Do-It-Yourself Lawsuits Aided by AI Are Clogging US Courts

On its face, the order from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in December looked like all the other routine denials that members of the Supreme Court hand down regularly on long-shot, emergency motions. But in giving Amr Abouelmagd a win over his ex-wife in a cross-border, child-custody lawsuit, Sotomayor also indirectly validated the legal adviser that helped build his case: ChatGPT.

Abouelmagd and his ex-wife took their case from a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, all the way to the Supreme Court without lawyers. Abouelmagd relied on advice from friends, court clerks and, to help him write his many motions, objections ...