I know a lawyer who almost took a job in state government where one of the primary duties was to make sure that the punctuation in the bills going through the state legislature were correct and accurate. For her, part of the appeal of the job, was that it would allow her to subtly alter the meaning of a bill being presented. Apparently it is a non trivial skill to be able to determine how judges are likely to rule on cases due to say, the presence, or the absence of an oxford comma.

There was an entire team dedicated to this work, and the hours were insane when the legislature was in session. She ended up not taking the job because of the downsides associated with moving to the capital, so I don't know more about the job. I'd be curious how much AI has changed what that team does now. Certainly, they still would want to meticulously look at every character, but it is certainly possible that AI has gotten better at analyzing the "average" ruling, which might make the job a little easier. What I know about law though, is that it's often defined by the non average ruling, that there's sort of a fractal nature to it, and it's the unusual cases that often forever shape future interpretations of a given law. Unusual scenarios are something that LLMs generally struggle with, and add to that the need to creatively come up with scenarios that might further distort the bill, and I'd expect LLMs to be patently bad at creating laws. So while, I have no doubt that legislators (and lobbyists) are using AI to draft bills, I am positive that there is still a lot of work that goes into refining bills, and we're probably not seeing straight vibe drafting.

Here's a fairly recent example of a $5M lawsuit that hinged on the interpretation of an Oxford comma in a Maine law about overtime pay: https://www.fedbar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Commentary...