Puts on Lawyers. Profession will dead within a couple decades

Not if it was a beetroot dye

Seriously, can we stop with the stupid gender-reveal parties? Least favorite trend ever.

Well... not biased? It' a machine, duh┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

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All they gotta do is push the " off" button!!

True, but if the machines proved to be quite excellent and cost efficient, I have faith the current laws would change to include licensing programs to do those kinds of work.

I'm good with both and all honestly. End the profession problem once and for all.

Can we all agree that the lady who started this bullshit should be held accountable for all the fuckery from her great idea?

It's hard for tech to understand but real professions typically have some sort of actual qualifications you need to participate. Like a drivers license to operate a car, for example, or passing the bar to be allowed to argue cases for other people in court. But hey, dIsRuPt

From the article they were basically reminding the ceo that he wasn't permitted to offer legal advice without a bar license. If someone sold AI to hospitals to replace doctors, the state bars of medicine would be rightfully upset.

How can someone cook an attorney AI while being so legally illiterate is beyond me.

I kind of feel like most judges wouldn't accept this sort of Cyrano de Bergarac lawyering.

It does. AI to help find cases at least

Marines need crayons, too. You gotta eat to fight.

Tables should turn and give us more balance, with access to excellent lawyers for the average joe.

The rich are going to absolutely hate it.

Seems like this would be easy to setup if there was an attorney with ALS. Just put them in a Hawking style wheelchair and use the simulated voice to make it appear that the attorney was the one doing the talking.

Bored lawyer.

Nah I can easily believe that lawyers would sue anyone or anything claiming to replace them.

Source: Am lawyer. Licensing of notaries, paralegals, advocates, is always contentious. Lawyers don't just argue the law, in most cases they've written in. More baked in than doctors, and try fuck with them.

On the upside, cheaper legal services via AI. On the downside, won't be that much cheaper because professional liability insurance and you lose the ability to work between the lines, make an emotional appeal, etc. A robo lawyer arguing a family law custody case will probably not be as effective as a robo lawyer arguing a debt collection case. But if I can ask an AI to research caselaw instead of doing searches myself, great.

The reporter apparently didn’t see these letters from prosecutors and bar associations to prove actually exist. I wouldn’t have taken this scammer’s word for it. I wonder if the tech failed in a mock hearing and he didn’t want to get embarrassed, and this is the cover story.

Yes, because artists are scum and lawyers are angels, obviously

most professional work is just busy work that exists to justify itself anyway

as the article shows, you cant do it because lawyers will sue you

now if this company had hired a lawyer themselves and the AI was just "providing legal information" and not legal advice, that might be different

the worst enemy one man can have is a retired (fired/out of job) lawyer.

The guy who runs it seems to be a fraud. There's a good twitter thread with KathrynTewson (a really good paralegal) who went through the DonotPay system to submit a few things to see what she would get. Several of them never generated anything at all and the ones that did generate were obviously nothing more than filling out a template; no AI needed.

She then got into it with the CEO, who banned her account after changing the terms of service. While Kathryn exposed his lie and document forging in regards to making donations.

ETA: DonotPay has since shut down its legal document AI services to focus on "consumer rights"

That's partially why I'm so concerned. This tech will almost certainly be disproportionately used by people who are either unable to afford a real lawyer or who are distrustful of the legal system and lawyers, and those kinds of people are already extremely vulnerable and have a hard time navigating the legal system, even without shoddy unregulated technology supposedly helping them.

I'm sure we'll get to the point where this isn't a pipe dream one day, but that day ain't today, and in the meantime it could do a lot of damage to a lot of people, even in something as generally low-stakes as traffic court.