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by nhod 284 days ago
Or run your legal questions through a frontier model and then have a lawyer verify the answers. You can save a lot of money and time.

Yes, all LLM caveats apply. Due your diligence. But they are quite good at this now.

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Have you actually tried this approach? I’m curious as to the result, especially when you took it to your lawyer. Not a contract review but a business practice risk evaluation.
Some context from coverage of GPT 5:

https://legaltechnology.com/2025/08/08/openai-launches-gpt-5...

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/08/08/gpt-5-tops-harve...

Remember when "asking for a friend" was a thing?

Today's expression is "I asked a friend". You can try that when talking to your lawyer about your latest ChatGPT — they might still believe you.

Hmm this is a good idea too