Weinberg: Lawyers cannot distinguish synthetic legal docs from human-written ones
Winston Weinberg · Inside Harvey AI: CEO Winston Weinberg on How a 4-Year-Old Company Is Taking on the Foundation Labs · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jun 16, 2026 · at 16:16
Harvey AI CEO Winston Weinberg explains how coding models overcome the scarcity of proprietary legal training data.
“But the thing that happened with like the last generation of coding models is you can actually take sets of documents and create synthetic docs that are so good that the lawyers can't tell the difference between whether they're created, you know, by an actual lawyer or they're created by the coding models.”
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