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Absolutely atrocious stunt on the part of that company. A glorified chatbot is not itself legally accountable or trained lawyer and it cannot seriously represent anyone. I assume the entire purpose of this was to bait the obvious shutdown and then complain on the internet about the legacy lawyers or whatever to generate press. Reminds me of the 'sentient AI' Google guy.

Is this going to be the new grift in the industry?



I'm not familiar just how large cases it's supposed to tackle, but for small stuff like parking tickets a few solid legal arguments may be enough and you don't need to pay for tens of hours of lawyer's time.


> Is this going to be the new grift in the industry?

It already is a new grift. The same AI snake oil scam to be another VC exit scam to the next sucker. DoNotPay is just one of the many AI scams.




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