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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. otterley · · focus · HN ↗
      This reminds me of the parable about the plumber.

      A plumber comes over to repair a broken water heater. He looks at it, taps a pipe with his wrench, and it's fixed. He hands the customer a bill for $500. The customer becomes angry because all the plumber did was tap a pipe, and demands to see an itemized bill.

      The plumber dutifully provides the bill:

      * Pipe tapping: $5

      * Knowing where to tap: $495

      1. revolvingthrow · · focus · HN ↗
        Except in this analogy the plumber didn't know where to tap, or knew and didn't care enough to tap in the right place.

        I can tap a pipe in a random spot for a lot less than $500.

        1. rpunkfu · · focus · HN ↗
          They can fill random document as well, it’s their expertise which template to use that fills your scenario and additionally once it gets to subtle nuances, you don’t want to do those yourself either.
      2. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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      3. analog31 · · focus · HN ↗
        The other version of this joke:

        Customer: $500 for 10 minutes of work? That's more than I make as a brain surgeon.

        Plumber: It's more than I made as a brain surgeon too.

      4. harpersealtako · · focus · HN ↗
        alternatively:

        pipe tapping: $5

        knowing where to tap: $95

        taking on the legal liability and accountability in case the water heater explodes: $400

        ChatGPT is more than capable of telling you where to tap, but you can't sue openAI if it gets it wrong and your water heater explodes.

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