AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession(www.theregister.com)
8 pointsby blackcoffeerain16 hours ago4 comments
  • jqpabc12316 hours ago
    I've been saying this for over a year now --- AI is a legal liability issue waiting to happen.

    And not just in the legal field. The problem boils down to the very fundamental fact that AI is based on probability and statistics.

    The results can't be legally defended in many cases because they are not derived from a reasonable, logical, reproduceable decision making process.

    Here is an example from the medical industry. Really *important* results shouldn't be decided by a dice roll.

    https://pub.towardsai.net/the-air-gapped-chronicles-the-cour...

    • johngriffin14 minutes ago
      This is an example of an insurance claim that was denied by AI. The insurance company was ordered to explain the AI decision making process, which they were unable to. Specifically they were unable to provide the llm settings such as temperature, the specific prompt used etc.

      Legal AI tools are generally not used for decision making but for improving productivity of legal professionals, for example by helping to review large amounts of contracts. Ultimately lawyers have to review the work and take responsibility for it's correctness. We actually aim to reduce error rates overall. In the case of CompleteFlow, our agentic platform for contract and document processing, we also provide access to all those settings that were demanded by the judge in this case since we do single tenent private cloud hosting and customers can select the models and settings they want to use for a cost / performance trade-off.

  • treetalker14 hours ago
    Apparently The Register changed the title of this article. Someone posted it 10 hours before this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749485
  • Terr_15 hours ago
    Pessimistic prediction: Companies are already using mandatory arbitration provisions in contracts, some will want a not-really "Expert System" to do the arbitration.

    That said, an unscrupulous and lazy judge can already betray their position by outsourcing to an LLM in a personal capacity.

  • krishna314515 hours ago
    Its the same thing , Happening for a while.