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by treetalker 929 days ago
This service likely violates rules against the unauthorized practice of law in many (most?) jurisdictions in the United States.
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It uses the common for new and short-lived services (but, IIRC, not generally effective -- but don't trust me, see an actual lawyer) technique of using marketing language selling it in terms which describe legal advice, but then including a small print disclaimer at the bottom of the extremely long page saying that the analysis provided should not be treated as legal advice.
> businesses can now accelerate their contract review processes without sacrificing accuracy

Later:

> The contract analysis provided is generated by artificial intelligence systems and is not guaranteed to be correct

GPT-4 is not a person. Only persons can be held liable. Problem solved.
Then again if the guild who entrenched this law starves for some years the law might go away..