I guess the type of lawyer that does this would be the same that would offload research to paralegals, without properly valuing that as real work, and somehow believe it can be substituted by AI, maybe they never engage their braincells, and just view lawyering as a performative dance to appease the legal gods?
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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word i hear is that too many lawyers fucking love this shit, they see plausible words and think that's sufficient to ~~replace~~ supplement the office peons
then this happens to them and lol
Stupid sexy robot judge...
One thing an adversarial judicial system like the American one is that if one party sloppily use GenAI to write their documents, they can lose, because the other party can point that out. A lot of the excuses to use LLMs in software development is that modern software development is terrible anyway, so if you can get your slop to market faster than some other schlub, you probably won't lose customers. When there's a balanced incentive to point out hallucinations, they (hopefully) won't get that far.
When there’s a balanced incentive to point out hallucinations, they (hopefully) won’t get that far.
That I can see. Unlike software "engineering", law is a field which has high and exacting standards - and faltering even slightly can lead to immediate and serious consequences.