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AI-Powered Legal Aid for Pakistan's Unrepresented Millions

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A CS student built HAQ, a RAG-based AI that answers legal questions using Pakistani legislation. It retrieves actual law sections to avoid hallucination, addressing the gap where 220 million people lack affordable legal access. The system uses section-level chunking of 100+ Acts for accurate, citable responses.

Meridian48 take
The project's focus on retrieval-augmented generation over pure LLM output is a smart design choice for high-stakes domains like law, but scaling to all provincial acts and ensuring accuracy remains a massive challenge.
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