Artificial Intelligence may be the hottest two words in business right now and that is as true in law, litigation and discovery as well.  While there may be more hype than substance at the moment, it is clear that the possibilities of using Generative AI in e-discovery to understand your own documents and that of your opponents is tantalizing.

Because your opponent may want to analyze your data using their Generative AI tool, as explained in more detail below, you should consider enhancing your protective orders to ensure such use does not unreasonably expose and unintentionally disseminate your client's confidential information.

Even though the evidence is not yet in that Generative AI currently enhances a party's ability to produce documents by making it faster, cheaper, or more defensible, clients and lawyers need to anticipate that their opponents may use it to analyze documents produced to them in discovery.  In other words, a party should assume that their opponents are feeding the documents the party has produced into a Generative AI tool to analyze the party's production.