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Kirkland says it's spending $500 MILLION to build its own in-house AI

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already? http...
Exhilarant Associate
  05/28/26
seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked
Drunken orchestra pit
  05/28/26
Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison
Exhilarant Associate
  05/28/26
Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on inf...
hairraiser school
  05/28/26
Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head
Exhilarant Associate
  05/28/26
LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like ...
Histrionic burgundy pit french chef
  05/29/26
...
sepia state
  05/29/26
au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brian...
irradiated scarlet abode
  05/29/26
Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation water...
Histrionic burgundy pit french chef
  05/29/26
#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Mond...
irradiated scarlet abode
  05/29/26
but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months ...
Charcoal lodge mother
  05/29/26
...
irradiated scarlet abode
  05/29/26
...
Impressive know-it-all senate telephone
  05/29/26
...
Splenetic Talking Prole Principal's Office
  05/29/26
but dbg assured me he would be safe
wonderful emerald keepsake machete
  05/28/26
Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoardin...
Exhilarant Associate
  05/28/26
this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best ...
Deranged legend
  05/28/26
they probably tried claude code and think they can do anythi...
Drunken orchestra pit
  05/28/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
Exhilarant Associate
  05/28/26
Fucking 180 Claude, run a 50 State search for "summa...
Shaky cream box office
  05/29/26
...
Deranged legend
  05/29/26
It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll ma...
at-the-ready university
  05/29/26
just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog
Shivering gas station fortuitous meteor
  05/28/26
Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried s...
Aquamarine stead
  05/29/26
probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipu...
aphrodisiac heaven
  05/29/26
They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash ...
Canary out-of-control field
  05/29/26
which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate...
aphrodisiac heaven
  05/29/26
It would if their problem is making more $
Canary out-of-control field
  05/29/26
Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol
magical address
  05/29/26
That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more over...
Canary out-of-control field
  05/29/26
Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkla...
stimulating embarrassed to the bone mexican
  05/29/26
an AI that is, on balance, in balance
irradiated scarlet abode
  05/29/26
...
aphrodisiac heaven
  05/29/26
100%
razzle dun love of her life
  05/29/26
This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do a...
Disgusting Titillating Station Private Investor
  05/30/26
For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users usi...
Exhilarant Associate
  05/30/26
I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI
Disturbing scourge upon the earth
  05/29/26
so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to inves...
Charcoal lodge mother
  05/29/26
even scarier stuff for service partners rofl
irradiated scarlet abode
  05/29/26
yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the servi...
Charcoal lodge mother
  05/29/26
I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who surviv...
motley yellow church genital piercing
  05/29/26
This is Huge.
Salmon charismatic cruise ship marketing idea
  05/29/26
*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirklan...
Stirring doobsian kitchen
  05/29/26
JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just ...
Fishy Mood Pocket Flask
  05/29/26
that's all these announcements ever are and people keep fall...
Well-lubricated laughsome trump supporter hell
  05/29/26
Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit be...
Salmon charismatic cruise ship marketing idea
  05/29/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
Exhilarant Associate
  05/29/26
nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship
dashing philosopher-king
  05/29/26
Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkla...
henna slap-happy faggotry step-uncle's house
  05/29/26
Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we th...
Aquamarine stead
  05/30/26
This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more ...
Pea-brained church building partner
  05/29/26
They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on th...
Disgusting Titillating Station Private Investor
  05/30/26
I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in bigl...
razzle dun love of her life
  05/29/26
No litigator AIs, please
Thriller Godawful Dragon Regret
  05/29/26
why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you tel...
Cracking walnut library
  05/29/26
Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for ...
Aquamarine stead
  05/30/26
ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on C...
Disgusting Titillating Station Private Investor
  05/30/26
Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its...
Exhilarant Associate
  05/30/26


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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/law-firm-kirkland-spend-500-million-developing-its-own-ai-platform-2026-05-28/

Just a chill $625k per lawyer going to Jensen Huang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905873)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:33 PM
Author: Drunken orchestra pit

seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905901)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905907)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: hairraiser school

Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on information from 250 Kirkland lawyers ​and would involve more than 180 technology professionals inside and outside the firm.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905906)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905910)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: Histrionic burgundy pit french chef

LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like 4,000 other attorneys whose brains aren’t worthy of being digitized. What a fucking indictment, holy shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906516)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: sepia state



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906522)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:48 AM
Author: irradiated scarlet abode

au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brians digitized. the service partners whose brains have now been digitized are now on the chopping block.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906546)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:47 PM
Author: Histrionic burgundy pit french chef

Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation waterfall, and tax McKirkland “partners” who have each spent a 60K hours over the last 20 years grinding out the same repetitive 5.7/9.8 drafting and negotiation tasks who are getting digitized. And they’re terminally non-equity, so they’re not sharing in any of the upside of this shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906623)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:53 PM
Author: irradiated scarlet abode

#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Monday at 9am so we can digitize your brain and fire you. Thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906635)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: Charcoal lodge mother

but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months to record everything they do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906658)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: irradiated scarlet abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906663)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: Impressive know-it-all senate telephone



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906654)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Splenetic Talking Prole Principal's Office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906829)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:26 PM
Author: wonderful emerald keepsake machete

but dbg assured me he would be safe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906019)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoarding $500 million all this time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906021)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:47 PM
Author: Deranged legend

this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best general purpose AI model, will also make the best AI model for the law. it's not like kirkland will manage to make anything better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906055)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:51 PM
Author: Drunken orchestra pit

they probably tried claude code and think they can do anything now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906060)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:52 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906064)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:03 PM
Author: Shaky cream box office

