It was always going to happen. One day, a legal firm would swap out decades of precedent and procedure for something scraped up by a chatbot, and end up citing case law that didn’t exist. Because we all know large language models are designed to predict the next word and not the next fact. So the last thing we should trust it with is formal references and citations. Especially in law.
Oh wait. It turns out we don’t all know...
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