Using the AI Bot
ClauseBuddy integrates with the revolutionary GPT3, as published by OpenAI. While you can expect many services to integrate with GPT3 and its successors, there are several advantages to using GPT3 from within ClauseBuddy. Read more about them below!
Word of warning
GPT3 has surprised the legal world, and many legal teams and law firms have published warnings about being careful with this technology. Aside from the hallucinations that may happen for very factual answers (much less a risk for typical contract clause drafting), a significant warning is issued for potential confidentiality issues, because OpenAI will integrate the input you submit to it in its database, for potential future reuse.
This risk is probably extremely limited when using GPT3 for drafting clauses — after all, even when you are drafting an extremely confidential agreement for a highly secretive client, it will rarely happen that your instruction towards GPT3 ("Draft a detailed duration clause that enables the supplier to terminate the contract in circumstances X and Y") will actually contain confidential information. This may happen when you include the name of the client ("Draft a detailed clause that allows Acme Inc to ...."), and confidential information may inadvertently leak when your instruction would contain very factual information about a certain situation, but these situations are probably very rare.
This risk assessment is completely different when you ask GPT3 to come up with alternatives for a certain text fragment, or to summarize selected text fragments. Obviously, the risk is real that the text fragments you select, will indeed contain confidential information.
ClauseBase uses Microsoft Azure's version of GPT3, which does not reuse your data to train the AI, which potentially causes confidentiality leaks. As explained on Microsoft's technical website, Microsoft only reserves the right to look into your data to investigate abuses or technical failures
Drafting clauses
Drafting clauses with the AI Bot is easy: you simply formulate a request in the big box, and click on the blue Draft button. The software will then come up with an answer after a few seconds. If you do not like the result, or want some additional variations, simply click on the Draft button again.
You can then either insert the text into your current MS Word file by pressing the button to the left of each result (or, as shown on the screenshot, copy the text to the clipboard when you are working in a browser).
You can also click on the ... at the right side to get a dropdown-list with additional options:
- Store the resulting clause into your clause library, perhaps after some cleanup. As it may take a few tries from you (reformulating your prompt) and GPT3, it is probably a good idea to store a clause into your own clause library, so that you and your colleagues can retrieve the clause even faster in the future.
- For similar reasons, you may instead want to send the resulting clause to a curator in your team.
- If you are using the paid version of ClauseBuddy: translate the result into other supported languages.
Drafting other legal texts
Above we talked about contract clauses, because those will be the most frequently produced paragraphs of text. However, you can also ask AI Bot to draft other types of text — from short summaries of some legal rule, to grammatical enhancements of certain fragments to text, to even poems (legal poems, of course!).
Creating text alternatives
Instead of drafting a clause, you may want to create an alternative version of some selected text. You can do so going to the Alternatives tab, selecting text within your MS Word document (or pasting text when you are using ClauseBuddy ouside of Word), and then clicking on the blue Find alternative button.
The way you use the results is similar to drating clauses, as described above.
Creating summaries
Finally, you can also ask GPT3 to create an alternative version of some selected text. You can do so going to the Alternatives tab, selecting text within your MS Word document (or pasting text when you are using ClauseBuddy ouside of Word), and then clicking on the blue Summarize button.
The way you use the results is similar to drating clauses, as described above.
