The Supreme Court has sounded the alarm on a worrying trend of overreliance on artificial intelligence (AI) to provide deep analysis and insight on legal matters, which resulted in the extraordinary situation of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) making a decision two years ago based on fake precedents. To make matters worse, the Appellate Tribunal cemented the gross errors through its own decision. Both orders were inevitably set aside by the apex court when the hallucinated precedents generated by AI were exposed. Use of such imagined court orders was, in the court’s view, similar to the release of methyl isocyanate (the Bhopal gas), which is invisible, invidious, and catastrophic, into the realm of law and........

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