There are new tug wars between classical legal system and AI hallucination aimed at “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” (CREAM) and रबड़ी grabbing 🏅 for लाभार्थी teams. As legal tech blurs lines between advice and info, how do real legal activists protect clients, rule of law, empower innovation, and stick to core values namely truth and justice? Ex: Hello Divorce AI (LLMv2) may empower a spouse with structured workflows, making complex legal tasks, like filing a judgment of parentage or divorce, simpler. Do such GIGO tools equals practicing law or any codes of conduct? Or merely ease access to legal info? AI tool can also automate the complex process of searching, cutting, pasting, deleting, and editing to make drafting and analysis of contracts much faster and less tedious.
While some want bespoke and custom lawyer advice, others may prefer standardized, cheaper, off-the-shelf AI quickies. This will force regulators and practitioners to rethink ethical boundaries. While AI can draft legal documents, answer questions, and streamline repetitive tasks, it also raises the stakes for accuracy and trust. AI can transform legal profession by automating routine tasks and boosting productivity with AI powered tools that handle document review, legal research, and contract analysis, could save few hours a month.
TeleMessage (Israel), used by intelligence officials, can access chat logs and IPv6 data of anyone with an active phone – whether rooted, locked, unlocked, branded, imported, assembled, updated, secured or other non-AI tweaks; just with help of the local govt, hardware / OS jugaad and telecom spectrum owner. There are no private places left, even open spaces above, tropical rain forests, water bodies… are all being mapped and grabbed for Vikshit CREAM. Obviously, such AI tools (Pegasus to Megasus) are as addictive and vulnerable as any controlled tech or media propaganda, nothing is personal or secure anywhere, anymore.
Legal pros need to create documents that are precise and enforceable w.r.t. judiciary, police, prisons and legal aid. It means AI or virtual tools used must draw from sources developed and maintained by unbiased legal experts – and be 100% transparent about sources of data. Tools developed specifically for the legal profession can conduct research on cases, precedents, and other legal topics. AI can also summarize information across many data mines and platforms much more rapidly than poring through these sources manually. Instead, legal pros can quickly get the information they need to put together strong cases, documents and briefs to cost-effectively defend clients; even opponents, poor and dalit litigants deliberately pushed into long-drawn civil or criminal procedures.
Despite the mounting pile of sanctions, public embarrassment and judicial warnings, hyper attorneys continue to submit AI-generated hallucinations to courts. Though there are bar association ethics opinions, judicial warnings, and enough legal tech info to even fill a library. Do legal systems need more spectacle dressed up in emotional pixels?
Apart from abuses of right to privacy and personal freedom via forced Apps & AI adaptations, the colonial laws are just tweaked for eyeballs. Some lawyers may argue that this leads to continued misuse for data mining & political gains, particularly against dissent or criticism of the government. Up for debate: religion, citizenship, civil rights and balance of power between state and people. Chanting vikshit nation, can we afford to trust AI or some other loose cannons for such critical legal decisions; which will shape future of any democracy, impact politics, social fabric, institutions, constitutions for many years into the future?
One wonders how many more judges will need to warn or impose sanctions before the message sinks in: AI tools may be useful for brainstorming, but they are not substitutes for traditional research and the practice of due-diligence. Bottom-line: The problem is Cash Rules Everything Around Me (CREAM) culture will creep even deeper into the pillars of legal institutions and judicial processes also. For Hindi belt’s Devanagari timelines stuck inside their mobile bunkers / media walls: चापलूसी के रबड़ी और प्रिय लाभार्थी
AI can allow you to spend time on more innovative and intellectually satisfying practices – the type of work that ideally attracts them to the profession. The role of a good lawyer is as a trusted advisor, not as a producer of documents (viz दंड संहिता), breadth of non-legal knowledge and experience is where a lawyer’s true value lies and that will remain critical. While GIGO-certified GenAI systems may continue to advance, concerns about its use and abuse won’t disappear forever just with godi media rants, manipulations, lobbying, deal-making, PR debates.. This may help push AI tools to become better?
– Author is Lead Editor / Legal Commentator at Wisepoint.org