<story><title>Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare</title><url>https://hbr.org/2024/10/gen-ai-makes-legal-action-cheap-and-companies-need-to-prepare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>If suing became an ultra-easy one-click activity, I can see two things coming: 1. maybe that would force us to shape up our tort laws a little so that not everything under the sun was actionable and 2. maybe people and companies would stop misbehaving so much because they knew there was no longer a burden to suing them. A combination of 1 and 2 sound like a great outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>I’ve been unlucky enough to have good reason to sue a few times in the last few years.&lt;p&gt;The courts are essentially inaccessible to 99% of the population.   You can go to small claims court where the limit for damages is $12,500 in California (less than a half year’s rent around here), or you can hire a lawyer and pay $50-100K minimum before the trial even starts (on both sides).&lt;p&gt;The upshot is that I’m out around $100K (spread across a few different incidents) with absolutely no legal recourse.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, more access to the courts (and faster&amp;#x2F;more painful rejection of nuisance suits) would go a long way to fixing our legal system.&lt;p&gt;It would also be good if private individuals could directly press criminal charges.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare</title><url>https://hbr.org/2024/10/gen-ai-makes-legal-action-cheap-and-companies-need-to-prepare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>If suing became an ultra-easy one-click activity, I can see two things coming: 1. maybe that would force us to shape up our tort laws a little so that not everything under the sun was actionable and 2. maybe people and companies would stop misbehaving so much because they knew there was no longer a burden to suing them. A combination of 1 and 2 sound like a great outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dartos</author><text>&amp;gt; everything under the sun was actionable&lt;p&gt;Not everything (in the US at least) is actionable, but you still need someone to review each suit and determine whether or not to throw it out.</text></comment>