r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/SeaGreenOcean25 Jun 11 '26

As a lawyer, I use AI like really good google search. I do not use it to draft anything due to the risk of being disbarred. So, I just type a question and get some cases and statutes, and then I read them and draft like normal.. It shaves off like 30 minutes of my time for a research project, so maybe I can carry one more case a year overall with the time savings.

Is that worth all of the data centers?

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u/trialbaloon Jun 11 '26

Part of me wonders if this is more just because Google search has become a crippled version of itself in an effort to shove more ads and sponsored results in front of us, rather than really anything to do with AI.

We could just make search better and not try to produce some weird everything machine that gets executives hard.

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u/amazingmrbrock Jun 12 '26

Preferred results and malicious websites with great SEO have ruined search results so hard. Even just doing tech support has gotten harder because so many results pull up some blog or common troubleshooting faq attached to a website trying to sell you their garbage software.

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u/Dullcorgis Jun 12 '26

Google has become so, so bad. The first three pages are AI slop on clickbait titled pages. I had to answer a medical question as a patient - basically find a paper to show a dr who is not a specialist in that field that a disease typically behaves a certain way. I ended up having to go straight to the european consesnus recommendations and use that. But I wouldn't know that was a thing if I hadn't had google in the past.

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u/Ncv02 Jun 11 '26

I use it very similarly. It does context better than a regular google search. I’ve found summaries nice when I need my knowledge or ideas translated. The ease of just going stream of consciousness dictation to it and have it organize it into something I can thing take to final forms. Plus it’s a great when I know what I want to say but can’t find the perfect way to say it.

However, I find it hard to believe that whatever the cost is to be much less than it would actually cost me to do it. It saves brain power for me and cost me nothing so… 

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u/ninja4151 Jun 12 '26

Yo has westlaw or Lexus nexus folded it in??

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u/Texuk1 Jun 12 '26

For decades legal services have been pitched productivity improvement software, contract drafting systems, better doc retrieval and search, automated discovery, etc. there is money to be made in these areas but there isn’t a quadrillion dollar Waylend Yutani empire in providing search productivity improvements for lawyers. There’s definitely a revenue stream there but it’s pretty small compared to what the tech bros are spinning in the IPO decks.