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Hardly surprising, you try to automate lawyers they are going to get litigious.


Here’s a Twitter thread where a lawyer used their service for a few items. The results are significantly subpar. The noise about criminal referrals is just cover for the fact that their service was so bad, in my opinion.

https://twitter.com/kathryntewson/status/1617917837879963648


I think lawyers will be at pains to demonstrate how laughably bad the AI is when pushed. I don't blame them.


Eh, it would probably beat some bad lawyers


And a heck of a lot of lazy prosecutors who are just accustomed to winning because the proles aren't supposed to know the technicalities.


That's stage two. If the blanket ban-via-threatening-letters doesn't work.


Exactly, Unsurprising that DoNotPay was going to get sued to the ground and had to back out.


Its too bad they didn’t have a competent AI lawyer they could hace used to review their plan for gaping holes like violating the state unauthorized practice of law statute and local courtroom rules.

If they had, they could have saved thrmselves a lot of trouble, or designed a less-illegal publicity stunt.




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