Allens didn’t trust ChatGPT, so it built Airlie
Leading law firm Allens decided to build its own version of ChatGPT because it didn’t trust the original – and didn’t want to share its expertise.
Lisa Kozaris, the firms’ chief of innovation and legal solutions, said the main problem with the public version of the transformative AI tool was that it shaped as being more trouble than it was worth.
Lisa Kozaris of Allens hopes its version of ChatPGT will help deliver its services “in a very different way”. Louise Kennerley
“We really wanted to be able to provide access to our people so that they could experiment, explore its capabilities and experience first-hand its limitations,
“But it doesn’t have the sort of enterprise level security that we or our clients would be comfortable with.”
Ms Kozaris said the firm also wasn’t comfortable with its lawyers putting prompts in ChatGPT, or uploading documents.
“We couldn’t have certainty that our prompts wouldn’t be made available to open AI; that our prompts wouldn’t be used to train the overall model.”
Now that “Airlie” is up and running she says the shackles are off.
“We really wanted them to be able to get their hands dirty and engage directly with it.
“Unless you’re actually experimenting with legal documents, your own sort of legal data, your own contracts, on substantive work, it’s actually really hard to test the potential and understand the limitations.”
While most law firms are experimenting with Open AI, Ms Kozaris believes Allens is the first in the local industry firm to have developed its own version.
“Dentons, globally, has done but to our knowledge, we’re the first in Australia to do it.”
Ms Kozaris said Airlie would help clients do a lot of their own legal work and accelerate the shift away from the billable
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