Using the AI Bot
Updated
by Maarten Truyens
ClauseBuddy integrates with the revolutionary GPT4, as published by Microsoft. Keep reading to know how you can leverage the power of this new technology right from within ClauseBuddy!
Features
Drafting full documents
You can instruct the AI Bot to generate an entire outline of a document, and then interactively add clauses to them β either from your own clause library, or generated by the AI Bot.
Read more about it on our dedicated page.
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 ... button 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 GPT4, 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 β 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 GPT4 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.
Confidentiality
GPT3 and its successors has surprised the legal world, and many legal teams and law firms have published warnings about being careful with this technology β particularly as regards the hallucinations that may happen for very factual answers (much less a risk for typical contract clause drafting)
ClauseBuddy uses Microsoft Azure's version of GPT4, which does not reuse your data to train the AI (as the OpenAI version does, 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.
Do note that, at this moment, the free version of ClauseBuddy uses the Microsoft-version of GPT4 with servers located in the United States. (The paid version uses Microsoft's servers located in France.) However, you can enjoy all the data protection guarantees that Microsoft offers.
Word of warning
Also, you should be aware that Microsoft (similar to OpenAI) applies content filtering on the prompts and the answers. Any profanity, sexual content, semi-illegal content, etc. will therefore likely be refused by GPT4.
