alt Hacker NewsA legal professional can be personally liable for not finding the most recent case-law.
The knowledge cut off gap means the models sometimes don't know about the most recent case-law, in a given situation.
I've seent his happen multiple times now. Accountants and legal professionals advising clients based on outdated information assembled through chat-gtp, claude and copilot.
Professionals drafting letters and missing recent case-law which handles their exact case. It's unreliable.So it can save you some work; but it can't save you all of the work. And in some cases its mistakes really force you to redo all the work, and more, to be thorough and have confidence in the result.
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You definitely want your AI to search legal databases, and not draw from "memory". This is where AI offerings from Thomson or Lexis could shine, especially in jurisdictions where case law is not freely available online.
"The knowledge cut off gap means the models sometimes don't know about the most recent case-law, in a given situation."
But they can perform live websearches or go directly to a DB specified.