Using AI-Generated Legal Docs Without Review
Type: warning
Stage: Stage 8: Terms / Trust Proof
Difficulty: beginner
AI can help draft and explain legal documents, but publishing one without reviewing it against your actual product, data flows, and jurisdiction is a compliance liability.
Overview
AI can help draft, summarize, or explain. It should not be treated as your lawyer.
Avoid when
Your privacy policy or terms contain generic language that does not match your product, data flows, users, jurisdiction, refund policy, or payment model. Generic documents create false confidence — and in a dispute or regulatory inquiry, they provide no protection.
Better signal
Policies generated from reputable tools like iubenda or Termly, reviewed for accuracy against your actual product, and updated when the product changes. The review step is not optional — it is the difference between a document that protects you and one that contradicts you.