Lawyers are going to be screwed in the very, very near future

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It is one of the first professions I thought was going to be fucked when I saw AI blew up the internet a year or so ago.

No more lawyers charging you $800 an hour.

 
RoastBeast said:
You'd kill yourself if you attempted to fully use Chat GPT to do electrical repair in your house. I think it'll be a while before AI really starts taking over.
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Exactly. And if you actually need to argue in a hearing or court, or do anything that isn’t only written, you will need a lawyer.

But let’s say AI did take over nearly every occupation. In other words, we expanded the amount of production humans are capable of, while using only capital (AI), and no labor (jobs for people).

Do you really want to let the wealthiest 1% reap the rewards of all that extra production while everyone else has to line up at the docks every day and hope they can work for pennies?

Or do you want to mandate a universal basic income so that everyone has enough money to survive, and can work to earn more?


I think the answer is obvious. Yet everyone hears UBI and screams “Communism! Noooo!”

Trust me, the alternative, which is feudalism, is much worse. And also a UBI isn’t communism anyway.
 
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I knew before I even open this thread that it'd be some AI slop glazing. Chat GPT can't even consistently beat sub 1000 ELO players in chess. It's not about to upend the legal system any time soon.
 
AI saved me from a fire, it warned me against something, thank heavens. Its a great for mankind but it has to be used wisely.
 
I find it does a good job for boilerplate contracts. I was paying $400-600 an hour for contract review. You have to work with it but there is a lot of legal stuff that is more or less copy and pasting text blocks. I think that more or less it will get you something decent if you are smart enough to use it well.
 
ChatGPT got me out of a few DUI's, a couple of indecent exposure charges and multiple counts relating to an attempted coup of Bolivia. It's legit. My human lawyer got me convicted on every indecent exposure charge I ever had before that
 
Kardashians said:
AI gives misinformation about bunny care and y’all gonna trust it with your court cases?

You do you I guess. It’s gonna suck tho.
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Ai must be held accountable for giving misinformation about bunny care!
 
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F1980 said:
It is one of the first professions I thought was going to be fucked when I saw AI blew up the internet a year or so ago.

No more lawyers charging you $800 an hour.

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Yes lawyers are going to get hit big time. My field too as i work in finance.
 
milliniar said:
They have to fix the hallucinations first. ChatGot has referenced non existent case laws.
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That AI was probably smoking meth with the other cool AI's and flunked law school.
 
Universal basic income will surely lead to quick destruction of society or slavery. I used to work with many truly stupid lazy assholes and they don't deserve shit. I don't like the idea of those shits reaping benefits while smart people do all the work.
 
Maybe. But law is also weird in a lot of ways.

First of all, very few clients are impressed by AI. To the contrary, most clients would be horrified to learn that you used AI to advance a part of their case. Most clients want smart humans on the job.

Secondly, the price of legal services is not competitive in the typical sense. Law firms generally speaking do not try to compete on price. To the contrary, law firms generally try to signal that they're higher quality by charging higher prices, and many (sophisticated) clients perceive the higher price as indicative of higher quality service.
 
That is something my father is regularly doing. He uses AI to create legal documents. He does HOA work, and the other day helped his older brother with setting up a trust account.

With the HOA legal work, as my father was saying, a recent project he helped with would have cost about $5000 if an attorney did the work. Now that money can be spent on improving the neighborhood further, with new trees, flowers, etc.
 
RoastBeast said:
You'd kill yourself if you attempted to fully use Chat GPT to do electrical repair in your house. I think it'll be a while before AI really starts taking over.
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As an ex-electrician, more folks should try it and see. Would be fairly hilarious.
 
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