Increasingly convinced that #LLMs (e.g., #GPT), increase user (e.g., #lawyer) creativity. This upward trend will continue.
Insights from this good WIRED article:
- Much of #law (e.g., briefs, pleadings, motions, memos, contracts, advice, ideation) = boilerplate. Standard Language.
- LLMs = stochastic = boilerplate faster. Throat clearing.
- Good Lawyering = creativity (atop boilerplate)
- LLMs ⬆lawyerly #creativity.
@AgileAttorney , yes, I also hate rage-editing. But perhaps that could be remedied by incorporating "personal house style" prompting?
Like outlined in this article?
https://ai.plainenglish.io/3-simple-tricks-will-make-chatgpt-write-in-your-style-every-time-d761e53cbfa4?gi=1ad90cd8b190
@AgileAttorney Yes, I think about your Thing 1 a lot. Writing is thinking. How are we teaching our children to write/think? In an LLM world, is that critical thinking threatened?
Thing 2: Lack of training material for niche/deep expertise. This one is cause for celebration: You're the only one who can write about it: Scarcity + ____ = Profit! 🙂
@damienriehl @AgileAttorney I've been thinking a lot about this too. So much so I actually built a tool to help leverage LLMs to do exactly this (i.e., help structure thinking an draw out ideas from an author). See
The site is a sandbox for Generative Outlines — representations of a document’s structure and content designed to mediate a dialogue between a would-be author and an LLM. Generative outlines aim to maximize authorship and accuracy.
Are you a Zotero user? Do you ever wish you could search your libraries by idea not keywords? What about the ability to ask questions of your texts? Then this page is for you. Download information from one of your group libraries and interact with it using a number of NLP tools.
Damien Riehl
John E. Grant
David Colarusso