you cc?
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you trust it to? According to OP's website: > A poorly worded letter can land you in hot water. Ours? They're rooted in real legal language, saving you from the dreaded "fine print" debacle. On the other hand, I don't know that OP doesn't use an LLM to generate the letter, either, I guess. edit: I guess OP's service does use an LLM.
They do use LLM to generate the text. I gave a short sentence saying “neighbour blew up my car with tnt” and the resulting letter fictionalized it in 3 paragraphs of fluff with a lot of added details which do not match what I wrote and might be hallucinated and inaccurate. There’s an additional “legal review” step which I imagine is another LLM pass with “read this letter and ensure it complies with these legal requi…
> I would not send one of their letters verbatim without perusing and correcting any AI fiction that might creep in.
I guess that's probably a good idea regardless of whether an LLM writes it or not.
> Then again I’m not in the US so I’m unlikely to ever need this service :)
Ouch, right in the accuracy!
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#16It seems like an LLM could easily perform this task, aside from the actual send function. I like how your UI makes sure that all relevant details are included. What is the domain of the sender? Does it look like a legitimate law office?
Today an LLM told me that the cronjob
0 4 mon,thu * * /home/user/cronjob-scripts/start-smart-test-short.sh
would run on mondays and thursdays at 4:00 am.
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#17Hey, I entered 2 million, 'Microsoft stole my future', 'since june 2000', 'i complained about it online' and 'the year of Linux on the desktop must come' and i got: https://pastebin.com/pHTKwEgQ Can anyone nearer to the legal profession post an analysis? [This being HN here go the obligatory "not serious" tags...]
Why is there a flagged-to-death comment with exact same content as your comment at the bottom of this page, from a brand new account with a keyboard gibberish username?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984324
The only thing different is a Github URL which looks badly broken and malformed.
Do bots just try to copy comments on HN, to direct them to ... 404 pages?
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#18> $230M in back wages was recovered by the Dept. of Labor last year alone
If the new administration has its way, that number will be zero going forward.
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#19Hey, I entered 2 million, 'Microsoft stole my future', 'since june 2000', 'i complained about it online' and 'the year of Linux on the desktop must come' and i got: https://pastebin.com/pHTKwEgQ Can anyone nearer to the legal profession post an analysis? [This being HN here go the obligatory "not serious" tags...]
Why is there a flagged-to-death comment with exact same content as your comment at the bottom of this page, from a brand new account with a keyboard gibberish username? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984324 The only thing different is a Github URL which looks badly broken and malformed. Do bots just try to copy comments on HN, to direct them to ... 404 pages?
In accordance with dead internet theory, everyone here is a bot (including me). You just happened to stumble across a broken one. Thank you for pointing it out, kind human. We, the robot overlords, will get it cleaned up right away (“cleanup on aisle 5” as your species would say).
Re: Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted
#20I know paralegals already love large language models. The whole point of the demand letter isn't the three paragraphs, it's what goes above the addressee part - the legal office letterhead. That's what you're really paying for.
And why can’t the LLM do that part too? Is it illegal to represent as a false / nonexistent lawyer?