These lawyers used ChatGPT to save time. They got fired and fined.

While previous generations of technology allowed people to search for specific keywords and synonyms across documents, today's AI models have the potential to make more sophisticated inferences, said Irina Matveeva, chief of data science and AI at Reveal, a Chicago-based legal technology company. For instance, generative AI tools might have allowed a lawyer on the Enron case to ask, "Did anyone have concerns about valuation at Enron?" and get a response based on the model's analysis of the documents.