Have
you
ever
sat
in
court
because
of
a
property
dispute
and
wanted
to
yell
out
“@Grok,
is
this
true?”
at
the
judge?
If
the
answer
is
yes
and
you
happen
to
attend
UChicago
Law,
you
could
have
the
opportunity
to
code
your
own
bespoke
LLM
that
will
help
you
address
the
sort
of
legal
problems
that
landlords
and
tenants
have
to
deal
with
when
things
go
wrong.
UChicago
will
be
offering
a
course
aiming
to
democratize
renter’s
rights
know-how
to
the
public:
Students
enrolled
in
the
lab
will
spend
the
fall
quarter
building
a
database
of
meticulously
researched
summaries
around
[Renter’s
rights].
The
workshop
will
challenge
students
to
approach
the
project
with
an
entrepreneurial
mindset
as
they
learn
what
goes
into
making
a
legal-tech
product.
Part
of
the
work
will
involve
determining
scope
of
need:
Students
will
interview
people
to
understand
what
questions
they
have
around
the
topic
to
make
sure
that
the
tool
they
create
is
useful
to
general
users.
The
only
real
question
is
if
the
course
requires
a
background
in
coding
beyond
what
skills
people
managed
to
hold
on
to
from
changing
their
old
MySpace
pages.
I’m
probably
dating
myself
a
little
there
—
chances
are
we’ve
hit
the
point
that
people
have
started
to
code
by
using
Chat-GPT.
For
what
it’s
worth,
you
can
probably
still
use
that
to
figure
out
who
your
top
8
friends
are;
just
don’t
be
surprised
if
Sam
Altman
keeps
popping
up
on
the
list
for
some
reason.
The
plan
for
the
course
is
to
inundate
an
LLM
with
data
base
of
legal
summaries
that
the
public
will
be
able
to
use.
Limiting
the
pool
of
information
that
the
LLM
will
pull
from
will
not
only
make
it
more
likely
that
users
will
get
better
answers
than
if
they
were
to
type
their
tenant
related
questions
in
to
a
more
generalized
LLM,
the
specificity
of
the
information
pool
will
probably
make
it
a
lot
harder
for
users
to
end
up
developing
psychosis
from
over-use.
Kudos
for
embarking
on
an
ambitious
project
with
aspirations
a
bit
more
humble
than
feeding
every
case
to
AI
so
we
can
replace
judges:
Landlord
tenant
law
is
an
area
where
the
public
could
definitely
use
a
set
of
(automated?)
hands.
According
to
averages
compiled
by
CivilRightToCounsel.org,
landlords
are
represented
by
counsel
83%
of
the
time
compared
to
the
downright
dismal
4%
that
tenants
enjoy.
Going
pro
se
with
a
UChigago
AI
program
is
unlikely
to
be
as
promising
as
managing
to
retain
Alex
Spiro
on
your
matter,
but
it
will
(hopefully)
help
tenants
fair
better
than
going
in
empty
handed.
Best
of
luck
to
Kimball
Dean
Parker
and
his
class!
AI
Lab
is
Coming
to
UChicago
Law
[UChigago]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.