Leah Molatseli is a lawyer turned legal tech and innovation consultant published author, and educator helping African legal professionals navigate technology, innovation, AI and operations through education, training, implementation, and thought leadership. She is the Country Liaison – South Africa at Saga where she drives expansion activities into the legal market. She is passionate about how intentional use of legal technology can scale organisational outcomes. Outside of work, Leah loves her 3 boys who give her life and curating island-hopping travel adventures.
Session Overview
Why ChatGPT Is Getting Stupid and How Legal AI Can Get Smarter
As generative AI tools such as ChatGPT become fixtures in legal workflows, their declining accuracy and shallow outputs expose a deeper problem: dependence on systems not designed for legal reasoning. Recent studies link this phenomenon, often called “AI brain rot,” to cognitive stagnation, where both human and machine intelligence weaken through repetitive, low-context interaction.
In this session, Leah Molatseli explores why this decline matters and what the legal industry must do differently. She examines how domain-specific data, localised APIs, and rigorous prompt validation can reverse this trend, building AI systems that do more than generate text but uphold legal precision and accountability. Drawing from her experience at Saga and her own prompting methodology, Leah shares practical steps to create processes that scale accuracy, reliability, and critical engagement.
Attendees will leave with clear insights into the limits of generic AI, the essential role of data-connected legal systems, and scalable validation methods that empower internal champions to sustain AI performance over time.
This session is for legal professionals ready to move beyond experimentation to real adoption, using structured prompting and validation to make AI think contextually, critically, and consistently.
Three Tangible Learnings
1. Understand how generic AI models contribute to declining reasoning quality and why this cognitive drift matters in legal practice.
2. Learn how domain-specific data, localised APIs, and robust prompt validation create smarter, more accurate legal AI.
3. Apply structured prompting and internal champion frameworks to sustain long-term accuracy, consistency, and trust in AI-driven legal workflows.
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Leah Molatseli is a lawyer turned legal tech and innovation consultant published author, and educator helping African legal professionals navigate technology, innovation, AI and operations through education, training, implementation, and thought leadership. She is the Country Liaison – South Africa at Saga where she drives expansion activities into the legal market. She is passionate about how intentional use of legal technology can scale organisational outcomes. Outside of work, Leah loves her 3 boys who give her life and curating island-hopping travel adventures.
