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Kirkland says it's spending $500 MILLION to build its own in-house AI

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already? http...
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/28/26
seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked
Crystalline abode hominid
  05/28/26
Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/28/26
Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on inf...
Boyish sienna hairy legs senate
  05/28/26
Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/28/26
LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like ...
Curious federal gas station
  05/29/26
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Provocative queen of the night property
  05/29/26
au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brian...
mind-boggling station
  05/29/26
Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation water...
Curious federal gas station
  05/29/26
#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Mond...
mind-boggling station
  05/29/26
but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months ...
Tan market
  05/29/26
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mind-boggling station
  05/29/26
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Nighttime Pink Gay Wizard Business Firm
  05/29/26
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Mildly autistic violent parlor
  05/29/26
but dbg assured me he would be safe
useless fear-inspiring rigor
  05/28/26
Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoardin...
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/28/26
this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best ...
impressive preventive strike private investor
  05/28/26
they probably tried claude code and think they can do anythi...
Crystalline abode hominid
  05/28/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/28/26
Fucking 180 Claude, run a 50 State search for "summa...
jet gaping orchestra pit
  05/29/26
...
impressive preventive strike private investor
  05/29/26
It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll ma...
Dead weed whacker
  05/29/26
just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog
costumed walnut new version
  05/28/26
Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried s...
Ultramarine talented nursing home
  05/29/26
probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipu...
wonderful cuckold milk
  05/29/26
They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash ...
fighting khaki temple
  05/29/26
which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate...
wonderful cuckold milk
  05/29/26
It would if their problem is making more $
fighting khaki temple
  05/29/26
Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol
bright locus
  05/29/26
That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more over...
fighting khaki temple
  05/29/26
Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkla...
Passionate skinny woman toilet seat
  05/29/26
an AI that is, on balance, in balance
mind-boggling station
  05/29/26
...
wonderful cuckold milk
  05/29/26
100%
umber azn
  05/29/26
This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do a...
Flirting carnelian lodge liquid oxygen
  05/30/26
For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users usi...
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/30/26
I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI
rambunctious heaven
  05/29/26
so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to inves...
Tan market
  05/29/26
even scarier stuff for service partners rofl
mind-boggling station
  05/29/26
yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the servi...
Tan market
  05/29/26
I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who surviv...
marvelous fiercely-loyal library
  05/29/26
This is Huge.
hairraiser hospital elastic band
  05/29/26
*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirklan...
up-to-no-good gay chapel
  05/29/26
JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just ...
Razzle mischievous trump supporter indirect expression
  05/29/26
that's all these announcements ever are and people keep fall...
Misunderstood parlour
  05/29/26
Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit be...
hairraiser hospital elastic band
  05/29/26
https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/29/26
nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship
burgundy dashing son of senegal meetinghouse
  05/29/26
Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkla...
Cocky goal in life home
  05/29/26
Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we th...
Ultramarine talented nursing home
  05/30/26
This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more ...
floppy cerise range
  05/29/26
They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on th...
Flirting carnelian lodge liquid oxygen
  05/30/26
I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in bigl...
umber azn
  05/29/26
No litigator AIs, please
aromatic dun kitty
  05/29/26
why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you tel...
Maize Doobsian Headpube
  05/29/26
Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for ...
Ultramarine talented nursing home
  05/30/26
ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on C...
Flirting carnelian lodge liquid oxygen
  05/30/26
Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its...
poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness
  05/30/26


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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

How the fuck is there not a thread on this already?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/law-firm-kirkland-spend-500-million-developing-its-own-ai-platform-2026-05-28/

Just a chill $625k per lawyer going to Jensen Huang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905873)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:33 PM
Author: Crystalline abode hominid

seems like a good indicator this profession is fucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905901)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

Uhh, it shows lawyers are more cash rich than Larry Ellison

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905907)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: Boyish sienna hairy legs senate

Kirkland ​said its platform would be designed based on information from 250 Kirkland lawyers ​and would involve more than 180 technology professionals inside and outside the firm.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905906)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

Divide 500,000,000 by those numbers in your head

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49905910)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: Curious federal gas station

