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Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision

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Re: Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision

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I am not sure how it works in Colombia but in many countries, court judgements are lengthy documents that summarise all the aspects of a case before detailing the rationale for the decision. It feels awfully inefficient. Any tool that can help this process sounds like a good idea to me. It's no different to ChatGPT generating some dumb boiler plate code that you can adapt, correct and fine tune instead of having to write it from scratch.

Re: Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision

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Could be interesting to use embeddings so you could get proper legal citations. This could be a great leveler, making it easier to self-represent…

Here's a video from Legal Eagle on the topic from yesterday:

https://youtu.be/Tpq3hRt0pmw

Tl;Dw it's a cold shower on this idea as it's implemented by the startup DoNotPay. There are a myriad of issues but the biggest one is that it isn't possible to foist the liability onto the customer and thus skirt the regulations around the unlicensed practice of law - if you run this service, you are either a law firm or you are a criminal enterprise.

Maybe it could be made to work though, this particular startup doesn't seem to have the deep understanding of the law that would be necessary for the project to succeed. If one started from the assumption they were an AI-assisted budget law firm, rather than an Uber or AirBNB style "we're just gunnuh break the law and get away with it, until we can eventually lobby to change the law," perhaps it could work.

Re: Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision

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Oh interesting. I didn't realize chatgpt works in multiple languages

I mean it just studies relations between words, so I can be trained for any language as long as there is content for it.

Though not sure it can distinguish colombian law vs any other spanish speaking country law.

Re: Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision

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Oh interesting. I didn't realize chatgpt works in multiple languages

Not only that it is probably the best translation engine ever made. It translates incredibly well. This is likely one of the industries that is going to be hit severely.

depending on the domain !! it is absolutely confident, right, wrong or in the middle.. actually "dangerous" if you think about a few contexts
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