--- title: "You Ask, I Answer: Using AI For Legal Disputes?" author: "" date: 2026-01-07 url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2026/01/you-ask-i-answer-using-ai-for-legal-disputes/ categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" - "Generative AI" - "Law" - "Videos" tags: - "youtube" --- # You Ask, I Answer: Using AI For Legal Disputes? ## Summary In today's episode, I examine the dangers and potential uses of applying generative AI to legal matters. Here's what this means for you. You can leverage AI for initial research and preparation without accidentally relying on flawed or biased legal information. You'll also learn these concepts: why smarter models produce more deceptive errors, how US-centric data pollutes legal interpretations in other countries, and why AI prioritizes probability over truth. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAT9m6ewf18[/embed] ## Key Takeaways - You'll learn why advanced models produce errors that even experts might struggle to detect - You'll discover how US-centric training data introduces cross-domain pollution into international legal queries - You'll see how to use AI for initial preparation before consulting a human professional ## Full Transcript In today's episode, Bob asks, can AI help me sue someone or handle a legal dispute? Can it? Yes. Should you use it for that? No. There are three domains that generative AI generally can do capable first drafts, but absolutely require human review. Finance, law, and health. Law is one of those three domains that generative AI, it's not that it gets it necessarily just flat out wrong. It is that in a lot of cases, people using it in those domains do not have the subject matter expertise to know when AI is getting something wrong. That's the critical part. Something that Ethan Mollick of Wharton Business School said a couple of years ago now is that as AI models get smarter, they make smarter mistakes. They get they make mistakes that are harder to detect that require more subject matter expertise. It's kind of like an image generation, right? A couple years ago, two or three years ago, generative AI was making images with people like nine fingers on one hand and stuff like that. Very, very obvious mistakes that were clearly wrong and easy to spot. Today, with models like Flux 2 or Nano Banana Pro, uh you now have pretty good results. Pretty good results, and the mistakes it's making are hard to detect. So if you said, you know, make me an image of an early Sunday morning on Rue de la Pionie in uh Paris, and the the model would come up with more or less the correct architecture, more or less the correct uh feeling, and it would require subject matter expertise of that certainly of Paris in general, and maybe even of that street, to know that what was being created had inaccuracies. This is something that in finance law and health is the is the dividing line between you know a boring mistake and a critical mistake when the model can no longer um when you can't tell, like, okay, that's clearly wrong. There are there are certainly things that AI does, particularly in the field of law and legal stuff that are are clearly wrong, like you know, citing cases that do not exist, right? Setting precedents that do not exist, making up uh citations, making up legal principles. As models get smarter, particularly those that have access to web search tools, they do that less, but their interpretations of the law may not be correct. Or in a lot of cases, you may get end up with cross-domain pollution. And what I mean by that is a lot of text online, particularly English language text, is biased heavily towards uh the United States of America. Uh, companies are based here, and a lot of text is based um is generated here. Here is where in the United States is where a lot of websites early on started, and a lot of companies have published content under within the United States domain. What that means is that there are biases. There are clear biases in the text itself. That if you're doing something like law, you and you're doing, say, UK law or Australian law or law in any nation that happens to be using the English language but is not uh the United States jurisdiction, you're getting cross pollution. A concept that exists in American law may be different in UK law, maybe different in Irish law. Yes, you're still using English, but remember that AI doesn't understand truth. AI understands probability. So that concept, maybe something like copyright, um the words and the probabilities in the model are going to be weighted more heavily towards what was in the training data. So can you use AI to help you sue someone or to do a legal dispute? You can. Should you, not without a human expert. You can certainly have an initial conversation with AI to say, like, hey, here's what's going on, here's my jurisdiction, here's where I live, what basis might I even have, and then have it go find your lawyer in your jurisdiction and bring the conversation that you've had with AI to that lawyer and say, here is the thing that I would like to do. Is this practical? Is this reasonable? Is this something that you could help me litigate? And that human legal expert will then be able to help you do the dispute or press the lawsuit. What I would absolutely not do is show up in court with Chat GPT on your phone and attempt to win a case on your own. That is not going to go well for you, right? You are not going to have a good time with that because there's a very good chance, assuming that you are just thrown out of the courtroom immediately, that it's going to make one or more mistakes that are not obviously catastrophic on the surface, but a skilled legal counsel will use against you. And you will you will have uh you will not have much recourse uh there. So don't do it as a substitute for human expertise. Do it as a first draft um prior to your consultation with a real expert. Thanks for the question. I'll talk to you on the next one. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button. 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