As resources for dealing with AI in legal settings emerge, so too do court decisions dealing with it as evidence

The Canadian legal world has slowly but surely begun various efforts to figure out, react to and (in appropriate circumstances) embrace the many issues raised by the onslaught of “artificial intelligence” (AI) and specifically one of its main manifestations, “generative artificial intelligence” (GenAI). GenAI, as is well known, is the subset of AI that creates content (text, images, sounds), its capacity for which is generated by “training” on large sets of data (the latter has been gained primarily from internet scraping, which has generated numerous intellectual property issues and at least one federal government consultation report). In law as in many sectors, much attention has been focused on “large language models” (LLMs), GenAI platforms that produce text and images in response to user prompts, and are designed to mimic human behaviour and/or tasks.

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