if your lawyer uses google, microsoft or apple for email, maybe better look for another lawyer…
everything one of these (or other) giants know can be assumend to be compromised already in one way or possibly many others or at least in near future.
imagine you email your client some note, that he should carry some documents next time and the giant running word probability algorythms only to look later at the real outcome of the trial and the tactics used by you in front of court to be able to warn THEIR customers about what YOU might currently try to do in front of a court to win against someone. it intentionally removes parts of the value of your work to sell that to their customers while using data that is supposed to be private for reasons.
a lawyer who gives away hints about any of his actions to a tech giant NOW has a high probability that his work isnt worth a dime any longer in mid-term future only because of how lazy he was with his and his clients privacy TODAY.
just to mention.
The thing is, most people don’t care about privacy. Even if the person knows about the broader privacy issue, he/she may not care. It’s all about convenience and dopamine hit in the modern digitised world.
Also, the most privacy-respecting emails has less brand name recognition. Most people are accustomed to Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. If they see Tuta as the email address, most people would think it’s odd and maybe even fake. In an industry where reputation and name recognition is important, especially in legal, Tuta would sound suspicious. I know I would feel the same if I weren’t familiar with Tuta and the lawyers uses Tuta. I know there is Proton, which has a more marketable name, but the CEO is a fascist-loving Trumper so it’s not any better for privacy in the future.
The bit about avoidance might be insightful. Some people have anxiety about reading and writing, and the LLMs feel like they’re helping. But as this post says, they’re not. They’re making the anxiety worse in the long term.
Many people legitimately are bad at reading and writing. You’ll won’t find a ton of them here, on a platform that’s mostly text, but they’re out there. Struggling though life, probably embarrassed. An LLM that purports to let them skip uncomfortably engaging with text probably feels like a godsend. But it’s a trap. It’s a tarpit they’ll get stuck in and never develop skills of their own.
I keep telling people that AI will atrophy their brain the same way that tools like Google Maps did. We can’t navigate for shit now unless a piece of software tells us the route. The same thing is going to happen, but to really important judgment and thinking skills.
I stopped using navigation for the most part. Mind you, I grew up using maps but it only took a couple months for my navigation skills to cone back.
2023 is when I first got a vehicle with a nav display, and that definitely dulled the more detailed navigation senses.
Cardinal directions still solid but the take a left on Y after X street info I had been cataloging in the back of my mind fell off quickly once I started turn by turn directions all the time.
I’ve restored my navigation skills by playing through the Dark Souls trilogy. No map, no objective markers, just you and the slightly janky third person camera.
This worked for me too but I still have trouble navigating landmarks that aren’t flaming wolfmen nailed to a cross, or colossal castles by the sea guarded by a dragon skeleton
Concerned about privacy yet still using gmail, let’s hope this was the wakeup call they needed!
That was my take away too. Like I really wouldn’t want my lawyer using Gmail.
What should they use then? Confidential information shouldn’t be sent through emails anyway. Might as well just choose the convenient way for the rest.
I’d be confused if my lawyer would use gmail. It would be like walking into his office and he uses alexa.
reading speed of 1500 wpm
this is bait
Not if he’s measuring his scanning speed and not his literal reading speed.
Which is the sort of thing that the folk who teach scanning to professionals who need to “read” hundreds of pages each day call their techniques. They used to be all over the place until enough people called them out on the mislabel.
(Not to mention three-cuing…)
25 words per second. Like would you ever jog on with that.
https://www.tumblr.com/thelawfulchaotic/807267774110089216?source=share
I wanted to see the original post in my feed, so here’s the link if anyone else wants to reblog.
Here it is just outright spoiling a joke (censored, but you can see that it quotes the punchline):
Oh that’s downright evil.
“Gemini, I’m thinking about reading the Harry Potter series. What can you tell me about it?”
“Snape kills Dumbledore.”
…
“Nevermind, I’ll read something else.”
