Blackstone v LLMs

[legaltextai]

First off, thanks so much for this curriculum. Very helpful as a self-study guide.
Some of the Blackstone functionalities could probably be already replaced / complemented by LLMs, or fine tuned LLMs.
What do you think?

[kasnder]

Good question. We're actually actively exploring the use of LLMs for those purposes in our own research. The strenght of Blackstone, for now, might be that there's a fully working library, as well as the fact that it teaches a slightly more structured NLP approach than LLMs currently do. However, Blackstone is also rather unmaintained and has deprecated libraries, so it'd generally be good to consider alternatives.

[legaltextai]

The extraction & summarization skills of some LLMs are incredibly good if properly prompted. And of course, you may always fine tune many models to your liking. Don't get me wrong, Blackstone is super helpful and I can only imagine the amount of work that went into it. LLMs could be a good complement to it. Happy to chat or collaborate any time.