LMFAO. How does it feel to be one of Kirkland’s like 4,000 other attorneys whose brains aren’t worthy of being digitized. What a fucking indictment, holy shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906516)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: Provocative queen of the night property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906522)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:48 AM
Author: mind-boggling station

au contraire. rainmaker share partners dont need their brians digitized. the service partners whose brains have now been digitized are now on the chopping block.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906546)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:47 PM
Author: Curious federal gas station

Pity the derivatives, credit agreement, fund formation waterfall, and tax McKirkland “partners” who have each spent a 60K hours over the last 20 years grinding out the same repetitive 5.7/9.8 drafting and negotiation tasks who are getting digitized. And they’re terminally non-equity, so they’re not sharing in any of the upside of this shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906623)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:53 PM
Author: mind-boggling station

#All_Service_Partners: Report to conference room 42A on Monday at 9am so we can digitize your brain and fire you. Thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906635)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: Tan market

but first they're going to wear google glasses for 6 months to record everything they do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906658)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: mind-boggling station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906663)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: Nighttime Pink Gay Wizard Business Firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906654)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Mildly autistic violent parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906829)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:26 PM
Author: useless fear-inspiring rigor

but dbg assured me he would be safe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906019)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

Does he work there with knowledge that partners were hoarding $500 million all this time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906021)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:47 PM
Author: impressive preventive strike private investor

this makes no fucking sense at all. whoever makes the best general purpose AI model, will also make the best AI model for the law. it's not like kirkland will manage to make anything better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906055)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:51 PM
Author: Crystalline abode hominid

they probably tried claude code and think they can do anything now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906060)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:52 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906064)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:03 PM
Author: jet gaping orchestra pit

Fucking 180

Claude, run a 50 State search for "summary judgment standard" thank

Now do the same task 800 times per week thank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906570)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:09 PM
Author: impressive preventive strike private investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906673)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:35 PM
Author: Dead weed whacker

It'll be some bullshit wrapper on something else. They'll market it as "The Kirkland Difference"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906605)



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Date: May 28th, 2026 11:59 PM
Author: costumed walnut new version

just a chill 7 dollars per 1 dollar food court hot dog

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906074)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:31 AM
Author: Ultramarine talented nursing home

Lmao $500 million isn’t gonna do shit. Westlaw tried some ai bullshit and it’s not as good as chat cpt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906529)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:44 AM
Author: wonderful cuckold milk

probably worth them reaching out to a frontier lab and stipulating:

-- "we want our own airgapped model specifically tuned and trained in the following ways"

-- "you won't have any ongoing compute cost for this because it'll be on our own hardware -- fire and forget revenue infusion for you"

-- "this isn't creating opportunity cost for you because we can't use your API model anyway due to client restrictions (e.g. IP litigation tech clients won't let any material be run through frontier LLMs)"

probably worth a pitch because AI niggers need MONEY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906543)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: fighting khaki temple

They could buy 5% of Anthropic right now with the same cash based on its current market cap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906593)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: wonderful cuckold milk

which would not quite solve their problem, but does indicate that they could at least get a meeting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906619)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: fighting khaki temple

It would if their problem is making more $

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907213)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: bright locus

Lawfirms don't have the money for that lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906555)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:16 PM
Author: fighting khaki temple

That's like 4x Harvey's valuation which is already more overcooked than any SAAS provider in any industry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906583)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: Passionate skinny woman toilet seat

Fucking savages on XO. They're just going to create a Kirkland-specific wrapper on a third-party platform. They want to have more customization and in-house control over shit. They'll have it trained on more in-house work product. They'll be able to integrate with ediscovery vendors and the like. They'll solve some of the confidentiality concerns. It's not "inventing AI" or some dumb shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906601)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: mind-boggling station

an AI that is, on balance, in balance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906618)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:46 PM
Author: wonderful cuckold milk



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906621)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: umber azn

100%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907043)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:51 PM
Author: Flirting carnelian lodge liquid oxygen

This doesn't cost $500 million. By the way, they could do all of this with a Harvey AI sub at a small fraction of the price. They could also create some customization for Claude and spend even less. The only way to spend $500 million on this is pure incompetence or theft.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907810)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

