The ChatGPT Plaintiff Is Becoming a PEO Problem
You may have heard about the rise of the “ChatGPT plaintiff,” the pro se litigant who decides to sue their employer without an attorney to assist them, believing that generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or CoPilot are enough to get them where they want to go. They are filing more employment lawsuits, drafting motions and discovery requests faster, and doing so with a level of sophistication that would have been unimaginable five years ago. What do PEOs need to know about this latest litigation trend, and what can you do to protect your organization and your clients? The Numbers Are Hard to Ignore Pro se employment lawsuit filings increased 49% last year (from roughly 4,100 to 6,400 cases nationally), whereas attorney-led workplace law filings only grew by 15%. Fisher Phillips attorneys handling these cases say AI is a primary driver of the pro se explosion. Tools like ChatGPT allow unrepresented plaintiffs to generate professional-looking pleadings in mi...