AI is ruining the attorney-client relationship
I work in a small town firm that does pretty much every type of law and since I started here a year ago, we have had multiple clients come in to either consults or just regular meetings, and try to use AI to tell us what to do in some way or another.
Some folks come in with chat gpt generated "agendas" or "courses of action." Some generate reports from all their inputs that tells them what legal action they should file, and they ask us about it. One had AI generate an "overall home health report" with line graphs, bar graphs, candlestick charts, and God knows what else. It was supposed to show us that his marriage was falling apart and he needed to get custody of the children.
When I was in law school, we used AI heavily in legal research and I am all for AI advancing the profession. But it never occurred to me that clients would be trying to tell us how to do our job because an AI chat bot gave them some convincing verbiage with some pin cites sprinkled in. Is anyone else having this issue with clients using AI in an annoying fashion?
We went to school for law and you paid us for law. Let us do our thing man.