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victor9000 • today at 6:10 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

I’m not sure if this is the right solution, but we clearly need better tools for the legal space. Anthropic's recent policy update makes this abundantly clear:

“When our products are used in ways that can affect someone's health, legal rights, finances, livelihood, or access to essential services, we require there to be a qualified ‘human in the loop’ (that is, someone who has the authority to review and, if necessary, change Claude’s recommendations), and for the individual affected to be told that AI was used.”

Something as common as a family law case has the potential to affect all of the above. Now imagine being a petitioner, respondent, paralegal, or other 3rd party using Claude to review a draft document only to find out that Anthropic has sent your entire file to opposing counsel.

It sounds egregious, but Anthropic is clearly stating they will use their own judgment to control what people can do with its product, and that they will treat customer data as if it's theirs to disseminate. So there's a massive opportunity for an unbiased tool willing to fill this void.


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gr_norm • today at 6:40 PM

Anthropic's paternalism is so irritating. I refuse to pay for their products, since they clearly don't respect me as a customer. And I actively discourage corporate procurers from getting in bed with them.

fc417fc802 • today at 6:16 PM

> Anthropic is clearly stating they will use their own judgment to control what people can do with its product

Haven't they been perfectly clear about that from day one with the ToS? I'm not saying I like it but it hardly seems unreasonable.

> they will treat customer data as if it's theirs to disseminate

Not sure where you're getting that. What you quoted in no way implies that.

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colechristensen • today at 6:13 PM

The traditional legal data brokers like Thompson Reuters provide AI solutions presumably with considerably better data governance.

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/innovation/thomso...

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calvinmorrison • today at 6:22 PM

it's like Uber, for lawyers!