Post #3959314
2026-07-20 10:23 UTC
I am trying to write a page for our website, for when people ask me to review third party (including AI) generated legal documents, and it is not much fun.
Expectations are, so often, misaligned.
The fact that it was cheap, fast, and easy to generate these documents sometimes leads to a misconception that it will be cheap, fast, and easy to have them reviewed and "signed off.
In fact, it is often *more expensive* for me to review third party generated documents than to deal with the matter from the beginning.
*sigh*
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@Noneeeed@hachyderm.io 2026-07-20 11:44
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk The idea that reviewing something is quick and easy compared to producing it seems to be very common. I have a friend who is a translator and the industry is being plagued by auto-generated translations that they are then expected to review, which can often take almost as long as it would have taken to write in the first place. AI has supercharged the degree to which many people assume other people's jobs (that they have never done) must be easier than they really are.