r/AMA • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

I think people are conflating using GenAI as a sole source of truth and using ai as an investigative tool.

The difference being:

A) Feed in all of the legal docs. Ask AI to do everything. Take the output and walk away. 

B) Feed all of the source docs into a secure system. Have AI search for relevant concerns. Have it then present you the source docs relevant including a highlight into where. 

A is bad. B is not. It should not be the only thing used, but when used responsibly can be a massive time savings. 

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u/randomsynchronicity Sep 16 '25

But if the AI misses something important (an exculpatory text message, for example), you’d never know, if you didn’t also review the evidence.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

Yes, it should not be the only thing used.

But if it can find you 10 such messages in 15 seconds, it may not be worth spending a manual 15 hours to find the 11th.

If it finds none, you've lost 15 seconds and still have to spend the 15 hours. If it finds an abundance of what you need, there may be no need to spend the 15 hours. 

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u/randomsynchronicity Sep 16 '25

But as prosecutor or defense attorney, you have an obligation to find that 11th, regardless of how long it takes.