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Thinking about how the problem would "elegantly solve itself" seems to illustrate the issue.

Someone using it in an actual courtroom would make a boneheadedly dumb argument or refer to a nonexistent precedent or something. Then maybe the judge gets upset and gives them the harshest punishment or contempt of court or they just lose the case. They may or may not ever get a chance to fix it.

A failure mode of jail time and/or massive fines for your customers doesn't sound all that elegant to me. This isn't a thing to show people cat pictures, I don't think move fast and break things is a good strategy.

Not to say that there aren't some entrenched possibly corrupt and self-serving interests here. But that doesn't mean they don't have a point.



It's probably better than the existing alternative. Which is roughly plead guilty because you don't have money to pay a lawyer. Or don't sue someone because you don't have money to pay a lawyer.


“Then maybe the judge gets upset and gives them the harshest punishment or contempt of court”

That sounds like a horrible judge, maybe this AI can be used to sniff them out and get rid of them.


Judges would be absolutely right to punish lawyers or defendants that are bullshitting the court. They are wasting time and resources that would otherwise go towards cases where people are actually representing themselves in good faith.


And yet that never seems to happen when another Hollywood couple shows up. How much time and money was wasted on Johnny Depp?




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