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Mike: open-source legal AI
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Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
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#232 commits, 8 hours old....
OP's Github profile looks very fishy.
Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#24Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.
Rule of tech products: the nicer the splash page is, the worse the product is
Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#25For a moment I thought it was some open-source LLM trained on legal. It's not, it's a web app wrapping major LLM providers and streamlining legal workflows, uploading documents, and having the LLM providers interact with them.
Cool project regardless!
Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#26I'm so tired of having to sign up to some new service even just to try it out.
Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#27Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially…
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Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#28Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially…
United States v. Heppner mentioned a public chatbot service. If a law firm (or specialized provider) offered a chatbot using their own servers and hosted the traces and other data on the law firms own servers it would almost certainly be protected. But another case would need to happen to determine that.
But that only applies for clients using the chatbot. If a lawyer is using the LLM it is definitely protected. No different if a lawyer searches something on Google or Lexis Nexis. The search itself is protected. I guess you could debate metadata but the content surely is protected.
Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#29Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.
Rule of tech products: the nicer the splash page is, the worse the product is
Apple would like a word...
Re: Mike: open-source legal AI
#30I'm so tired of having to sign up to some new service even just to try it out.
So open up your new product to every random agent and griefer on the internet? Why would you do that?