ZeroHour
404 Mediapublished ()ingested Emanuel Maiberg

People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System

lowPolicy & legalimportance 30
Full article137 words · extracted from 404media.co · click to collapse

Advertisement

News

· 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.

People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
Photo by Wesley Tingey / Unsplash

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. 

This post is for paid members only

Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.

Subscribe

Sign up for free access to this post

Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week's stories.

Subscribe

Already have an account? Sign in

Text extracted automatically; images, tables and formatting may be missing. Original: https://www.404media.co/people-using-ai-to-represent-themselves-in-court-are-clogging-the-system/