Last week I was with various in house lawyers looking at different AI tools that they had used in their business as well as some of the challenges that they’d found with them.
One area that we shouldn’t forget however is how we can use freely available tools like ChatGPT for various day to day tasks that we might work on.
As an example, I thought I’d do a quick demonstration of something that I set up (and which you easily could as well, with very little practice) – here is “GDPR bot”!
This is a GPT (a single-use tool, using open ai’s large language model). Because I have “fed” this tool the EU GDPR, the GPT will answer any question that you might ask about GDPR. It will do this even if you don’t know the relevant section of GDPR or how exactly to phrase your question (e.g. using the right legal language).
For instance, if you were to ask “what do you need to have in place when appointing a processor” it will pick out the provisions of Article 28 GDPR, summarise them and give you the relevant reference within GDPR.
If you deal with GPDR every day you probably know that the relevant provisions are set out in article 28 and when and how they apply - but if you didn’t know what to ask then the advantage that AI has is that it can make sense of the question and use the information it has to answer that question – finding the part of the legislation that’s relevant.
You could do this with any piece of legislation or indeed any internal company policy – meaning that someone could ask a question without knowing where to find the answer or even how to properly phrase the question and would get a sensible, understandable answer.
Of course – you should always use some caution – this AI is not actually intelligent, nothing it says amounts to legal advice and it has no training on (for instance) guidance from any regulator or case law – but it does give a good starting point for any frequently asked questions that you might receive as an in-house lawyer.
If you want to try GDPR bot for yourself (you need the premium version of open ai to do this) you can find that here..
If you’d like me to show you how to create a GPT like this for yourself then drop me a line and I’d be glad to show you.