Hallucinations, Drift, and Privilege: Three Comic Lessons in Using AI for Law
Image: Ralph Losey with AI. [ EDRM Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to publish Ralph Losey’s advocacy and analysis. The opinions and positions are Ralph Losey’s copyrighted work. All images in the article are by Ralph Losey using AI. This article is published here with permission.] Artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to necessity in law. It now drafts briefs, reviews discovery, and even suggests courtroom arguments. But most lawyers still struggle to use it wisely. Instead of another citation-heavy lecture or dour ethics outline, I’ve chosen a different method: comedy. These three skits are not abstract hypotheticals—they’re exaggerated but recognizable scenes where a lawyer leans on a “helpful” robot and things start to wobble. Robot Laurel and human Hardy telling jokes. All images and videos by Ralph Losey using AI. Click for YouTube video. Here’s the twist: the comedy wasn’t mine. It came from GPT-5, the latest large language model whose humor engine is far better than i...