{"id":255586,"date":"2026-05-26T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/random-people-armed-with-ai-and-no-lawyer-are-reportedly-filling-judicial-dockets-with-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:50:19","slug":"random-people-armed-with-ai-and-no-lawyer-are-reportedly-filling-judicial-dockets-with-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/random-people-armed-with-ai-and-no-lawyer-are-reportedly-filling-judicial-dockets-with-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Random People Armed with AI and No Lawyer Are Reportedly Filling Judicial Dockets with Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Random People Armed with AI and No Lawyer Are Reportedly Filling Judicial Dockets with Lawsuits<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-26 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t play innocent. If you\u2019re a non-lawyer in the 2020s, you\u2019ve at least had the passing thought that you could use an LLM to help you generate a killer lawsuit against someone who pissed you off.<\/p>\n

Or at least now I know it\u2019s not just me.<\/p>\n

Thanks to AI, plaintiffs representing themselves, also known as \u201cpro se\u201d plaintiffs, are changing the legal landscape for the worse, according to a new study by MIT\u2019s Anand Shah and USC\u2019s Joshua Levy, reported on by the New York Times on Monday. The study has not yet been peer reviewed.<\/p>\n

It says that since the rollout of widely available LLMs, 18 percent of pro se filings now contain what the authors have deemed AI-generated text. Perhaps consequently, \u201cthe total volume of pro se docket entries per court in the first 180 days of a case has grown by 64% on average across the post-AI period,\u201d the study finds.<\/p>\n

Typically, pro se filings come from prisoners working on their cases from behind bars, but the study notes that \u201cnational non-prisoner pro se filing share rose sharply from its approximately 11% historical steady state to 16.8% in fiscal year 2025, a gain that has no precedent in 25 years of administrative records.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Times, pro se plaintiffs lost 96% of their cases from 1998-2017.<\/p>\n

The Times is largely spotlighting frivolous lawsuits generated with AI\u2014and what a waste of time it is for the courts to painstakingly read and process all these slop-filled filings. A Minnesota federal judge named Patrick J. Schiltz, called it \u201can existential threat to the federal courts.\u201d<\/p>\n

To illustrate their point, the Times interviewed a man who uses AI to generate lawsuits. This person gave the paper his name, and allowed himself to be photographed for the story. Courts have alleged some unsavory things about this person, and the Times says he lives in his car. He is, to use one of the president\u2019s favorite terms, straight from central casting\u2014so much so that the Times\u2019 story…<\/p>\n

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