For them to self-host their the LLM server for 800 users using open weight models, with full time support staff, would be maybe $10mm yr tops. They could do it for $5 million/yr I bet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907840)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:36 PM
Author: rambunctious heaven

I thought this meant COSTCO Kirkland-brand AI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906607)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: Tan market

so ~570 equity partners voted to forego ~$900k each to invest in this. they must have ran the numbers and decided the potential associate savings were worth it. pretty scary stuff for young lawyers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906627)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:55 PM
Author: mind-boggling station

even scarier stuff for service partners rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906641)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 12:56 PM
Author: Tan market

yeah i imagine the associates will all get cut and the service partners will be docked down to associate pay levels and the equity partners will fucking ball out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906643)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: marvelous fiercely-loyal library

I think you mean the 1/3rd of the equity partners who survive this will ball out even more than they already are balling out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906805)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:01 PM
Author: hairraiser hospital elastic band

This is Huge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906653)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 1:05 PM
Author: up-to-no-good gay chapel

*creates dynamic pricing model to change the cost of Kirkland brand Extra Virgin Olive Oil depending upon predicted customer behaviors*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906662)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: Razzle mischievous trump supporter indirect expression

JFC they’re not *actually doing this, it’s just advertising to dumbfuck GCs. They might as well have said $1 BILLION to be doubly impressive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906819)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: Misunderstood parlour

that's all these announcements ever are and people keep falling for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906832)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:47 PM
Author: hairraiser hospital elastic band

Aren't you an Engineer? Can't you use it to Engineer shit better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907032)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:34 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

https://x.com/i/status/2060128889377304715

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907018)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: burgundy dashing son of senegal meetinghouse

nutella vindicated again. got her cute shoes and jumped ship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906822)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: Cocky goal in life home

Soft-serve cones of scholarship getting extruded from Kirkland's AI law slop dispenser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906841)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:56 PM
Author: Ultramarine talented nursing home

Lmao funny we’re all lawyers and the first thing we thought of was Costco.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907711)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 4:00 PM
Author: floppy cerise range

This is over the next 3-4 years. They would have spent more than that on tokens and AI licenses anyway given the nature of their business. Not really news IMO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49906858)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Flirting carnelian lodge liquid oxygen

They absolutely would not spend $125-$200 million/year on this if they just went with an existing solution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907815)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: umber azn

I guess I can finally reveal to everyone that I work in biglaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907039)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 9:49 PM
Author: aromatic dun kitty

No litigator AIs, please

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907209)



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Date: May 29th, 2026 10:01 PM
Author: Maize Doobsian Headpube

why not spend $5 million on one? Or $50 million? Are you telling me a team of 10 or so capable software engineers couldn’t build whatever Kirkland wants it to do for that much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907238)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 1:57 PM
Author: Ultramarine talented nursing home

Or just pay for some premium ChatGPT up to date package for everyone and tell them to use chat GPT.

Also I’m guessing we’re gonna start having shit like Kirkland Costco (powered by ChatGPT) very soon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907714)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 3:52 PM
Author: Flirting carnelian lodge liquid oxygen

ChatGPT is shit, but Claude/Harvey (which is an overlay on Claude) or Gemini are all fine. You can get enterprise subs with terms that will care for confidentiality concerns.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907812)



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Date: May 30th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: poppy histrionic locale twinkling uncleanness

Whatever they are trying to do, the software is still in its infancy and no one has actually cured the hallucination problem, or the randomly-speaking-chinese problem, or the "it doesn't understand human psychology" problem. All of these platforms are still dogshit right now. They can't even OCR well. There are SAAS companies advertising cloud OCR platforms to law firms, and they brag that they do NOT use AI.

There's also no benefit to training an AI on client data vs transforming client data into vector databases. In fact it it's worse, because every time there's a new development you have to retrain the model, rather than just updating some vector database of client files. And vector databases cost nothing to deploy and maintain. This really looks like fake news to me and I don't understand why Kirkland announced this to Thomson Reuters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869753&forum_id=2#49907842)