Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice

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• qwestjest78@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find it useless for even basic tasks. The fact that some people follow it blindly like a god is so concerning.

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I work in a health-care-adjacent industry and you’d be surprised how many people blindly follow LLMs for medical advice 

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    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My partners midwife googled stuff in front of us and parroted the AI summary back to us when we asked if a specific drug was okay for pregnant people

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    • qwestjest78@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No I don’t think I would be actually. People have turned to Google for health advice for a long time now. Ai is the next logical step for them.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A lot of people are very stupid, and also very easily tricked/conned.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s been doing wonders to help me improve materials I produce so that they fit better to some audiences. Also I can use those to spot missing points / inconsistencies against the ton of documents we have in my shop when writing something. It’s quite useful when using it as a sparing partner so far.

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    • The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s great when you have basic critical thinking skills.

      Unfortunately, many people don’t have those and just use AI as a substitute for their own brain.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rule of thumb is that AI can be useful if you use it for things you already know.
      They can save time and if they produce shit, you’ll notice.
      Don’t use them for things you know nothing about.

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rearranging text is a vastly different use case than diagnosis and relevant information retrieval

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  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I only found one usecase where it shines and even then I had to verify the output twice to make sure it doesn’t fuck up before I push it into production. String manipulation is pretty good with it instead of having to write a bash one liner with a lot of sed and awk

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone with domain specific knowledge*

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• elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If a chatbot gives you bad advice, it’s your responsibility to. If a lawyer gives you bad advice, it’s the lawyer’s responsibility.

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes please. More folks need to all in on the idiocy of trusting an AI for legal advice. Let’s get this public lesson over with.

  This is one of the cases where they can simply be a hilarious example for the rest of us, rather than getting a bunch of the rest of us killed.

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• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly if you are that dependent on A.I. now when it’s still in a test phase then you are already lost, A.I. won’t make us smarter if anything it has the opposite effect.

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m watching that happen in my industry (software development). There’s this massive pressure campaign by damn near everyone’s employers in software dev to use LLM tools.

    It’s causing developers to churn out terrible, fragile, unmaintainable code at a breakneck pace, while they’re actively forgetting how to code for themselves.

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• Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile I strongly suspect our legal reviewer of using chatgpt to review contracts, because he sends some laughably stupid comments that look fully AI generated.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not a new thing, doctors had this for at least a decade with WebMD.

  No, you don’t have cancer

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With a coding agent, it’s wrong a lot and the code is usually terrible, but it can get working code with proper tests to create a feedback loop.

  How does that go with legal work? Well, turns out that was mostly made-up bullshit and the judge gave a jail sentence for contempt of court, but once I get out, I’ll generate some more slop that will hopefully go over better next time.

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• Archer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems pretty simple to me, you pay lawyers so that you don’t have to pay even more by getting legally screwed over. Why try and cheap out on the insurance policy against bigger losses and risk it all collapsing?

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  • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lawyers are no guarantee. They are sloppy because they have no skin in the game, and they usually get paid regardless (although some have “uplift” fees which reward them for winning).

    It is like hiring builders for your renovation. You still have to keep an eye on them and even tell them how to do their job, which of course is always a tense situation.

    Best avoid situations which need a lawyer. Do not litigate lightly.

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• DGen@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People do Not make a difference. You can use it for Help, guidance or whatever. 

  But never, especially with law, Trust it. Fact Check.

  Well. But Look at this cat playing a trombone.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  let them find out

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