Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming
Duhtocqueville@ttrpg.network 1 week agoI can only speak to my field, which is legal. Incomprehensible but prolific drivel has always been something the court system has struggled with getting through. That same drivel is now pretty good at pleading generalities but it’s awful at detailing facts.
You can get past the first hurdle in the legal world and unlock a massive and expensive cascade which AI can also effectively navigate for you.
In essence, AI can, very effectively, take an incoherent unreasonable and often mentally unwell litigant and magnify the expense of getting rid of their frivolous claim by over 100.
It’s almost assuredly going to 1. Chock the system. 2. Force massive reallocation of resources in the judiciary 3. Thereby vastly increasing not decreasing legal work. And 4. End up with valid claims being killed in a massive change in judicial attitude toward “clear enough” pleadings as they struggle with an AI influx.
Prediction:
Plaintiff: Submits AI formatted claim Judiciary: Uses AI to parse claim
Outcome: more people attempt claims because previously they were incapable of a cohesive claim, but overall time dealing with individual claims goes down. Probably not in the short term though.
I sincerely doubt it. Judges want to do justice. I think most people would call having a robot judge your pleadings and dismiss merit less claims as dystopian.
Even if it was just “parsing” that’s a layer between you and the judge. Probably also dystopian.
It doesn’t matter what most people want. It matters what the wealthy and well connected want. The idea of an AI judge they can control is too big of a temptation. The concept of free legal team is too good to be true. The reality of an AI lawyer who will work tirelessly for a fraction of what a real lawyer would is our future.
Just like they are already pushing AI teachers and doing trial runs on AI doctors. They are coming for the expensive thinking professions first as was predicted.
sunsofold@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Ugh. I hadn’t even thought of AI slop litigation. These companies are giving a firehose to the mentally ill as a monthly subscription.
Duhtocqueville@ttrpg.network 6 days ago
If only. If you google an AI specifically for litigation you’ll get websites selling weekly access for just shy of $500.
I often get very large pleading dumps immediately prior to a hearing instead of at a more logical time and I think it’s the pro se scrounging the money together for another fix of an expensive AI website.
sunsofold@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
At least that’s prohibitively expensive for a lot of people. It’d be so much worse if it was affordable by more people.
Duhtocqueville@ttrpg.network 6 days ago
I don’t know. I mean it’s probably a very bad model and these people are just being scammed for a gpt 3.0. I can’t say I like them but I still abhor a scam.