mrihains rebrands Mike as OpenLex and quietly softens the legal disclaimers

A clean white-label that also waters down the 'not legal advice' warnings users see.

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mrihains has taken the upstream Mike codebase and reskinned it as a self-hosted product called OpenLex, stripping out the hosted-demo framing and the tiered usage plans that came with the original. It's a bring-your-own-API-key setup, so the billing tiers and "this is a demo service" notices simply don't apply and have been pulled.

The part worth a second look is the disclaimer language. The standing warning that "Answers are not legal advice" has been softened to "Check responses carefully," and the safety notices on the login and signup screens have been emptied out entirely. Anyone adopting this branch inherits a product that says noticeably less about the limits of AI-generated legal answers than the original did.

So what If you're evaluating self-hosted forks of legal-AI tools, this is a reminder to check what happened to the disclaimers before you ship - softened warnings are a liability question, not a cosmetic one.

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