What does AI actually do for us?

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Anonymous wrote:My job as an attorney is uniquely unsuitable for AI, so I really never use it at work.

I use it occasionally to provide high level overviews of non-work topics. One of my kids has recurrent ear infections, so recently I asked Claude to give me an idea of the likely options will we have before his ENT appointment in a few weeks.

I'm an attorney as well and there are things AI can help you with. What kind of law do you practice?

I will often get incorrect or incomplete answers if I ask specific questions, but if you go in expecting that and push back it can be useful.

One thing it's great at is document review, for example.

I’m a prosecutor. Most of my job is conducting grand jury investigations. Grand jury materials, which include basically anything we receive pursuant to a subpoena, cannot go into AI.

Wrong.

All your employer need do is to create a confidential AI system closed off to the outside.

They can easily make it secure, like our banking systems are.

I’m not wrong. It is my employer’s policy that grand jury materials cannot go into AI.

Tell me you don't understand AI without telling you don't understand AI.

Maybe you could explain it since some of us are obviously so mentally deficient?

Maybe you could Google it?

I don't think all of you are using the term AI correctly or understanding what it is. There are open-source AI options like Claude, where whatever you put into it can be used by Claude to further its education/understanding. Then there are closed-source AI options like Co-Pilot that your company can house internally that can further the education/understanding of your software, but isn't being used by Co-Pilot as a whole. We have a ChatGPT version called, for example, ChatApple, that is a close-sourced AI option for those of us who work at Apple (I do not, that's an example). I am allowed to input my client's information into ChatApple because it's not going anywhere off my system. I cannot input my client's information into ChatGPT because that would be a violation of multiple things.

If you don't think there are lawyers at firms and with the government who are using closed-source AI for client information, I don't know what to tell you. I understand how grand juries work, and I understand the secrecy behind them and the need to keep that information out of the public domain. But storing those documents on your hard drive is no different than running them through a proprietary closed-source AI system on your computer.

This would be similar to a hard drive if you were using closed deployment AI on a local device air gap- this is my understanding. But using a closed deployment AI on a system still introduces risk because the system can be hacked.

I assume the attorney who does grand jury isnt also allowed to have a VPC or shared file system. Is that correct? Only those working on that specific computer could access the materials.

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AI can be really helpful for productivity if you know how to use it correctly, and when NOT to use it. It’s the people that just use it for everything and trust what it says that producing poor work.

It’s been amazing to see the number of attorneys getting caught turning in briefs with made up AI references. Very concerning to say the least.

I watched this awesome podcast about company blunders when it comes to this, and how to avoid them. Highly recommend https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAAt5J51-c&ra=m

[Anonymous]

Mostly porn and crappy customer service I think.