Opinion | Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine
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A.I. is looking less like an all-powerful being and more like an unreliable intern.
  • skillissuerEnglish
    19·
    7 months ago

    so your process of getting legal advice is:

    1. ask chatgpt, which will output convincing blob of text, with references and sources that might or might be not real, relevant, or make sense, some of which you won’t be able to judge
    2. then, ask a real lawyer about this, which means that they have to make sense of the situation on their own but also dig through machine generated drivel, which means that they need more time for that, and this means extra cost/wasted effort

    how does that simplify anything

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      Look it’s a really cheap and fast way of going from potential lawsuit to actual damages! That’s progress, that is!

      [ed note: since I can’t markup-joke it in a way that survives lemmy: to be read in pratchett voice)

      • skillissuerEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Not the worst? 48th percentile is basically “average lawyer”. I don’t need a Supreme Court lawyer to argue my parking ticket.

        In a worst case scenario if my local lawyer can use AI to generate a letter and just quickly go through it to make sure it didn’t hallucinate