A few years ago, T-shirts and coffee mugs with the phrase “Please do not confuse your Google search with my law degree,” were making the rounds. What simpler times those were. Thanks to the rapid development and proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that “focuses on creating new content based on patterns learned from data,” a person seeking advice on the internet about a legal issue today has access to far more than websites or articles that include the terms entered in the search. Indeed, a Google search about a legal topic generates an “AI overview,” a product of Google’s GenAI tool, which may summarize applicable law and suggest steps the person might take to address the issue. And a simple prompt entered into the free version of ChatGPT will generate a draft civil complaint, including instructions about where to file the matter. Defendants in criminal cases likewise may utilize GenAI to prepare defense strategy, craft legal arguments, and summarize documents. While on the one hand, such tools may expand access to justice, they also may increase the number of frivolous or unsupported filings and thus may expose unrepresented litigants to risks including monetary sanctions. Such litigants also may unwittingly expose information to their adversaries by using open-source AI tools as a replacement for counsel.