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But here’s the thing: it will be ''lawyers'' who start to use [[ChatGPT]] as a tool, not their clients. Why? ''Because of that [[ineffability]]''. [[ChatGPT]] is a pattern-matching device. It understands nothing. It cannot provide unmediated legal advice. It can only ever be a “back-breaker”: the “last mile” needs a human who knows what she is doing, understands the context and complicated human psychology at play in the cauldron of commercial negotiation. An LLM can draw pretty figures, but it cannot do that. Nor can it write legal opinions — well, meaningful ones — and nor, unmediated, does it have the insurance policy or deep, suable pockets for which a client is paying when it asks for one. | But here’s the thing: it will be ''lawyers'' who start to use [[ChatGPT]] as a tool, not their clients. Why? ''Because of that [[ineffability]]''. [[ChatGPT]] is a pattern-matching device. It understands nothing. It cannot provide unmediated legal advice. It can only ever be a “back-breaker”: the “last mile” needs a human who knows what she is doing, understands the context and complicated human psychology at play in the cauldron of commercial negotiation. An LLM can draw pretty figures, but it cannot do that. Nor can it write legal opinions — well, meaningful ones — and nor, unmediated, does it have the insurance policy or deep, suable pockets for which a client is paying when it asks for one. | ||
An LLM can only be deployed, that is to say, by someone with | An [[LLM]] can only be deployed, that is to say, by someone with skin in the game; who puts herself in jeopardy by accepting the assignment, which jeopardy she defends by the simple expedient of ''knowing what she is doing''. | ||
That someone will be a ''lawyer''. | That someone will be a ''lawyer''. | ||
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Now such a “last mile” lawyer ''could'' use an [[LLM]] to simplify documents, accelerate research and break legal problems down to significant essences, thereby reducing the cost, and increasing the value, of her service to her clients. And sure, in theory, she ''could'' give all this value up for nothing. | Now such a “last mile” lawyer ''could'' use an [[LLM]] to simplify documents, accelerate research and break legal problems down to significant essences, thereby reducing the cost, and increasing the value, of her service to her clients. And sure, in theory, she ''could'' give all this value up for nothing. | ||
But she ''could'', just as easily, use an [[LLM]] to further ''complicate'' documents | But she ''could'', just as easily, use an [[LLM]] to further ''complicate'' the documents: to overengineer, to convolute language, invent options and cover contingencies of only marginal utility: she could set her tireless symbol-processing engine to the task of ''injecting infinitesimal detail'': she could amp up the ineffability to a level beyond a normal human’s patience. She will do this with only the best intentions, of course; this is not lily-gilding so much as a noble outreach toward perfection: using the arsenal at her disposal to reach ever closer to the Platonic form. | ||
Which of these, realistically, do we expect a self-respecting lawyer to do? [[Simplify]], or complicate? To sacrifice time ''and'' [[ineffability]], for the betterment of her clients and the general better comprehension of the unspecialised world? Or would she plough her energy into using this magical new tool generate ''more'' convolution, ineffability, and recorded time? | Which of these, realistically, do we expect a self-respecting lawyer to do? [[Simplify]], or complicate? To sacrifice time ''and'' [[ineffability]], for the betterment of her clients and the general better comprehension of the unspecialised world? Or would she plough her energy into using this magical new tool generate ''more'' convolution, ineffability, and recorded time? | ||