[PoignardAzur]

Alright, let's run this metaphor into the ground. A lawyer's job is not to help you avoid getting caught.

ChatGPT says "I can't help you hide this, escape, destroy evidence, or avoid being caught", and a lawyer would say the exact same thing; a lawyer that doesn't would be disbarred.

What a lawyer will do is help you argue that you didn't murder your wife. A lawyer can give you advice on your defense strategy, tell you what to say, what to avoid mentioning, etc. They can't give you advice like "here's what you can do so the neighbors don't get suspicious about the new hole in your backyard".

[reinitctxoffset]

Fair enough. If Claude has the same obligations to me as my attorney and CPA and attending physician, owes me the same presumption of innocence that a cop with no warrant or antecedent probable cause does, et cetera?

I'll take that massive improvement to the status quo before I hold out for an absolutist position like "it should act like a revolver in my hand".

I'm pragmatic like that. Point is, current proprietary megalab leadership thinks that's on mars, no way they are interested in a negotiation where "zero net decrease in my civil rights" is on the table.

Which is why we need new leadership.