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yonaguskatoday at 10:34 AM0 repliesview on HN

This is exactly what it is. I know someone that's essentially representing themselves in family court. They had attorneys but the attorneys are basically useless for you if the opposition has more money and can spam you with motions that they are using AI to generate. which you then need to pay a lawyer to respond to. They since began representing themselves due to lack of money, and lawyer incompetence, and actually started to shut down the opposition... then the judge threatened contempt of court and jail time during one hearing if they chose to continue to make a statement and not accept a court appointed attorney to speak for them. Family court in the US is an absolute farce. The same judge recently started asking about "chatGPT" and mentioning that anything there would need to be disclosed to the courts. The person I know was primarily using their own local machine and models, however.