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by jl6 498 days ago
$3.4K is about what you might pay a magic circle lawyer for an opinion on a matter. Not saying o3 is an efficient use of resources, just saying that it’s not outlandish that a sufficiently good AI could be worth that kind of money.
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You pay that price to a law firm to get good service and to get a "guarantee" of correctness. You get neither from an LLM. Not saying it is not worth anything but you cant compare it to a top law firm.
You absolutely do not get a "guarantee" of correctness (event with the airquotes) from any lawyer.
You can sue a lawyer giving certain kinds of bad advice and occasionally win . That is what the guarantee is about
You can probably sue Open AI for getting bad legal advice from ChatGPT too.
Sure, but can you also win the case ;)?

On the bottom of ChatGPT.com I see a disclaimer: “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info”.

I don’t think you can succesfully sue with such caveat emptor.

What’s the liability insurance of the AI like
Refer to IBM’s 1979 slide for details on that