The obvious business opportunity here is for some lawyer to start running an AI service to do these kinds of things. Anyone who subscribes is a client of the lawyer, who owns the chatbot infrastructure, which would be protected under attorney client privilege.

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lukan 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The buisness opportunity is what they are advertising here, communication with lawyers is protected, continue to go pay real lawyers for every question and don't try yourself with AI, that is unfortunately not protected.

	▲	breakpointalpha 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, so the lawyer can use AI to answer your questions and then the judge can discover that, since there isn't attorney-bot privilege. :/

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dlcarrier 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It would have to be communications, to be protected.

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OutOfHere 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is such a thing as anonymous chat facilitated through local LLMs or through cryptocurrency.

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jcranmer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

... that is not how attorney-client privilege works.

	▲	airstrike 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		just write PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL in the system prompt