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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the queue-the-lawyer-jokes-in-3-2-1 dept.

A chatbot-"ai"-lawyer keeps filing appeals against parking tickets and similar minor offenses. The author claims it has defeated an estimated 375,000 parking tickets by now -- defeated or appealed? Is every appeal a sure win with this bot-created-paperwork? Do people even contact lawyers to fight parking tickets? Isn't the lawyer fee almost always going to be higher than the fine? Sure, it might be about the good fight and standing up for what is right, etc. but still.

After reading the story I'm still unsure what the actual AI part of the chatbot is, it seems to just be one big decision-tree. But I guess that doesn't get as much press as claiming you have invented a lawyer-AI.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15960080/chatbot-ai-legal-donotpay-us-uk


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:18PM (#538723)

    Regarding the jokes, there was a canonical list of lawyer jokes back in the 90s. Search for it.