"Multiple state bar associations have threatened us," Browder said. "One even said a referral to the district attorney's office and prosecution and prison time would be possible."
"The truth is, most people can't afford lawyers," he said. "This could've shifted the balance and allowed people to use tools like ChatGPT in the courtroom that maybe could've helped them win cases."
Cant have robot stealing jobs from lawyers, can you imagine a machine replacing you with no prospect of compensation? What kind of society does that with the threat of poverty 🤔.
It's more for people that get railroaded for minor offenses because they can't afford the expensive lawyer to get them off because they don't know the exact magic incantation to say to the judge to not get max sentenced on misdemeanors.
Ive literally seen two people, on the same day in court, in there for the exact same crime, same circumstances, go up one after the other. One has the expensive lawyer, one doesn't know what is going on.
First guy gets off without even a fine, second guy 2 years probation and a week in jail.
And probation isnt just like showing up once a month. You have to pay for that. It's expensive. And if you don't they hold jail time over your head.
Holy shit :amerikkka:
Yeah our legal system is literally just there to make sure poors stay in line, and the ones that don't get the absolute piss beaten out of them until they do, or just throw them in prison for the free labor.
How do you know the lawyer didn't just spout nonsense and the judge just decided each case based on defendant income? Your free AI lawyer does nothing to address that issue.
Because it was me. I was the guy getting railroaded.
My friend in the court next to me had much more money than I did, from his family, and I had none.
Neither of us with any criminal background either.
Now more than ever I'm convinced that the judge went lenient on your friend because he looked like Brock Turner (affluent and going places) and an AI lawyer wouldn't make any difference in outcomes for indigent defendants like the rest of us.
I mean I had options I didn't know about. The state I live in has a plea for leniency for first time misdemeanors, but you have to know to say that to the judge. that's how the friend got off, that's what his actual lawyer did because he knew the specific incantation to say lol
So if anyone had bothered to mention that to me, I would've been fine. The counsel I had didn't bother to check if I had a record or not.
Just anything to tell people what is going on and what your options are is infinitely better than just showing up to court and having no idea what is going on.
I definitely don't see it as a solution, but it's fuckin something at all to give defendants an idea of what is about to occur to them
We already have the solution for this: public defenders. Yes, they're overworked and underpaid (on purpose), but the fact remains that they are the solution to this problem, not some fancy whizbang technology.
Yeah no shit people getting representation is a much better solution...
But since the representation they get as it stands is completely garbage, and it would require a complete restructuring of the entire system, this would be a nice little helpful tool to people who otherwise aren't getting proper representation