A new study of federal court filings suggests that artificial intelligence may be transforming one of the oldest — and most expensive — services in American society: representation in court.
The paper, now circulating for comments before publication, reports a nationwide surge in civil lawsuits filed by people acting pro se (as their own attorneys). The researchers conclude that many of these filings were researched, drafted, or otherwise heavily assisted by large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT and Claude.
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