--- title: "AI Contract Drafting: Further Confirmation That It Recycles Dysfunction" description: Anything AI copy-and-pastes from whatever contracts are out there is bound to be dysfunctional. Here's another example of that. image: https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hubfs/ChatGPT%20NDA.jpg --- # AI Contract Drafting: Further Confirmation That It Recycles Dysfunction 11 May 2025   ![ChatGPT NDA](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ChatGPT%20NDA.jpg?width=902&height=898&name=ChatGPT%20NDA.jpg)   Last week I noticed [this post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/max-van-de-wolde_legaltech-chatgpt-deepresearch-activity-7326121092979253248-x772?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAC4EHIBM4yrrszZpurdm7cqo9bMcrmXT0Q) on LinkedIn touting at some length the benefits of using ChatGPT's "Deep Research" for contract drafting. According to the author, "It’s highly effective for contract drafting and producing other long-form texts." Just one problem: the image accompanying that post (it's the image at the top of this post) shows that the confidentiality agreement created was copy-and-pasted from the dreck that's out there. What makes me say that? Forget about some more subtle points—all that matters for our purposes is that the single recital uses *WHEREAS* and the lead-in uses *NOW, THEREFORE* and includes a traditional recital of consideration. If you include those features in your contracts because they're what you're used to, you're a [copy-and-paste monkey](https://www.adamsdrafting.com/what-is-a-copy-and-paste-monkey/). If you use them because you think they add something, congratulations—you're a legalistic nitwit. Either way, it's inconceivable that anyone who starts a contract that way is going to somehow end up demonstrating that they're a whiz at making contracts clear, concise, and relevant. But aren't those standard elements of mainstream contract drafting? Yes, they certainly are. For example, they feature in the Practical Law template I analyze in [this 2023 blog post](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/i-examined-one-of-practical-laws-contract-templates-so-you-dont-have-to). But in that post, I demonstrate that that template is, well, not good. And more generally, I've built a career out of cataloguing the dysfunction of mainstream contract drafting, with the primary culprit being copy-and-pasting. If you're looking for "fast" or "cheap", then by all means do the copy-and-paste thing, either the old-fashioned way or the AI version. If you want "good", or at least something approaching it, that's a whole different matter. (For more of my takes on AI and contract drafting, see [this 2024 blog post](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/ai-and-contracts-meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss) and this posts it links to.) ## Search our blog ## Categories - [Templates (27)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/templates) - [Adams Contracts (12)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/adams-contracts) - [Process (9)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/process) - [Artificial Intelligence (7)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/artificial-intelligence) - [Technology (7)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/technology) - [Boilerplate (2)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/boilerplate) - [Document Assembly (2)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/document-assembly) - [Blog (1)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/blog) - [Change (1)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/change) - [Confidentiality Agreements (1)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/confidentiality-agreements) - [Ken Adams (1)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/ken-adams) - [Teaching (1)](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/tag/teaching) [See all](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/ai-contract-drafting-further-confirmation-that-it-recycles-dysfunction#) ### Subscribe to Our Newsletter ## Read On [![](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-12-09%20113714.png?width=352&name=Screenshot%202023-12-09%20113714.png) ](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/generative-ai-for-blogging-generative-ai-for-contract-drafting) ### [Generative AI for Blogging, Generative AI for Contract Drafting](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/generative-ai-for-blogging-generative-ai-for-contract-drafting) Let’s consider two use cases for generative artificial intelligence (ChatGPT and the like). [![](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Venn%20Diagram%209%20Mar%202024.jpg?width=352&name=Venn%20Diagram%209%20Mar%202024.jpg) ](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/to-set-the-legaltech-bar-low-focus-only-on-meeting-the-users-needs) ### [To Set the LegalTech Bar Low, Focus Only on Meeting the User’s Needs](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/to-set-the-legaltech-bar-low-focus-only-on-meeting-the-users-needs) Yesterday I noticed [this LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7168868169510539264?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7168868169510539264%29) by Daniel Yim. It begins, “My legal tech/innovation project... [![](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-02-05%20082706.png?width=352&name=Screenshot%202024-02-05%20082706.png) ](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/how-and-why-our-confidentiality-agreement-template-is-a-beast) ### [How and Why Our Confidentiality Agreement Template Is a Beast](https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/how-and-why-our-confidentiality-agreement-template-is-a-beast) So you want to create a confidentiality agreement. You could find endless examples online, but... ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Ken Adams", "url" : "https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/author/ken-adams" }, "dateModified" : "2025-05-11T14:16:25.391Z", "datePublished" : "2025-05-11T01:37:35.000Z", "headline" : "AI Contract Drafting: Further Confirmation That It Recycles Dysfunction", "image" : [ "https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hubfs/ChatGPT%20NDA.jpg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/blog/ai-contract-drafting-further-confirmation-that-it-recycles-dysfunction", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://adamscontracts.legalsifter.com/hubfs/SIFT-Rebrand-2025/logo_color_positive.svg" }, "name" : "LegalSifter, Inc." } } ```