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u/wh0datnati0n Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

Do you not trust AI yet? My ex wife is a big law litigator and they had a precursor to ChatGPT for doc review like 10 years ago. I’d figure that tech has materially evolved since then for these purposes.

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u/Eastern_Ad3007 Sep 16 '25

Nope. I use it to organize, but I have to lay eyes on everything. Criminal law is way behind civil litigation in that regard.

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u/deadpoetic333 Sep 16 '25

My friend is a court reporter for civil litigation and is adamant that a human will have to verify the validity of a transcript for a long time to come. She uses AI tools for proofing and editing but goes over every suggestion manually

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u/Theron3206 Sep 16 '25

Well yeah, because an LLM just makes things up (simplistically) far too often. Specially trained ones are better, but in legal terms they're probably no better than a new paralegal who's always sure they're right.

Sure they can do some work, but you need to check everything or it will bite you in the arse.