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Judges increasingly use AI for legal opinions, leading to errors

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Judges and their clerks are increasingly delegating the writing of legal opinions to AI, leading to instances of fabricated citations and errors in court rulings. A database has been compiled documenting over 2000 such decisions, with recent advanced AI models still failing to produce compliant citations more than half the time. This trend suggests a growing reliance on AI for resolving significant legal disputes, potentially without disclosure. AI

IMPACT This trend could lead to a significant shift in legal proceedings, potentially impacting fairness and accuracy in judicial decisions.

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Judges increasingly use AI for legal opinions, leading to errors

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Caleb Horn ·

    Voluntary Gradual Disempowerment in the Judiciary/Legal System

    <p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This may (or may not) be surprising to folks outside the legal system, but Judges and their clerks are beginning to delegate opinion writing to AI. This is most obvious when the </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society…

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