> You don't need to check every cite; that will have been done for you by the lawyers and judges involved in that case.
Why would this be different with an AI assistant to help you? It's not a binary "do or do not". Just because you have an assistant doesn't mean you don't do anything. Kind of like driver assist can handle some of the load vs full self-driving.
> But checking every cite in an AI's output: many of those citations won't exist, and for the ones that do, you'll need to closely read all of them to confirm that they say what the AI claims they say, or are even within the ballpark of what the AI claims they say.
But you'd have to do this anyway if you did all the research yourself. At least the AI assistant can help give you some good leads so you don't have to start from scratch. A lazy lawyer could skip some verifying, but a good lawyer would still benefit from an AI assistant as was my original bet, just like they would benefit from interns or paralegals, etc. And all those interns and paralegals could still be there, helping verify facts.
But you'd have to do this anyway if you did all the research yourself. At least the AI assistant can help give you some good leads so you don't have to start from scratch.
No, that's exactly the opposite of what I'm saying. If you did the research yourself, you wouldn't need to verify every cite once you find a relevant source/cite, because previous lawyers would have already validated the citations contained within that source. (A good lawyer should validate at least some of those cites, but frequently that's not necessary unless you're dealing with big stakes.)
And the AI assistant, at least this one and the ones based on ChatGPT, don't provide good leads. They provide crap leads that not only don't exist, but increase the amount of work. And any "AI" based on LLM will never be capable of providing good cites, because they'll never understand what they're reading and/or citing, and they'll miss relevant citations that are not statistically likely (i.e., new case law, or cases with similar facts, or similar law, or otherwise similar contexts that can be applied to the case at hand) that a context-aware AI or living breathing human would find easily.
At best, LLM-based AI might be able to help people with very simple legal situations. But you don't need AI for that. A single decision tree is easier to implement, and it's even easier to verify the domain-specific process and outcomes to make sure you don't get something silly like happened with this "AI".
Why would this be different with an AI assistant to help you? It's not a binary "do or do not". Just because you have an assistant doesn't mean you don't do anything. Kind of like driver assist can handle some of the load vs full self-driving.
> But checking every cite in an AI's output: many of those citations won't exist, and for the ones that do, you'll need to closely read all of them to confirm that they say what the AI claims they say, or are even within the ballpark of what the AI claims they say.
But you'd have to do this anyway if you did all the research yourself. At least the AI assistant can help give you some good leads so you don't have to start from scratch. A lazy lawyer could skip some verifying, but a good lawyer would still benefit from an AI assistant as was my original bet, just like they would benefit from interns or paralegals, etc. And all those interns and paralegals could still be there, helping verify facts.