{"id":929669,"date":"2026-10-16T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929669\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:42:09","slug":"legal-fees-increase-as-lawyers-work-to-debunk-artificial-intelligence-generated-material-from-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929669\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal fees increase as lawyers work to debunk artificial intelligence-generated material from clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/jon-adgemis-turns-to-tax-lawyers-to-help-with-ato-dispute-20250829-p5mqwq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In her three decades as a lawyer<\/a>, Tania Waterhouse had never seen anything like it. The case was a straightforward Australian Taxation Office matter. The client \u2013 an ordinary taxpayer. Waterhouse did the work and, as a standard courtesy, sent the client a draft of her advice.<\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse couldn\u2019t believe what the client sent back, late on a Sunday night. \u201cA million questions. Flowcharts everywhere. He was seeking a second opinion from a bot. I was so offended by it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her three decades as a lawyer, Tania Waterhouse had never seen anything like it. The case was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-929669","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\/929669","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=929669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}