AI might not be coming for lawyers' jobs anytime soon Generative AI might have aced the bar exam, but an LLM still can't think like a lawyer. When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. "Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted," she recalls. So when it came time to choose a speciality, Miller--now a junior associate at the law firm Orrick--decided to become a litigator, the kind of lawyer who represents clients in court. She hoped the courtroom would be the last human stage. "Judges haven't allowed ChatGPT-enabled robots to argue in court yet," she says.

Authors and publishers have filed multiple lawsuits over this issue, and in a new twist, researchers have shown that at least one AI model has not only used popular books in its training data, but also memorised their contents verbatim. But now, researchers have tested multiple models to see how much of that training data they can spit back out verbatim. They found that many models do not retain the exact text of the books in their training data – but one of Meta's models has memorised almost the entirety of certain books. If judges rule against the company, the researchers estimate that this could make Meta liable for at least 1 billion in damages. "That means, on the one hand, that AI models are not just'plagiarism machines', as some have alleged, but it also means that they do more than just learn general relationships between words," says Mark Lemley at Stanford University in California.

This was the second time Linklaters had run its LinksAI benchmark tests, with the original exercise taking place in October 2023. In the first run, OpenAI's GPT 2, 3 and 4 were tested alongside Google's Bard. The exam has now been expanded to include o1, from OpenAI, and Google's Gemini 2.0, which was also released at the end of 2024. It did not involve DeepSeek's R1 - the apparently low cost Chinese model which astonished the world last month - or any other non-US AI tool. The test involved posing the type of questions which would require advice from a "competent mid-level lawyer" with two years' experience.

Despite an increasing academic interest in Legal NLP research over the last years, AI-assisted contract review, especially in languages other than English, has received little attention [KATZ 2023]. One major hurdle for that may be the scarcity of sufficient, annotated training data. Semantic annotations of legal texts can only be done by legal experts, resulting in high costs and a scarcity of publicly available datasets. The situation worsens when legal texts, such as employment contracts, include sensitive personal information. A partnership with a German law firm specializing in Economic Law now enables us to conduct more research in this area. As part of a collaborative project, we aim to design, implement, and evaluate a prototypical AIbased system for assisting in the review and correction of German employment contracts. To initiate our research efforts and encourage further investigations and experiments by other researchers, we release an anonymized and annotated dataset of clauses from German employment contracts (License: CC BY-NC 4.0), along with their respective legality and categorization labels. Additionally, we provide benchmarks for both open-and closed-source baseline models.

Over the years, Engadget has been the target of a common SEO scam, wherein someone claims ownership of an image and demands a link bank to a particular website. A lot of other websites would tell you the same thing, but now the scammers are making their fake DMCA takedown notices and threats of legal action look more legit with the help of easily accessible AI tools. Like older, similar attempts at duping the recipient, the sender said they're reaching out "in relation to an image" connected to their client. In this case, the sender demanded the addition of a "visible and clickable link" to a website called "tech4gods" underneath the photo that was allegedly stolen. Since Tedium actually used a photo from a royalty-free provider, the publisher looked into the demand, found the law firm's website, and upon closer inspection, realized that the images of its lawyers were generated by AI.

Many people have long feared that A.I. would kill jobs. But a boom in the technology has instead spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies and universities to create what has become the hottest new role in corporate America and beyond: the senior executive in charge of A.I. The Equifax credit bureau, the manufacturer Ashley Furniture and law firms such as Eversheds Sutherland have appointed A.I. executives over the past year. In December, The New York Times named an editorial director of A.I. initiatives. And more than 400 federal departments and agencies looked for chief A.I. officers last year to comply with an executive order by President Biden that created safeguards for the technology.

A US judge has fined two lawyers and a law firm $5,000 (£3,935) after fake citations generated by ChatGPT were submitted in a court filing. A district judge in Manhattan ordered Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay the fine after fictitious legal research was used in an aviation injury claim. Schwartz had admitted that ChatGPT, a chatbot that churns out plausible text responses to human prompts, invented six cases he referred to in a legal brief in a case against the Colombian airline Avianca. The judge P Kevin Castel said in a written opinion there was nothing "inherently improper" about using artificial intelligence for assisting in legal work, but lawyers had to ensure their filings were accurate. "Technological advances are commonplace and there is nothing inherently improper about using a reliable artificial intelligence tool for assistance," Castel wrote.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that Schwartz thought were real, but were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. Schwartz explained that he used the groundbreaking program as he hunted for legal precedents supporting a client's case against the Colombian airline Avianca for an injury incurred on a 2019 flight.

Sam Altman, the CEO of artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, told a Senate panel he welcomes federal regulation on the technology'to mitigate' its risks. A stranger in a coffee shop can watch you and learn virtually everything about you, where you've been and even predict your movements "with greater ease and precision than ever before," experts say. All the user would need is a photo and advanced artificial intelligence technology that already exists, said Kevin Baragona, a founder of DeepAI.org. "There are services online that can use a photo of you, and I can find everything. Every instance of your face on the internet, every place you've been and use that for stalker-type purposes," Baragona told Fox News Digital.

Attorney Bryan Rotella said the growing use of AI in legal services will increase efficiency but could threaten the jobs of legal assistants and young lawyers. The rise of artificial intelligence could create a ripple effect across the legal industry, putting law school students out of entry-level jobs before even entering the workforce and stripping them of necessary experience to become good lawyers, an attorney of over 20 years said. "What concerns me is that you're going to have a whole bunch of people coming out of law school with huge loans, which we already know is a crisis, and they're going to be outsourced by this artificial intelligence," Bryan Rotella, attorney and founder of GenCo Legal, told Fox News. "I don't know that anyone's warning them of that." As AI is increasingly incorporated into industries like health care, financial services and the legal field, Rotella said there are many ways this technology can be used to aid professionals.