> I can imagine the same thing with laws. Preload a city's, county's etc. entire set of laws and for a sentencing, upload a defendant's criminal history report, plea, and other info then the DA/judge/whoever can ask questions to the AI legal advisor just like the doctor does with patient docs.
This has been tried already, and it hasn't worked out well so far for NYC [0]. RAG can helps avoid complete hallucinations but it can't eliminate them altogether, and as others have noted the failure mode for LLMs when they're wrong is that they're confidently wrong. You can't distinguish between confident-and-accurate bot legal advice and confident-but-wrong bot legal advice, so a savvy user would just avoid the bot legal advice at all.
This has been tried already, and it hasn't worked out well so far for NYC [0]. RAG can helps avoid complete hallucinations but it can't eliminate them altogether, and as others have noted the failure mode for LLMs when they're wrong is that they're confidently wrong. You can't distinguish between confident-and-accurate bot legal advice and confident-but-wrong bot legal advice, so a savvy user would just avoid the bot legal advice at all.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-i...