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AI-generated legal filings are making a mess of the judicial system | Honestly, who didn't see this coming? Legal experts say it's only going to get worse
A recent Ars Technica report detailed a Georgia appeals court decision highlighting a growing risk for the US legal system: AI-generated hallucinations creeping into court filings and...
Now they're creeping into the courts, fueling bogus filings that judges face amid heavy caseloads – raising new risks for a legal system already stretched thin. As AI becomes more accessible to both overwhelmed lawyers and self-represented litigants, experts say judges will increasingly face filings filled with fake cases, phantom precedents, and garbled legal reasoning dressed up to look legitimate. Researchers, like Peter Henderson at Princeton's Polaris Lab, are developing tools to track AI's influence on court filings and are advocating for open repositories of legitimate case law to simplify verification.
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