What is Knowledge Source?
The material an AI tool is allowed to draw on for an answer: the open web, a legal database, the firm's precedents or one matter's documents. Picking the right one is half the task.
allowed source: this matter's files
A knowledge source is…
Write it in your own words in the app.
In real work
Noor switched the knowledge source from the open web to the firm's precedent bank before asking the assistant for a sample confidentiality clause.
In the illustration
The selector lever moves from WEB to MATTER: that bay's shutter rolls up and the other three roll down. The reading arm runs its rail past the shut bays and draws a page only from the open one.
Before answering in your legal AI tool, tell me which knowledge source fits each of these five practice questions: the open web, a legal database, firm precedents or one matter's files. Give one reason each and one risk of choosing wrong.
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