In ten years time an LLM lawyer will lose a legal case for someone who can no longer afford a real lawyer because there are so few left. And it'll be because th

In ten years time an LLM lawyer will lose a legal case for someone who can no longer afford a real lawyer because there are so few left. And it'll be because the layers of bodges in the model caused it to go crazy, insult the judge and threaten to burn down the courthouse. There will be a series of analytical articles in the mainstream press, the tech industry will write it off as a known problem with tokenisation that they can't fix because nobody really writes code anymore. The LLM megacorp will just add a disclaimer: the software should not be used in legal actions concerning fruit companies and they disclaim all losses.