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People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
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A new research paper suggests that generative AI tools are driving a significant increase in pro se legal cases, where individuals represent themselves in court. The authors warn that this surge in AI-assisted self-representation could overwhelm the judicial system with more complex and frequent filings.
Why it matters
Automated legal assistance threatens to overwhelm judicial capacity by inflating the volume and complexity of pro se filings.
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