Grounds for Concern: Fair Use, Terms of Use and the Grist for AI
Much ink has been spilled about copyright and AI. Almost all of it pools in two places: the works used as model training data, and the works that models generate as potentially and allegedly infringing output [ref]David Tan, “The Best
Exorcising Automagic Legal AI
A Decision-making Framework for Legal AI Use Readers may be aware about the Reddit and Linkedin firestorm surrounding a particular legal AI company that has the same name as a TV character from the show Suits[ref]Phrased to avoid the implication that the
A/B Testing Prompt Engineering for Legal
The Difference Between Playing With AI and Mastering It Or Why Most Lawyers are Typing the Legal Equivalent of "Write Me a Good Contract" I've been watching lawyers and non-lawyers interact with AI about the law for the past few years,
Category Errors, Or Why AI is Eating Our Lunch
A fellow lawyer recently told me, “We tried AI for contract review, but it missed obvious issues, so AI is useless for legal work.” If you don't know what a category error is, it has a lot more to do with
Can You Make Decisions Without Data?
Why Lawyers Need to Know Basic Stats and UIUX in the Age of AI It has become common parlance to talk about making data-driven decisions. At most tech-related conferences, there will be one topic on making more data-driven decisions. It usually
The Data Deluge: Navigating the AI and Data Revolution as a Lawyer
The Onslaught of the AI Era - It's Not Coming, It's Here Welcome to the advent of AI, and to the data revolution – a mantra which we have seen some version of for many years now! Some of you may
On a Knife’s Edge: Generative AI and Using It in Legal Practice
There’s a new kid on the legal block: GPT, crafted by OpenAI. Since ChatGPT 3.5 first launched on 30 November 2022, the new kid has received quite the range of responses: confusion, elation, ambivalence, fore-telling of the end-times, and my