The Economist, no paywall: “As well as inventing cases, AI chatbots often encourage people to litigate, urge them not to settle and overstate their chances of winning. Antony Sendall, a British employment barrister, says chatbots embolden litigants to bring a host of discrimination claims. “A grievance that would have been a few sentences is now more like 10 to 12 pages,” Mr Sendall complains. Messrs Shah and Levy found that in cases with self-representing litigants in America, the number of documents filed in a case’s first 180 days is 158% higher than in the pre-AI era. AI-fuelled grievances don’t have to end up in court to be a nuisance. Robert Freund, a commercial lawyer in Los Angeles, says that his clients often receive correspondence and documents clearly written by AI from opposing parties acting without lawyers…”