My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are; they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul. 1
This quote was used at the outset of Bunce v. Visual Tech. Innovations, Inc. 2 – a recent case involving a lawyer who used ChatGPT to write a legal brief, which contained hallucinated or fake legal cases to support a legal argument presented to the court. As the court noted, while sanctioning the offending lawyer, “[t]o be a lawyer is to be human, a tacit prerequisite to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 11(b)(2).” 3
The future is here. Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) 4 is fully capable of generating legal briefs, coverage letters, coverage opinions, and coverage determinations. 5 Just go