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Research Notes: The Precedent Machine

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A Z Mackay
Jul 02, 2025
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What happens when pattern matching gets faster than human reading speed?

Stanford’s benchmarking research on legal AI gave me the first answer I wasn’t expecting: hallucination rates of 17-33% depending on the system. But the deeper finding was buried in their methodology notes: even retrieval-augmented generation systems (the ones that s…

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