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0 pointssandworm1011y ago0 comments

>> Same with lawyers, although the stakes are lower with lawyers.

Doctors and lawyer appear to be using LLMs in fundamentally different ways. Doctors appear to use them as consultants. The LLM spits out an opinion and the Doctor decides whether to go with it or not. Doctors are still writing the drug prescriptions. Lawyers seem to be submitting LLM-generated text to courts without even editing it, which is like the Doctor handing the prescription pad to the robot.

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elicksaur1y ago

That’s just the highly publicized failures of lawyers. There’s likely lawyers also using them discerningly and doctors using them unscrupulously, but just not as publicized.

If a doctor wrote the exact prescription an LLM outputs, how would anyone other than the LLM provider know?

Der_Einzige1y ago

It was garbage lawyers doing that. Straight up a cooley law graduate (worst law school in america - the same one Micheal Cohen attended)

The good lawyers are using LLMs without being detected because they didn't submit it verbatim without verification.

parpfish1y ago

I’m less concerned about how trained professionals use LLMs than I am about untrained folks using them to be a DIY doctor/lawyer.

Luckily doctoring has the safeguard that you will need a professional to get drugs/treatments, but there isn't as much of a safety net for lawyering

sandworm101OP1y ago

>> safety net for lawyering

There are some nets, but they aren't as official. The lawyer version of a Doctor's prescription pad is the ability to send threatening letters on law firm letterhead. Lawyers are also afforded privilege's in jails and prisons, things like non-monitored phone calls, that aren't made available to non-lawyers.

parpfish1y ago

but there's no safety net for things that are outside the justice system (e.g., "is this a fair contract?") or things the aren't in the justice system yet (e.g., "am i allowed to cut down my neighbor's tree if it blocks my view?")

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0 pointssandworm1011y ago0 comments

>> Same with lawyers, although the stakes are lower with lawyers.

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elicksaur1y ago

That’s just the highly publicized failures of lawyers. There’s likely lawyers also using them discerningly and doctors using them unscrupulously, but just not as publicized.

If a doctor wrote the exact prescription an LLM outputs, how would anyone other than the LLM provider know?

Der_Einzige1y ago

It was garbage lawyers doing that. Straight up a cooley law graduate (worst law school in america - the same one Micheal Cohen attended)

The good lawyers are using LLMs without being detected because they didn't submit it verbatim without verification.

parpfish1y ago

I’m less concerned about how trained professionals use LLMs than I am about untrained folks using them to be a DIY doctor/lawyer.

Luckily doctoring has the safeguard that you will need a professional to get drugs/treatments, but there isn't as much of a safety net for lawyering

sandworm101OP1y ago

>> safety net for lawyering

parpfish1y ago

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