Everyone Clicks 'I Agree.' No One Reads Them: I Fine-Tuned a 4B Model with Tinker to Catch Unfair Terms of Service in 30 Seconds

Description and use

<p>The average consumer Terms of Service contract is <strong>9,000 words long</strong>. </p> <p>Reading one carefully takes about 35 minutes of agonizing focus through dense legalese, nested definitions, and cross-referenced indemnity clauses. An active software engineer or web user signs roughly 30 to 40 of these agreements every single year. That’s more than 20 hours of reading just to avoid giving away your legal rights.</p> <p>Naturally, nobody reads them. We scroll directly to the bottom, click the cheerful blue <strong>"I agree to the Terms of Service"</strong> button, and move on with o

Problem

<p>The average consumer Terms of Service contract is <strong>9,000 words long</strong>. </p> <p>Reading one carefully takes about 35 minutes of agonizing focus through dense legalese, nested definitions, and cross-referenced indemnity clauses. An active software engineer or web user signs roughly 30 to 40 of these agreements every single year. That’s more than 20 hours of reading just to avoid giving away your legal rights.</p> <p>Naturally, nobody reads them. We scroll directly to the bottom, click the cheerful blue <strong>"I agree to the Terms of Service"</strong> button, and move on with o

Outcome

<p>The average consumer Terms of Service contract is <strong>9,000 words long</strong>. </p> <p>Reading one carefully takes about 35 minutes of agonizing focus through dense legalese, nested definitions, and cross-referenced indemnity clauses. An active software engineer or web user signs roughly 30 to 40 of these agreements every single year. That’s more than 20 hours of reading just to avoid giving away your legal rights.</p> <p>Naturally, nobody reads them. We scroll directly to the bottom, click the cheerful blue <strong>"I agree to the Terms of Service"</strong> button, and move on with o

Evidence

Everyone Clicks 'I Agree.' No One Reads Them: I Fine-Tuned a 4B Model with Tinker to Catch Unfair Terms of Service in 30 Seconds

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