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The judge hearing the case.

If I were a judge, I'd only have a slightly more negative or skeptical attitude towards IAC/Match as a result of that PR statement, at best. I'm not buying the wisdom yet. Anyone have something more convincing? Or am I wrong about most judge's mindsets? Don't judges 'see through' PR? Isn't their job about facts, not being influenced by rhetoric? Are our judges crap? BTW, this is one reason why AI ought to assist judges, lawyers and court cases more and more because of how emotion gets in the way of otherwise clear thinking which can be critical when people's lives are in the balance.

Can you give an example of how AI might help judges/lawyers/etc discern facts and avoid the influence of rhetoric?

Isn't it a bigger issue that even if people agree on the facts, the law can be mushy with concepts like "reasonable" such that two people can reasonably disagree on what is reasonable given the same facts?

Was reading this comment chain and did a double take on “Can you give an example of how AI might help...” coming out of the blue.

Yep this is hacker news.

But, based on your statement, we safely assume you're not a judge or even a legal professional?

So without alternative argument from other legal professionals it is safe to assume that the legal professionals who crafted the statement, do so for it's effectiveness in achieving their goal, which is winning this suit and not for PR or convincing you personally.

I have no idea why this is downvoted, I think this is pretty profound.

AI, or even sentiment analysis, could easily filter non-factual posturing from statements of objective fact. Of course, people can filter it too, you never see this type of crap slip in to an academic journal.

I think if an AI auto-highlighted social-judgements it could revolutionize how a lot of things are read (a news article, HN, etc)

I will say (and this is meta), I'm more than happy to take a hit every now and then for the sake of how comments work here because after my experience on other tech news sites' comment sections (e.g. Ars Technica, sorry to name names) which are full of emotional hysteria, mob mentality, and upvote whoring, I've come to see that HN has by far the most quality Internet comment culture anywhere - I've never seen it on the Internet before in my 20 years. So I don't mind, let's keep commenting when and where we think we have something useful to say, and thinking freely and openly in a way that's pretty strongly protected by the excellent guidelines established here at HN.

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