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This is a complete disaster.

On the other hand, are there any companies focusing on tuning llm or plugins to help with legal research and verification of research? Is that even possible?

The scale and size of the law really does necessitate that these tools exist. Especially since citizens are expected to know the law.

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With RAG it should be possible and with strong business logic outside the LLM it should be safe. A company called Pacer Pro is active in the space.

It should also be reasonably easy to identify hallucinatory / fabricated material. If we give those tools to law schools and judges the hammer comes down pretty quick on anyone who tries it again.

What is RAG?

Retrieval-augmented generation: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/retrieval-augmented-generatio...

Not an expert on the space but LexisNexis for example is using Anthropic's Claude 2 and GPT-4.

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