Fucking 180

Claude, run a 50 State search for "summary judgment standard" thank

Now do the same task 800 times per week thank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906570)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:09 PM
Author: Deranged legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906673)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:35 PM
Author: at-the-ready university

It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll market it as "The Kirkland Difference"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906605)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:59 PM
Author: Shivering gas station fortuitous meteor

just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906074)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:31 AM
Author: Aquamarine stead

Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried some ai bullshit and it’s not as good as chat cpt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906529)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM
Author: aphrodisiac heaven

probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipulating:

-- "we want our own airgapped model specifically tuned and trained in the following ways"

-- "you won't have any ongoing compute cost for this because it'll be on our own hardware -- fire and forget revenue infusion for you"

-- "this isn't creating opportunity cost for you because we can't use your API model anyway due to client restrictions (e.g. IP litigation tech clients won't let any material be run through frontier LLMs)"

probably worth a pitch because AI niggers need MONEY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906543)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Canary out-of-control field

They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash based on its current market cap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906593)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: aphrodisiac heaven

which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate that they could at least get a meeting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906619)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: Canary out-of-control field

It would if their problem is making more $

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907213)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: magical address

Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906555)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:16 PM
Author: Canary out-of-control field

That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more overcooked than any SAAS provider in any industry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906583)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: stimulating embarrassed to the bone mexican

Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkland-specific wrapper on a third-party platform. They want to have more customization and in-house control over shit. They'll have it trained on more in-house work product. They'll be able to integrate with ediscovery vendors and the like. They'll solve some of the confidentiality concerns. It's not "inventing AI" or some dumb shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906601)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: irradiated scarlet abode

an AI that is, on balance, in balance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906618)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:46 PM
Author: aphrodisiac heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906621)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: razzle dun love of her life

100%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907043)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:51 PM
Author: Disgusting Titillating Station Private Investor

This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do all of this with a Harvey AI sub at a small fraction of the price. They could also create some customization for Claude and spend even less. The only way to spend $500 million on this is pure incompetence or theft.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907810)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users using open weight models, with full time support staff, would be maybe $10mm yr tops. They could do it for $5 million/yr I bet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907840)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:36 PM
Author: Disturbing scourge upon the earth

I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906607)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: Charcoal lodge mother

so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to invest in this. they must have ran the numbers and decided the potential associate savings were worth it. pretty scary stuff for young lawyers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906627)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:55 PM
Author: irradiated scarlet abode

even scarier stuff for service partners rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906641)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:56 PM
Author: Charcoal lodge mother

yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the service partners will be docked down to associate pay levels and the equity partners will fucking ball out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906643)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: motley yellow church genital piercing

I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who survive this will ball out even more than they already are balling out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906805)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:01 PM
Author: Salmon charismatic cruise ship marketing idea

This is Huge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906653)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: Stirring doobsian kitchen

*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirkland brand Extra Virgin Olive Oil depending upon predicted customer behaviors*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906662)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: Fishy Mood Pocket Flask

JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just advertising to dumbfuck GCs. They might as well have said $1 BILLION to be doubly impressive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906819)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: Well-lubricated laughsome trump supporter hell

that's all these announcements ever are and people keep falling for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906832)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:47 PM
Author: Salmon charismatic cruise ship marketing idea

Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907032)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:34 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907018)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: dashing philosopher-king

nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906822)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: henna slap-happy faggotry step-uncle's house

Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkland's AI law slop dispenser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906841)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:56 PM
Author: Aquamarine stead

Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we thought of was Costco.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907711)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 4:00 PM
Author: Pea-brained church building partner

This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more than that on tokens and AI licenses anyway given the nature of their business. Not really news IMO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906858)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Disgusting Titillating Station Private Investor

They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on this if they just went with an existing solution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907815)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: razzle dun love of her life

I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in biglaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907039)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:49 PM
Author: Thriller Godawful Dragon Regret

No litigator AIs, please

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907209)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 10:01 PM
Author: Cracking walnut library

why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you telling me a team of 10 or so capable software engineers couldn’t build whatever Kirkland wants it to do for that much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907238)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:57 PM
Author: Aquamarine stead

Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for everyone and tell them to use chat GPT.

Also I’m guessing we’re gonna start having shit like Kirkland Costco (powered by ChatGPT) very soon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907714)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:52 PM
Author: Disgusting Titillating Station Private Investor

ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on Claude) or Gemini are all fine. You can get enterprise subs with terms that will care for confidentiality concerns.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907812)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: Exhilarant Associate

Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its infancy and no one has actually cured the hallucination problem, or the randomly-speaking-chinese problem, or the "it doesn't understand human psychology" problem. All of these platforms are still dogshit right now. They can't even OCR well. There are SAAS companies advertising cloud OCR platforms to law firms, and they brag that they do NOT use AI.

There's also no benefit to training an AI on client data vs transforming client data into vector databases. In fact it it's worse, because every time there's a new development you have to retrain the model, rather than just updating some vector database of client files. And vector databases cost nothing to deploy and maintain. This really looks like fake news to me and I don't understand why Kirkland announced this to Thomson Reuters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907842)