{"id":903850,"date":"2026-09-24T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903850\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:04:13","slug":"self-represented-litigants-use-ai-in-queensland-workplace-courts-fuelling-rise-in-fake-citations-and-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903850\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-represented litigants use AI in Queensland workplace courts, fuelling rise in fake citations and AI slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of self-represented litigants has jumped dramatically in Queensland as artificial intelligence boosts people\u2019s confidence to go without legal representation in workplace disputes.<\/p>\n<p>The growing prevalence of AI slop is delaying proceedings and increasing workloads, but those using the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/i-have-14-upcoming-ai-slop-trials-genuine-deterrents-are-only-answer-20260805-p60lj7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT in court<\/a> are getting a slap on the wrist, one legal expert says.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of self-represented litigants has jumped dramatically in Queensland as artificial intelligence boosts people\u2019s confidence to go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-903850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}