Comment by bigstrat2003
11 hours ago
I think it's likely to be lawyers who are the safest. Lawyers are the ones primarily in charge of the government, and I think it's likely that as soon as they feel like the legal profession is threatened, they will pass laws making it illegal to use AI for legal issues. It's not all sunshine and roses (paralegals are probably hosed), but the lawyers seem like they'll do ok.
If that was the logic then software engineers would stop using AI to "protect their jobs" but that hasn't been the case.
There will always be people that work against their own profession and colleagues for short term gains
I know of a few software engineers who have stopped using AI beyond using it selectively as a search / troubleshooting / stack overflow replacement.
If you are taking steps to protect your brain maybe in a way you are also protecting your job?
Who knows how this all turns out years from now.
I am one of those engineers. I just don't want to be dependent on it. I want to still do the work and learn how to be a better programmer
Unless the model watermarks text, it will become increasingly difficult to tell the difference between human legalese and AI legalese. Especially if they make it illegal, that will create a strong incentive to find-tune to imitate human lawyers more convincingly.
There's already been one case where the prompts were allowed to as a subject of discovery, and lying about it is perjury. Lawyers really are probably safe.
Pretty sure it’s too late. Lawyers are lazy like everyone else. They don’t want to go back either.
Eh, I think we're going to run into the same issues we're seeing in software. That is, junior and lower status positions (so SDETs in software, paralegals in law) are rapidly being downsized, and that's going to have a big issue in the future where there isn't the same talent funnel. And then in the future those that work their way up will basically be dependent on working with AI.
It is great time to start business as downsized paralegal. While ago there was an app that objected parking ticket fines in NYC. Anyone can find similar niche to specialise in, and just produce boring repetitive law work using LLM templates and mostly automated work.
> I think it's likely to be lawyers who are the safest. Lawyers are the ones primarily in charge of the government
Given what seems like an increasingly inevitable deprecation of these outdated, lumbering nation-states, it seems to me that these two assertions are mutually exclusive.