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"We are also expanding our work on privacy and governance to give law firms specific controls for confidential client work"

This is everything OpenAI have to say about privacy in this announcement. No guarantees. No promises. Just a pinky-swear promise.

Anyone trusting them–or a lawyer who relies on them–for legal work deserves what they get.

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the thing is a lot of the legal work which will go through this is drafting 100 and 1 variations of draft versions of standard contracts not containing any trade secrets where the contract can be drafted with "replacement/place holder names"

the kind of work mostly done by juniors not yet through their final exam and other "non" lawyers etc.

so it's a slippery slope of "lets just use it for <this> things where it doesn't matter" and then out of laziness and convenience it creeps into all the other places (at least for drafts).

Lawyers are already llm’ing their work and getting slapped around in court for making shit up.

There’s another case making headlines every week.

I get the feeling a lot of them won’t care about this stuff.

they could potentially lose their license, I think that's worth caring about.

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