[NoboruWataya]

I don't think they will ever stop screwing around in this field because lawyers are expensive, which means the potential gains from switching to AI are high. However, people seem to think the AI companies will be offering legal advice directly, as competitors to lawyers. I can't see them ever doing that, it would be too much of a liability minefield. Instead they want to offer these AI services to law firms, who will then use them in the provision of their own legal services. For better or worse, this is happening, and pretty much all of the bigger corporate law firms are now using AI in some way or another (and clients are demanding it). We will certainly continue to see issues caused by the use of AI in law, but that will be on the lawyers.

[ethin]

Sure, but the record already shows how well that goes. These companies have marketed their products so badly (or well, depending on your viewpoint) that lawyers think that these tools are glorified search engines. Then they get busted in court because the LLM made up citations, quotations etc. I honestly struggle to see how that outlook will change unless Anthropic actually starts being a lot more honest in their marketing campaigns.