Angry Workers Use AI to Bombard Businesses With Employment Lawsuits

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Telegraph:

Workers with an axe to grind against their employer are using AI to bombard businesses with costly and inaccurate lawsuits, experts have warned.

Frustration is growing among employment lawyers who say they are seeing a trend of litigants using AI to help them run their claims, which they say is generating 'inconsistent, lengthy, and often incorrect arguments' and causing a spike in legal fees... Ailie Murray, an employment partner at law firm Travers Smith, said AI submissions are produced so rapidly that they are 'often excessively lengthy and full of inconsistencies', but employers must then spend vast amounts of money responding to them. She added: 'In many cases, the AI-generated output is inaccurate, leading to claimants pleading invalid claims or arguments.

'It is not an option for an employer to simply ignore such submissions. This leads to a cycle of continuous and costly correspondence. Such dynamics could overburden already stretched tribunals with unfounded and poorly pleaded claims.'

There's definitely been a 'significant increase' in the number of clients using AI,
James Hockin, an employment partner at Withers, told the Telegraph. The danger? 'There is a risk that we see unrepresented individuals pursuing the wrong claims in the UK employment tribunal off the back of a duff result from an AI tool.'

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