Tracking Key Shifts in the Legal Ecosystem

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The Shift: ChatGPT Faces a Timeout as Legal Turns Its Attention to More Mature, Legal-Specific AI Tools

Six months ago, ChatGPT was brand new, and, for many, held the future of legal work in its almost-human-like hands.

Thanks, in part, to an ill-planned and ultimately abandoned stunt to have the popular chatbot represent actual litigants in court, discussions around ChatGPT's place in the legal industry accelerated at warp speed. It wasn't long before some in the industry started pointing to serious privacy, confidentiality and ethics concerns with the public tool and the spate of similar chatbots that followed it.