Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots

[dgerard@awful.systems]

Your ‘cognitive sparring partner’

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https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251202-lawyers-find-more-work-cleaning-up-after-ai-bots - podcast

time: 4 min 11 sec

Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots

The Australian Financial Review runs a regular Law Partnership Survey. Lawyers who are partners in the firms are up about 3% — but the number of non-partner lawyers, paid on a fee basis to churn th…

Pivot to AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

The more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs.

I mean, trust but verify is a thing for a reason.

[lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems]

You cannot honestly call it "trust" if you still have to go through the output with a magnifying glass and make sure it didn't tell anyone to put glue on their pizza.

When any other technology fails to achieve its stated purpose, we call it flawed and unreliable. But AI is so magical! It receives credit for everything it happens to get right, and it's my fault when it gets something wrong.

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

The business must have some level of trust to deploy the tool.

[bluemonday1984@awful.systems]

They are trusting a "tool" that categorically cannot be trusted. They are fools to trust it.

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

Yes they are fools.