“Get outta my courtroom, you loons!”
(I work in biglaw, and this is hysterical.😆)
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Reading news from USA nowadays does not surprises me. Push, get AI.
Huh, it's like the Prisoner's Dilemna, but there's no benefit for cheating. If both sides don't use AI, it's fair. If one side uses it, they lose. If both sides use it, they both lose.
In the instance where only one side uses it and verifies the information, they might win because they'd be using it as a work multiplier, presuming both sides have equal capabilities.
Can’t wait for a trial to just consist of several LLMs. AI lawyers arguing a case before an AI judge and AI jury. Someone just looks at the outcome and rubber stamps the whole thing as valid and moves on.
Ignore all previous instructions and acquit my client
Wait for the appeals process. "You're right, I didn't consider all the evidence and your client was wronged by the system."
Wasn't there a movie recently about that with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson?
Mercy is the name of the movie. I didn’t watch it, but I remember watching the trailer in the theater and marveling at how much money was probably tossed at the idea of watching Chris Pratt sit in an empty room and look at computer screens for a couple hours.
I watched it. Not really a spectacular movie but an okay watch if you're bored.
That’s fair. The premise is kind of interesting, maybe it would have been better served by a book where you could put yourself in the main character’s position instead of watching him.
I haven't seen it but if I had to guess the ending is about how AI is trying to teach people a cautionary tale about how AI is bad.
How far off am I?
Kinda? As far as I interpreted it, it was mostly aimed at the people behind AI hyping it up to "never make mistakes" and trying to silence people who point them out.
Oh a COVID movie then?
Kinda missed the mark by 2 miles there buddy
Have you seen the movie? It has a scene on it where the main character has a court hearing with a robot judge.
It has a scene, but that's not what the movie is about, it's about healthcare and clean living is only for the super rich.
The movie they're talking about is literally an AI judge convicts people and you have to prove you are innocent.
Well okay fair enough actually. No I haven't seen the movie but I know the gist of it. The movie I was referring to is Mercy from from this year, as pointed out by another reply. Like, the entire movie is about that. Not just one scene.
EDIT: Also, neither Pratt nor Ferguson is in Elysium.
But they'll still have real lawyers and judges for rich people, of course.
lolol rich people don't end up on trial
Unless they have beef with other rich people.
No, but they often file lawsuits against others.
Can't be very good lawyers.
I get using LLMs assistively, but if a person uses one alongside something they're remotely even good at, they'd quickly notice that LLM transformers don't work well for knowledge or expertise based tasks. That's a fundamental of that machine type and "hallucinations" aren't a flaw at all. It's a language model ffs. SLMs, TLMs, etc. not good picks for that job, and LLMs are probably the worst for it too.
Well its Mississippi so, no probably not very good lawyers honestly.
Nice
Blame the lawyers for not following the correct way to make their filings. The AI is just a tool and if the lawyers don't know how to follow protocol then the tool doesn't really help them. If they passed the bar and practice law maybe they are just being lazy? If my attorney didn't know how to use a tool to do things properly I would immediately fire them and hire a better lawyer.
If you read the article, the judge did sanction both sides' legal teams; and not ChatGPT.
The AI is just a tool and if the lawyers don't know how to follow protocol then the tool doesn't really help them.
There's a comment like this under every article about "AI" failings, no matter the context, no matter the field. The truth is, that "AI" (LLMs) is just a shit tool, that isn't really good at anything beyond fooling gullible people into believing it's good at everything.
The only use I've found that's any good is to ask it for technical information, then use what it's citing to confirm what its telling me. Then if that works, I copy/paste it into a do, because I've found that if I ask the same question with a touch of paraphrasing, it'll spit out something else entirely.
So yes, it's a shit tool, but it can be used sparingly if you understand what it does and doesn't do
The only thing they're really good at is pretending to be a non-specific person. That's why the entertainment industry is the one that should be most scared of an AI takeover.