The GenAI v Verification debate took place in November, after I blogged about the GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice. That blog post, following a heated debate on LinkedIn with those comments added to the post, ended up being 15,612 words long. Most people won’t now read it. Our attention spans are too short in…
My post on The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice stirred up a lot of debate. I thought I would ask GenAI to summarise the arguments for me (after all that is its main use case). Using Copilot I obtained this summary: The article argues that while generative AI (GenAI) promises efficiency in legal practice,…
The GenAI verification burden in legal practice has been highlighted by Joshua Yuvaraj in a recent paper on ‘The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice‘ [PDF]. The Abstract reads: It is often claimed that machine learning-based generative AI products will drastically streamline and reduce the cost of legal practice. This…
Blank Page Law. Did it exist 30 years ago? Does it exist today? Richard W Smith posted, the other day on LinkedIn, a link to a post by Seth Godwin that, as Richard put it, is “about how professions have changed over a 30 year period in less than 100 words.” Seth Godwin’s post reads:…
What is the connection between moving house, automation, lawyers and GenAI? Well, I recently spent time helping move my mother-in-law out of a house she has been in for 30 years as she downsizes and relocates. As anyone who has moved house knows, it is a major operation. Even more involved when you can’t take…
Elwood is the latest AI for Law start-up to launch on the burgeoning Legal Technology market. Elwood is the brainchild of serial Law Tech entrepreneur Sidney James. I sat down with Sidney to discuss his latest venture and find out what was “real” about Elwood compared to other AI for Law offerings on the market….
Are lawyers or machines responsible for errors (otherwise known as hallucinations) in GenAI legal research output? This was a point drawn out in some of the many comments and the, at times, heated debate that flowed from my blog post from last week: ChatGPT + Lawyers v Horizon + The Post Office In that post…
What does ChatGPT and Lawyers have to do with Horizon and The Post Office Scandal? This past week the country (UK) has been collectively transfixed, outraged and disillusioned by Mr Bates v The Post Office on ITV. A drama about the real life events known commonly as ‘The Post Office Scandal‘. One of the widest…
In September 2023, Denis Potemkin of Majoto organised and chaired ‘The Great AI [in Law] Debate’ between me and Nicola Shaver. I am now managing to get around to posting about that on here to add to my series on Legal Chatbots. The debate motion was: Generative AI already enhances the delivery of legal services,…
Last week I published a blog post about Inksterâs Law. This week I am following up on that post with what ChatGPT made of it over the past week and the hallucinations it had in the process. Inksterâs Law is the 2:1 ratio of time needed to check for accuracy of AI generated material. It…
Inkster’s Law is a term coined, this past week, on LinkedIn by Gav Ward. It all started with a LinkedIn post by Dan Hunter. Dan starts the post with: Ok, here is my first pass at full syllabus for a comprehensive Legal GenAI subject… (What have I missed? Will post explanations, teaching notes, and references…
Legal Geek 2023 was the one with Withnail and GenAI. Legal Geek 2023: Withnail No big surprise that GenAI was being overcooked at Legal Geek 2023, but what was Withnail doing there? Withnail’s alter ego, Richard E. Grant, was giving a keynote discussion on ‘grief and its impact’. Perhaps to prepare the GenAI evangelists for…
