AXIOS (Emily Peck) - People are using AI for legal advice and it's driving lawyers bananas
AI promises to make work more productive for lawyers, but there's a problem: Their clients are using it, too. Why it matters: The rise of AI is creating new headaches for attorneys: They're worried about the fate of the billable hour, a reliable profit center for aeons, and are perturbed by clients getting bad legal advice from chatbots. Zoom in: "It's like the WebMD effect on steroids," says Dave Jochnowitz, a partner at the law firm Outten & Golden, referring to how medical websites can give people a misguided understanding of their condition. - "ChatGPT is telling them 'you got a killer case, ' " Jochnowitz says. - But the models don't understand the full context, the actual laws that apply or the full history of certain types of…
AI promises to make work more productive for lawyers, but there's a problem: Their clients are using it, too. Why it matters: The rise of AI is creating new headaches for attorneys: They're worried about the fate of the billable hour, a reliable profit center for aeons, and are perturbed by clients getting bad legal advice from chatbots. Zoom in: "It's like the WebMD effect on steroids," says Dave Jochnowitz, a partner at the law firm Outten & Golden, referring to how medical websites can give people a misguided understanding of their condition. - "ChatGPT is telling them 'you got a killer case, ' " Jochnowitz says. - But the models don't understand the full context, the actual laws that apply or the full history of certain types of…Open