What's this about?
OpenAI's legal configuration combines Astra, a US legal search index and domain instructions. In its 200-question validation comparison, correctness was 54.0% versus 38.7% with ordinary web search; selected-firm access starts first, API follows.
What exactly is legal search index?
A curated retrieval tool finds authorities and relevant passages for lawyers to inspect. It improves access to sources, but neither source coverage nor benchmark gains eliminate wrong interpretations or citations.
What's the community saying?
HN 341 points, 368 comments.
- Who bears responsibility when contracts or citations are wrong?
- Will labs compete with legal-AI vendors or remain their supplier?
- Readers worry about unequal resources and displacement of professional work.