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Don’t get me wrong: The prompts are well-crafted. But: They’re not magic. They’re structured instructions for tasks that legal professionals have been doing for decades.

If this is trying to say why these prompts aren't bad news for the profession, I think it just did the opposite.

They were taken as bad news because instructions to "AI" that genuinely execute tasks that legal professionals have been doing for decades IS magic. Obviously very bad magic for the future of the existing legal profession and the $billions invested in it.

Whether its genuine or not is of course a different matter. But hey, there's no telling investors who seriously believe stocastic parrottry is AI, especially when they've bet $billions on that self same delusion.

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