AI is creating fake legal cases and making its way into real courtrooms, with disastrous results

  • Written by: Michael Legg, Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney & Vicki McNamara, Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
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We’ve seen deepfake, explicit images of celebrities, created by artificial intelligence (AI). AI has also played a hand in creating music, driverless race cars and spreading misinformation, among other things.

It’s hardly surprising, then, that AI also has a strong impact on our legal systems.

It’s well known that...

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