Re:AI Destroys Institutions
by terminalshort on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:21AM
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The people who stand to benefit are you. If I have to pay a lawyer $1000 to review a contract, or spend $10 in tokens, I win. OpenAI may make $9 off of those tokens, or they may make $1. But that doesn't matter at all to me. I care about the $1000 vs $10, not the $9 vs $1.
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$10 until the contract is voided in court because you didn't know the law.
Does the quality of the work matter at all to you?
Re:AI Destroys Institutions
by terminalshort on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:18PM
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It certainly does, but that's not guaranteed with humans either. Nor is it the only factor that matters. It's a cost benefit tradeoff. If I am on trial for a crime, obviously I will pay for the quality. If I want to know what some language in a simple contract means, I will ask a LLM.