The Great AI Hallucination Lie: Why Legal Tech Keeps Failing You
Why the AI industry’s obsession with ‘hallucination-free’ tools keeps missing the mark- and how Iqidis is changing the game.
The Great Hallucination Lie
By now, we’ve all seen it: every few months, a new legal tech tool bursts onto the scene claiming it’s “completely error-free” and has solved hallucinations once and for all — sometimes propped up by a sponsored study at a top institution.
Then you try it and find it’s just another overpriced GPT wrapper. Why does this keep happening, and what can we actually do about it?
Today, we’d like to explain how Iqidis views hallucinations and, more importantly, how we’re tackling them. While hallucinations are a major challenge for any legal AI tool, we believe our unique approach provides the strongest foundation for overcoming them.
What Are Hallucinations?
The way we see it, hallucinations are just an AI specific term for errors. From a legal perspective this falls into two categories:
- Fake citations and/or references, and
- Bad analysis built on top of real citations.
Because the other tools are not lawyer led, they tend to over-index on fixing the first one, while completely missing the second. This is why their analysis is often surface level; missing the legal nuances that your clients need and deserve.
How Is Iqidis Different?
Because we’re practicing lawyers ourselves, we know just how crucial this is. That’s why we tackle different types of AI “hallucinations” using specialized, multi-layered solutions:
- Constantly Updated Legal Databases — We’ve indexed (and continually refresh) case law, statutes, regulations, and templates, so Iqidis can search through the most up-to-date sources. This is the foundation of our research tool, Iqidis iQ, which provides thorough legal research and citations.
- Legally Enhanced Multi-Agent System — Our layering system is able to link complex concepts together to provide complete, legally sound answers; vital for handling detailed, thought intensive tasks, and delivering depth in your work product.
If you’ve used Iqidis, you’ve likely noticed the difference.
Our approach is not without challenges — integrating results from multiple systems is a major technical hurdle. However, we believe it’s more important to tackle 70% of a big challenge (and build up from there) rather than to claim “99% effectiveness” on simpler tasks; a strategy some competitors pursue when they don’t fully grasp the real demands of legal practice.
In short, other AI tools often limit how they define “hallucinations” to claim high success rates. Our commitment is to solve the big issues in legal AI — helping you produce high-quality, reliable outputs that truly revolutionize your practice.
What’s Next For Iqidis
Law is endlessly complex and constantly evolving, so we’re always iterating to keep our systems both current and robust.
In our upcoming development cycles, we’re focusing on enhancing transparency, reducing hallucinations, and substantially boosting overall generation quality.
What You’ve Told Us About Iqidis
“I started slow, but now I use it every working day. It’s like having an associate and sounding board rolled into one. Basically, we have it review the case file and draft the pleading materials; what’s astounding is that it highlights angles we hadn’t considered. The SDNY brief I told you about came out fantastic. Overall, we’ve cut down drafting time in half. Kudos, we’re here for the ride.”
-Partner, Litigation Boutique
Let’s Talk
Do you want to learn more about Iqidis can help you? Email us at info@iqidis.ai
