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it has been rewritten using a LLM to have broadly the same meaning but at the same time having all the lines at the same lenght.

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More concretely, Tom7 built a typesetting system (think TeX) that doesn’t only use the bounding boxes of words, or possible hyphenation to align justified text. His system allows for the text to be rewritten via an LLM if rewording would reduce excess spacing compared to the original.

This is a nice project, but terrible to use for legal text specifically.

Legal text uses its own jargon because the specific meaning of specific words in contracts has been exhaustively argued in court, so any lawyer knows exactly what they mean, and very lengthy court cases on this can be avoided.

For an example, this license lacks the word "irrevocable". This is not a small oversight, and makes using anything provided under this license legally dangerous even if you agree with everything else in it.

They need an LLLM?

How could it use 128GiB of RAM without an LLM?

I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting using this. It's a joke result from a joke project.

Somehow, actual lawyers have already gotten into trouble for using LLMs for court filings.

No reasonable person would use this, but it is not a good idea to assume your audience on the internet consists exclusively of reasonable persons. Sometimes it's a good idea to spell out the obvious.

> In this talk—and with this talk—I presented BoVeX, a new computer typesetting system that finally solves the AI alignment problem. It follows the tradition of Knuth's TeX, but with modern amenities such as requiring 128 gigabytes of RAM.

It cheats!

> IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN *WRING* WILL

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