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usrusrtoday at 9:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Not sure what exactly you're referring to, but legal is a very interesting field to observe, right? I've been wondering about that since quite early in my LLM awareness:

A slightly sarcastic (or perhaps not so slightly..) mental model of legal conflict resolution is that much of it boils down to throwing lots of content at the opposing side, claiming that it shows that the represented side is right and creating a task for the opposite side to find a flaw in that material. I believe that this game of quantity fits through the whole range from "I'll have my lawyer repeat my argument in a letter featuring their letter head" all the way to paper-tsunamis like the Google-Oracle trial.

Now give both sides access to LLM... I wonder if the legal profession will eventually settle on some format of in-person offline resolution with strict limits to recess and/or limits to word count for both documents and notes, because otherwise conflicts fail to get settled in anyone's lifetime (or won by whoever does not run out of tokens first - come thinking of it, the technogarchs would love this, so I guess this is exactly what will happen barring a revolution)


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tossandthrowtoday at 10:27 AM

Ah, sorry. I am not referring to using LLMs for legal work.

I am referring to the act of merely pasting the output of a model as a comment.

Have the decency to understand what the LLM is writing and write your own message.

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63stacktoday at 12:41 PM

What do you mean "not exactly sure what you are referring to"?

The guy just posted a huge ai slop pr, do you think that's the correct place for "very interesting field observations about legal"?

What else could it refer to than you can't back up copyright ownership questions with "ai said so"??