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As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

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  1. dabinat · · focus · HN ↗
    My experience with lawyers is that if you need a legal document, they often have templates ready to go and will take 10 seconds to find & replace your company name into the document. I know this because they often don’t proofread it afterwards. They then charge you $1000 for that 10 seconds of work. Given that I have felt ripped off by many lawyers, I’m totally fine with that industry getting disrupted.
    1. hackyhacky · · focus · HN ↗
      > I’m totally fine with that industry getting disrupted.

      Because you'd rather pay your $1000 to OpenAI for 5 milliseconds of work, instead of to a human lawyer for 10 seconds of work?

      1. atoav · · focus · HN ↗
        You pay the human because you assume they take responsibility in this being correct. If they literally copy-paste without checking they are no better than AI. In fact they may be worse.
        1. hackyhacky · · focus · HN ↗
          My comment was not intended to express support of using AI instead of lawyers, but rather to express the pointlessness of "disrupting" human lawyers.
        2. tzs · · focus · HN ↗
          If they literally copy-paste without checking and it turns out the AI was wrong and you suffer harm from that you can sue the lawyer for malpractice.
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