LLMs will likely supercharge the amount of legalese.

Whoever uses the most well-applied legalese gets an edge over their counterparty.

Before, only lawyers could write and interpret legalese.

That meant we landed on an equilibrium where the two sides of a contract balanced out how much legalese to use.

Now LLMs can help interpret or create legalese, even for non-lawyers.

The one-ply implication of this is more people can deploy and navigate legalese.

But the multi-ply implication might be an expansion of legalese.

The benefit doesn't go to one party; it goes to all parties^[ra].

That raises the equilibrium point: a new equilibrium of misery.

A similar phenomena to why tariffs lead to price increases, or why when a highway gets a new lane the average commute doesn't decrease because people move farther out.

Now it means that anyone who doesn't use LLMs in that domain can't possibly keep up.