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Mike: open-source legal AI

Mike: open-source legal AI

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Comments (31)

  • reverius42
    Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.)Potentially if used with a local LLM and not a service provider, this might protect attorney-client privilege?
  • kostarelo
    For a moment I thought it was some open-source LLM trained on legal. It's not, it's a web app wrapping major LLM providers and streamlining legal workflows, uploading documents, and having the LLM providers interact with them.Cool project regardless!
  • syntaxing
    I always wondered if Justin Kan’s Atrium closed door prematurely by just 2-3 years. It would have been cool to see a “technology” driven law firm and how it would have adjusted to LLMs.
  • kernalix7
    Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.
  • sandreas
    Cool project. What a pity it's not mikefoss.com, would match the soundex of Mike Ross from suits even better ;-)
  • re_spond
    Cool initiative. Is this fully separate from "legal Mike", the Dutch company that provides a similar solution, https://legalmike.ai/product/ ?That may be confusing on the naming.
  • campers
    Interested to try it out! Some feedback on the homepage there's nothing above the fold, or directly below that says its a Legal AI platform. I would like a legal AI tool, but I'm not familiar with the space don't know what Harvey or Legora are. It was only the hackernews title "Mike: open-source legal AI" that gave the context.
  • wps
    This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?
  • scosman
    2 commits, 8 hours old....
  • albertgoeswoof
    How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?
  • higginsniggins
    Beautiful website.
  • kleiba2
    I'm so tired of having to sign up to some new service even just to try it out.
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  • dfordp11
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