Brazil Hires OpenAI To Cut Costs of Court Battles 16
Brazil's government is partnering with OpenAI to use AI for expediting the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits to reduce costly court losses impacting the federal budget. Reuters reports: The AI service will flag to government the need to act on lawsuits before final decisions, mapping trends and potential action areas for the solicitor general's office (AGU). AGU told Reuters that Microsoft would provide the artificial intelligence services from ChatGPT creator OpenAI through its Azure cloud-computing platform. It did not say how much Brazil will pay for the services. AGU said the AI project would not replace the work of its members and employees. "It will help them gain efficiency and accuracy, with all activities fully supervised by humans," it said.
Court-ordered debt payments have consumed a growing share of Brazil's federal budget. The government estimated it would spend 70.7 billion reais ($13.2 billion) next year on judicial decisions where it can no longer appeal. The figure does not include small-value claims, which historically amount to around 30 billion reais annually. The combined amount of over 100 billion reais represents a sharp increase from 37.3 billion reais in 2015. It is equivalent to about 1% of gross domestic product, or 15% more than the government expects to spend on unemployment insurance and wage bonuses to low-income workers next year. AGU did not provide a reason for Brazil's rising court costs.
Court-ordered debt payments have consumed a growing share of Brazil's federal budget. The government estimated it would spend 70.7 billion reais ($13.2 billion) next year on judicial decisions where it can no longer appeal. The figure does not include small-value claims, which historically amount to around 30 billion reais annually. The combined amount of over 100 billion reais represents a sharp increase from 37.3 billion reais in 2015. It is equivalent to about 1% of gross domestic product, or 15% more than the government expects to spend on unemployment insurance and wage bonuses to low-income workers next year. AGU did not provide a reason for Brazil's rising court costs.
Tim and Eric predicted this (Score:2)
With their Cinco product...
Who's the victim here? (Score:2)
Wait, this story sounds like the Brazil *government* is losing a lot of lawsuits against it, and wants AI to help out. Maybe they could save money by not breaking the laws so much?
"Court-ordered debt payments have consumed a growing share of Brazil's federal budget." Sounds like the government needs to pay what it needs to pay instead of finding ways to weasel out of bad decisions it made in the past.
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If I understand it correctly, it actually means that the government can't keep up with Justice deadlines and end up losing most of the lawsuits because of this.
I have a prompt! (Score:1)
Can I ask the AI what the easiest way to make money in Brazil would be after it's analyzed all that data?
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*grabs popcorn and mumbles* What could go wrong? (Score:2)
Let's check in next year and see the wonderful result of this decision.
I'm holding out for... (Score:2)
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... he IS the law
Insert one (1) Idiocracy joke to continue... (Score:2)
If Brazil wasn't dystopian enough (the country, not the movie) with widespread robbery and crushing inequality with favelas looking like the highways surrounding San Jose, CA but spread out in all directions.
Hiding The Problem With AI-Hype Smoke (Score:2)
AGU did not provide a reason for Brazil's rising court costs.
Well, it ain't that hard. Corruption.
Hiring OpenAI's ChatGPT to solve this issue is like Microsoft using AI to solve its security breaches in its products.
For those that are still surfing the AI-hype, I'm being ironic.
How much this costs (Score:2)
At https://noticias.uol.com.br/ul... [slashdot.org] >local news sites (pt-BR), it is stated BRL25mi were allocated to digital projects, which includes this. In the current currency exchange rates, this converts to around USD5mi.
language of law (Score:1)
Usage of AI in law could be useful, for many years now I have been convinced that the lawyer speak being highly formalized and comples is a perfect area for automation.
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Usage of AI in law could be useful....
We've already seen LLM's used in law, and the outcomes have been awful. The LLM's just make shit up and pass it off as fact. Everyone who thinks LLM's are useful in decision making needs to remember that the decisions are based on the probability of a letter following the previous letter. That's the extent of an LLM's intelligence.
Oh, just like lawyers tend to do (Score:2)
AI is not Justice (Score:2)
As if the legal system needed to become more byzantine than it already is...
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. The issue here is not just that Brazil is doing this, but that cost-saving in the judicial system almost always comes with the consequence of denying justice to the poor and politically disfavored groups. Once Brazil has shown that they can save money using AI, the United States will not be far behind. Soon, those who don't fit a particular pattern of victimization will