People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
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· Apr 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
More people having access to the courts is potentially good, but it’s not clear how the system can handle this increase in cases.
The number of pro se legal cases, meaning trials where a defendant or plaintiff represents themselves in court without an attorney, have increased dramatically since the wide adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, according to a pre-print research paper.
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