Adobe Now Lets You Waste Five Dollars Per Month on A.I. Summaries of Legal Contracts ⇥ engadget.com

Mariella Moon, Engadget:

Adobe has updated the Acrobat AI Assistant, giving it the ability to understand contracts and to compare them for you. The company says it can help you make sense of complex terms and spot differences between agreements, such as between old and new ones, so you can understand what you’re signing. With the AI Assistant enabled, the Acrobat app will be able to recognize if a document is a contract, even if it’s a scanned page. It can identify and list key terms from there, summarize the document’s contents and recommend questions you can ask based on what’s in it.

Raise your hand if you would sign a contract — a legally binding document — based on the way an A.I. system understands it. Anyone? If this flags anything at all, you will probably need to check with a lawyer for a reliable opinion, and they cost way more than five dollars per month. No judge is going to sympathize with a misunderstanding because Adobe’s A.I. product summarized it all wrong.