Measuring & Mitigating Over-Alignment for LLMs in Multilingual Criminal Law Courts (opens in new tab)

While the wider applicability of LLMs in the legal field is currently debated due to their reliability and the gravity of any errors, narrow uses with well-understood and mitigated risks have emerged. Notably the Swiss Federal Supreme Court uses small on-premises models for tentative translations and short-passage summarization across the four official languages. However, such usage is challenging in the context of Criminal Law. Since rulings ...