Generative AI In Legal Practice: Technical And Legal Aspects To Consider

By Dr. Ilia Kolochenko for LexisNexis Mealey’s® Litigation Report (Artificial Intelligence)
Thursday, October 12, 2023

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This year may deserve to be named the year of most important advancement in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its swift proliferation into our everyday lives. The explosive growth of generative AI technologies is not without its technical and legal drawbacks, many of which Gordon Platt and I predicted back in February 2023. While for many legal professionals the technical side of generative AI remains an indecipherable enigma, well-commoditized and ready-to-use AI products by Azure Cognitive Services and AWS AI Services enable even small companies and startups to streamline Machine Learning (ML) technologies for a wide spectrum of business tasks. In parallel, tech companies are jealously fighting for AI training data. Illustratively, X (formerly known as Twitter) has just updated its privacy policy to use public posts of its users for AI training purposes, after recently restricting thirdparty access to its APIs – likely to prevent competitors from doing exactly the same with user-generated content. The legality of AI training with personal, copyrighted or otherwise proprietary data remains a topic of heated debates amid the growing legal uncertainty.
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