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title: "Appeals court are not using AI to write opinions"
description: "We scanned all Appeals Court opinions since 2022, the year when ChatGPT was released. We found zero opinions written using AI. A small number of opinions quoted from disclosed AI output."
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published_at: "2026-07-19T00:00:00.000Z"
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# Appeals court are not using AI to write opinions

> We scanned all Appeals Court opinions since 2022, the year when ChatGPT was released. We found zero opinions written using AI. A small number of opinions quoted from disclosed AI output.

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## Claim — We scanned all Appeals Court opinions since 2022, the year when ChatGPT was released. We found zero opinions written using AI. A small number of opinions quoted from disclosed AI output.

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> We scanned all Appeals Court opinions since 2022, the year when ChatGPT was released. We found zero opinions written using AI. A small number of opinions quoted from disclosed AI output.

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We scanned all Appeals Court opinions since 2022, the year when ChatGPT was released. We found zero opinions written using AI. A small number of opinions quoted from disclosed AI output.

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