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close04today at 11:39 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's in the viewable text on the page.

> A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege.

By now everyone knows that AI notes that aren't curated by a human will catch every silly thing that was said in the meeting while omitting the context of the tone or body language. Something as simple as "yeah, right" has vastly different meanings depending on how it was said. In a different context it's already been established that using AI breaks client attorney privilege [0] and this concern has been raised before by law firms [1][2] or the American Bar Association [3] (you can just hit escape before the paywall loads to see the full content). A judge will have to weigh in on this one too.

I don't know what's with the wave of paywalled articles that keep making it to the front page without any workaround included in the submission. Even when you coax the text out of the page source, they're not very insightful to begin with.

[0] https://perkinscoie.com/insights/update/federal-court-rules-...

[1] https://www.smithlaw.com/newsroom/publications/the-silent-gu...

[2] https://natlawreview.com/article/when-ai-takes-notes-protect...

[3] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/gpsolo/resources/ereport/...


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vintagedavetoday at 1:17 PM

> It's in the viewable text on the page.

Not for me - there was no viewable text.

pjc50today at 11:49 AM

People opt in to the panopticon and then discover they have no more secrets. I'm surprised lawyers fall for that as well.

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lukewarm707today at 12:00 PM

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