Extract from Christopher Niesche’s article “Courts Being Flooded by Wordy AI-Generated Documents, Report Finds”
Courts around the world are being flooded by documents generated by artificial intelligence, a study of AI case law in ten countries concludes.
The University of New South Wales Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession examined 540 cases where generative artificial intelligence had been in legal proceedings between 2023 and 2025.
“What began as a trickle—just a few recorded cases every other month during 2023 —became a steady stream across 2024 and 2025,” states the Australian report, GenAI, FakeLaw & Fallout.
The U.S. had the highest number of cases where Gen AI was used with 319, followed by Australia with 87.
The research revealed common problems across jurisdictions, including prolix documentation, and ‘flooding’.
