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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): towards a promising LLM architecture for legal work?
By Peter Johnston - Edited by Kusuma Raditya and Pantho Sayed
Posted on April 02, 2025
The above image is sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)’s first encounter with the legal world was a catastrophe. After OpenAI released ChatGPT in Fall 2022 and the chatbot became the fastest adopted app in history, users all too quickly applied the chatbot to legal tasks for which it was poorly suited. Just six months after its launch, attorney Steven A. Schwartz filed a brief full of synthesized, hallucinated cases by ChatGPT. Schwartz later faced judicial sanctions for that filing. Chief Justice John Roberts even alluded to the incident in his 2023 report on the federal judiciary, calling the habit of submitting briefs citing non-existent cases “always a bad idea.” Yet Schwartz’s highly publicized castigation and Chief Justice...
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