Today, I was reviewing a recent decision from the Seventh Circuit: Jacoby v. Idlewild Country Club, No. 25-1608 (7th Cir. Oct. 2, 2026) (nonprecedential disposition), CA7 here and TN here, and added it to a footnote in the § 7434 discussion in my working draft for the 2027 edition (to be published in early August 2027). Since I am trying to develop some skills in AI (even though I have not mastered my own intelligence, if any), I decided to use the § 7434 discussion with revisions to date to test what AI has to offer. I used ChatGPT Plus (a paid version). The results offered may be viewed here. I then took the version as ChatGPT rewrote it, pasted it into WordPerfect (my word processor of choice because I am an old lawyer who has not learned MS tricks), and then refined ChatGPT Plus’s offering. So, the files relevant to this exercise are:
- The version ChatGPT Plus offered (with the proposed footnotes as endnotes). Here. This version has 6,079 words (per WP word count).
- My changes to the ChatGPT Plus that I have not decided whether to replace in the 2027 edition. Here. This version has 6,757 words (per WP word count).
I think each version has the same information as presented
in the original from the 2027 working draft (¶ 1).
I would appreciate those having the interest to give me feedback as to which versions are better and more specifically if the two revised versions (¶ 2 and 3 above) are better in the sense of how they better convey the information in the original version (¶ 1) and are worth the additional words to convey the information.
