By now, nearly everyone has heard of ChatGPT, if not tried it out for themselves. While the now-ubiquitous tool is just one example of generative AI—artificial intelligence models that create brand new content, such as text, images or music—ChatGPT has put AI on the radar of even the non-tech-savvy in a way no other technology has done before.
Almost immediately after the December 2022 release of ChatGPT, a tool from OpenAI built on an AI model colloquially known as GPT-3.5, speculation about its potential uses in the legal industry ran rampant. While some concrete applications of GPT-3.5 technology in legal quickly emerged, so did arguably wild claims of what the new AI model could do.
