AI-generated pleadings: separating facts from fictions

January/February 2024 issue of PLC Magazine

In the summer of 2023, stories began to emerge about cases concerning the use of pleadings generated by artificial intelligence (AI) before a court of law, raising questions both about a litigant’s liability for submitting fictitious case law and also the court’s approach when dealing with inaccurate submissions.

While these cases have generated some amusing headlines, the stakes are high: English legal precedent as a cornerstone of the legal system could suffer if inaccurate AI-generated submissions are accidentally adopted as true or accurate in judgments.

Partner Alex Dittel takes a deep dive into these cases in this article, which first appeared in the January/February 2024 issue of PLC Magazine.