"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 🤔.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Isnt this the AI that they managed to teach how to fuck up mathematics and insist on the fuckups being correct?

    I dont think you gotta buy into this just cause all of a sudden the default techbro spiel of "shifting the balance" and "giving power to the people" happens to coincide with an actual area where it sounds better than elsewhere.

    This guy literally isn't even a lawyer, hes a 19 year old techbro with a background in US NGO shit like "Freedom House", the place that churns out the maps that mark the "international community" countries as mega free and everyone else as authoritarian 1984.

    Edit: Also the "jail threat" is because you can't just practice law and represent someone else without a license, you can represent yourself in some cases cause you're the one getting affected, but if you dont have a license and fuck up or do malpractice its not like they could punish you for it like a lawyer can have their license revoked.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yup. ChatGPT cannot defend a court case or write a report. Even helping you do those things is complicated and dangerous.

      The model doesn't know facts. It doesn't know truth from falsehood. It doesn't know legal procedures, or legal history. It's a ML model that generates plausible sounding text, nothing more.

    • beanyor [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It can generate really convincing legalese but it is fundamentally incapable of understanding logic.

    • old_goat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      With the banning of the lawyer chatbot, guess which nation just left the mega free list!