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Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by samstave on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:06PM (#35184882)
If they want to make Unicorn status ; make this for legal.

And even better - make it so individuals can use it for legal documents.

Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by jasonwcfan on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:29PM (#35185178)
Yeah we're thinking any type of product in a technically complex field could benefit. Legal, compliance, software, etc. For these types of products companies need highly trained employees with specific expertise to provide support and to create content, which makes it extremely expensive to scale.
Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by samstave on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:55PM (#35189319)
Good... afternoon Mr.... Anderson.... I am here with my ... ... AIssistants... We are here to help you, when you have no mouth to speak.

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Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by jojosbuddy on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:49PM (#35185497)
Makes a lot of sense. But beware you're up against attorneys: no one wants putting their sensitive info in a common report for example. Paper files in a vault is "tangible".

I tried to do this decades ago in hollywood (top media company) using DAM/AssetMgt tech and ran up against the entire attorney corp being protective of their deal notes/documents both for confidentiality with the talent and to monopolize their connection to that talent (only they can negotiate) aka gatekeepers. They purposely wanted "islands" of data. Likely similar for any legal outfit in a global 2000.

Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by samstave on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:57PM (#35189346)
>>"But beware you're up against attorneys"

THIS IS THE FUCKING REASON

Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by clbrmbr on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:10PM (#35190818)
Idk, my attorney friends are pretty darn excited about ChatGPT. The killer app would be LLM + case law database to be able to generate accurate citations in briefs, locate and reason about related cases, etc.
Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by samtp on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:05PM (#35185785)
Then you can end up like Donotpay and be in trouble for giving legal advice by a chatbot that is not a lawyer and has no obligation or directive to be correct.
Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by astn-austin on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:01PM (#35188560)
What if the AI can pass the bar, such as GPT-4. When can we allow AI's to be legal experts?
Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by barking_biscuit on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:27PM (#35189732)
When they get off the drugs and stop hallucinating.
Re:Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers by samstave on Saturday March 18, 2023 @03:04PM (#35212082)
So.... when they stop being ACTuAL lawyers