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It's kinda-crazy the degree to which legal data--which you need for a fair trial under the law--is locked up by monopolistic brokers.

FFS, we're already at the edge of having to pay to know what the laws even are. [0]

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/pro-codes-act-wolf-she...

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Such speculation is just fear mongering and that is exactly what the daft bullies want.
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It's not speculation, it's simple fact. Both Lexis and Westlaw already have LLM integration that smokes the frontier models in this regard.

The best legal professionals, just like the best software engineers, have wholly embraced LLM assistance.

"Gee, we bill $700/hr but just can't figure out how to put a prompt into a chat interface." Please.

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No they don't, and no they haven't.

LLMs have been making so many mistakes that the big firms have slowed or even paused their LLM spend. And that was before CA passed a law relating legal AI use.

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