AI & Law
AI in the legal system and the legal battles over AI — copyright lawsuits against AI companies, liability for AI-generated harm, AI-generated evidence in courts, AI tools for legal research, and the fundamental questions of who is responsible when AI causes damage.
Brazilian Courts Punish AI Manipulation Before the Law Defines It
Brazil's judiciary sanctioned lawyers for AI abuse before its legislature defined the rules — establishing enforcement precedent that written law has not yet caught up to.
- ·Brazil's judiciary sanctioned AI manipulation at both first-instance and supreme court levels before any statutory definition of AI misuse in legal practice existed.
- ·Hiding an adversarial prompt inside a petition is legally distinct from submitting hallucinated citations — courts are already treating it as an attack on adjudicative infrastructure, not a negligence failure.
- ·The STJ's notification to the OAB signals that individual sanctions are no longer sufficient — the courts are demanding a professional standard from the bar association itself.
AI Malpractice Ads Have Found Their Audience in Attorney Subreddits
Vendors pitching AI liability protection to lawyers signal a market that has stopped selling efficiency and started selling fear to practitioners already using the tools.
Artists Built Workarounds While Courts Deliberated
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement exposed how thoroughly artists have stopped waiting for litigation to protect them.
A Student Filed a Racial Discrimination Suit With AI as His Lawyer
Stanley Zhong's lawsuit against UW, filed with ChatGPT and Gemini as counsel, makes AI legal representation a present-day court problem, not a future one.
Federal Courts Are Writing AI Evidence Rules in Real Time
With over 300 federal judges now requiring AI disclosure, courts are building evidentiary rules before Congress acts — and lawyers who miss them face sanctions.