Perhaps we should tell law students and trainees that a quick-fix easy-win way around spending pages chatting with a LLM, is to just look up the statutes and cases themselves.
The Empty City
A judge's report on a document submitted to the court, but based on an AI's false account of the law.
The solicitor involved spent 59 pages' worth of chat with an LLM rather than looking up statute. Then used AI again to write an apology to the court.
A fascinating story, coolly told.
Charles Antaki
Artificial Intelligence and legal work - a crucial case to read
There was a routine court application which would usually go through on nod, but the judge suspected something was not right and asked questions, and this then came out.
If you must use AI, be careful.
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
