India's Byzantine Legal Maze: Why Off-the-Shelf AI Won't Cut It
A Mumbai lawyer stares at ChatGPT's bogus citation from a dead precedent. Time for native legal AI? Maybe – if it's not just hype.
For twenty years, I've seen Silicon Valley chase shiny objects. Now, a legal expert is calling out patent policy for doing the same, clinging to outdated narratives while real innovation goes misunderstood.
A Mumbai lawyer stares at ChatGPT's bogus citation from a dead precedent. Time for native legal AI? Maybe – if it's not just hype.
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