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by franga2000 929 days ago
Props for the idea of giving it a BDSM contract, it's a great edgee, but from what you wrote, the tool answered exactly as advertised. It cut through the legal language and highlighted the unusually one-sided terms, as it says on the front page. The use-case I imagined from the marketing was finding sneaky terms that lawyers tried to hide in long and strangely-worded sentences or simply summarising the key points in an exhaustingly long contract that you just need tp quickly judge but don't really have negotiating power over (various EULAs and NDAs come to mind).

Analysing the enforcability or legality of the terms themselves is a task that needs to be fine-tuned to specific jurisdictions and circumstances. This would basically be an "AI lawyer", which is a completely different product and many people are already working on that.

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I thought that summary was fairly useful. In case one missed the glaringly obvious it’d be good to know that:

> Complete Submission Without Boundaries > The contract says you have to obey the master in all ways without any boundaries. This could be a problem because it doesn't consider your personal limits, except in very specific cases.

Makes it pretty clear and even hints at why it’d be bad.

I’d think of this as a sort of code linter. It’s not guaranteed to be correct or even useful, but could help bring to your attention something you may have missed.

For example it could help folks with less resources to learn that an employment contract with a non-compete and no compensation may not be beneficial or enforceable.