Oh, wait. Now I’m beginning to wonder about my lawyer, Robert Droids, Esq.
Posted on 03/12/2023 10:20:48 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A SAN FRANCISCO-BASED company that fights parking tickets by using artificial intelligence and automated processes has been sued for the unauthorized practice of law.
In a lawsuit filed against DoNotPay Inc. in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday, Jonathan Faridian of Yolo County seeks damages for alleged violations of California’s unfair competition law, alleging that he would not have subscribed if he knew that the “World’s First Robot Lawyer,” as the company calls itself, was not actually a lawyer.
The book “System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot,” written by three Stanford professors, begins with a description of Browder.
“Joshua Browder,” it says, “entered Stanford as a young, brilliant undergraduate in 2015. His Wikipedia page describes him as a “British-American entrepreneur and he’s already been named to Forbes magazine’s ‘30 Under 30’ list.”
The book reports that in the first three months of his freshman year, Browder programed a chatbot to help people challenge parking tickets, and by 2016 he was CEO of DoNotPay and bragging that the company successfully challenged 160,000 tickets, saving clients $4 million.
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“...bragging that the company successfully challenged 160,000 tickets, saving clients $4 million.”
They are bragging that they saved each client $25.00?
The “Bar Association” is a union that vociferously defends their turf.
The Judges are part of it. Anyone who shows up in a courtroom with out one of the unionistas is raked over the coals to show who’s boss.
It’s a scam designed to relieve the plebes of their cash. Along with the petty rules put in place to make them liable.
AI can cover most of the bases, not all. Once looked at DoNotPay’s website, it’s just basics of going after traffic tickets. The programming for it is trivial. But it is cheap, and probably more thorough then a lot of half assed lawyers working at the lower end in traffic cases.
But the Bar can’t tolerate any automation that would threaten the Good Times. After all, we’re just their cattle, right?
[[he would not have subscribed if he knew that the “World’s First Robot Lawyer,” ... was not actually a lawyer.]]
Yeah that doesn’t sound in the last bit suspicious- no need to check credentials- /s
Caveat emptor
A robot lawyer would have been much better than the idiot we hired to handle my Dad’s property when he went into a nursing home.
Well, I am sure the robot could pass the Bar exam…
Wrong. I assume you’ve never had to tell a client that she’s not inheriting her deceased husband’s estate because he insisted on using LegalZoom or another online document prep app instead of consulting somebody who actually knows the rules on how to draft and execute a will. It may not be rocket surgery but it DOES have to be done right.
Note that I said AI can cover most of the bases, but not all. And realistically that’s only for relatively simple things...like traffic tickets. For now.
But you’ll pardon me as much of the opinion came from my father who was a government attorney with a rather jaded outlook. He got into it with the Bar back in the ‘60s since he was doing divorces for $50 which they disapproved of. For the majority of people - especially without complex asset allocation to worry about - the actual work was quite straight forward.
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