@edsantos@ciberlandia.ptI used to think ChatGPT was a threat to lawyers. So far, it's been great.
I'm dealing with an opposing party who's clearly using it to answer pre-litigation emails. They're very arrogantly giving me 100% wrong legal takes to justify their actions - and all in writing!
Easiest case ever. And fun!
I LOVE this. Just sent it to a few attorneys I work with.
@edsantos ...and then you reported them to the bar, right? or whatever it is lawyers do when they find other lawyers defrauding their clients like this?
This is fun for you but someone is paying these people in good faith to do actual legal work.
@edsantos@carapace it's not a lawyer, they are a very small company which, I assume, think they need no legal advice handling this because they can ask ChatGPT. Even a bad lawyer would have prevented their mistakes.
And tbh I can't even tell if the wrong answers are due to ChatGPT itself (I can't know exactly what they asked or what it replied), or if it's just the overconfidence it gives them, making them feel equipped to handle the matter while having zero legal knowledge. For example, the legal deadlines (a set number of days) they cite from the law are correct, they just have no clue how to count them (some strange rules on that). And there is nothing wrong with some legal arguments they use, technically speaking. It's just that they clearly do not apply to the specific situation.
@edsantos Oh dang, that's so sad. What's the old saw? "Who represents themselves has a fool for a client."?
@edsantos
And Jesus weeped.
Not sure about the USA, but here around you need attorneys even if you were a fully trained lawyer and fully understood the law still to tell you how the local courts apply the law in practice.
So aiming ChatGPT (and that's a incredibly stupid choice of AI tool) would be perfect, it still wouldn't be able to assess which of these legal texts are more important (locally).
And ChatGPT is far from perfect. As the original poster mentioned.
@carapace
@retrosponge@kind.social@edsantos Take 'em to the cleaners.
@edsantos law school is expensive. You’re about to teach them why, and also how much more expensive not going to law school is.
Give em hell 
@finserra@opensocial.media@edsantos My position since the dawn of AI is that it will be the Lawyers Full Employment Act of the 21st Century. Yours is an interesting twist, but the number of contractual, mechanical, and business errors and damages that will fall out from its use will be incalculable. Just look at how it auto-captions videos. Best comedy I've seen in years.
@edsantos as a technologist with a legal research degree this makes me endlessly happy. Keep up the good work while they keep digging up.
@jpaskaruk@growers.social@edsantos The one thing I wanted to be true... but I knew.