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Google’s Gemini API – Is my data safe and legally compliant?
You are thinking of using Google’s latest LLM Gemini API in your business, but you are concerned about legal compliance: is your data safe? The story can be summarized as: Let’s get the background out of the way first. Google announced that its latest AI LLM model Gemini is now available as an API on…
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Bring Your Own Data into OpenAI GPT Apps
What is Bring Your Own Data into OpenAI? Imagine you’re running a chatbot like ChatGPT. It can answer general questions, but you want to ask for details about something specific to you. Maybe you’re selling a product, if you can put the manual right at the top of ChatGPT’s reading list, that would be incredibly…
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AI word count limit – Why it sucks for legal
A major technical limitation for AI in the legal industry is word count. Large language models (like GPT) and products that are built on top just cannot process more than roughly 10 pages competently. It might sound great for most use cases, but that is a short contract or decision in the legal context. The…
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Microsoft Azure – Private, secure, enterprise ChatGPT?
ChatGPT made AI accessible to the masses, but what about an enterprise ChatGPT? Asides from skeptics, the other major hurdle to enterprise-wide adoption was OpenAI’s privacy policy. Microsoft has a solution. Almost immediately after ChatGPT’s release, tech-savvy folks began using it in organizations and in their jobs. It’s far from perfect, but if you want…
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OpenAI Opt-In Rules, New Practices for Data Privacy
ChatGPT and natural language processing AI’s are the talk of the workplace. You can generate emails, blog posts, even PowerPoint presentations. A major barrier to enterprise-use is OpenAI’s Terms of Use A major shift in their terms today (the OpenAI opt-in scheme) should remove the barriers for many businesses, leaving behind only the most stringent.…
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Microsoft Azure OpenAI – How to Apply
ChatGPT is the latest “game changer” in the artificial intelligence space. ChatGPT is extremely accessible because anyone can sign up for a free account at https://chat.openai.com/. With a free account, you can play around with a chatbot that can answer factual questions, draft emails, and more. We put a few AI tools to help draft…
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Scheduled Downtime
At 8:00PM PST today, reference.legal will undergo some scheduled downtime in order to update the backend. The anticipated interruption is minimal, likely to be well under 5 minutes while we make a quick switch. For those who are curious, reference.legal uses a server running Python 3.6, and we’re upgrading to 3.10. Sorry for any inconvenience!
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Privacy Policy Generator – Critiquing Shopify’s Approach
Shopify provides a free privacy policy generator at https://www.shopify.com/tools/policy-generator. It’s from a large and reputable company, so what can go wrong? Quite a lot. Let’s get to the basics first. A privacy policy is generally required when you handle personal information. “Handle” and “personal information” are loaded terms that are not defined the same universally,…
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Contract risk management – Can you contract for cheap?
The question I am often asked is whether a contract is even necessary. I can tow the line and give you the typical lawyer response; that they are necessary and you should always hire a lawyer to write it for you. But I’ll let you in on a secret: it’s all about contract risk management.…
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Why should we standardize legal documents?
In the past, I have written about the path to standardize documents, but I haven’t written about why that should be a goal in the legal industry. It’s obvious isn’t it? While I think the immediate effects of standardization, both positive and negative, are easily recognizable, it’s worth playing out the mental exercise of longer…