The counteragument in the ChatGPT lawyer debacle is that the AI's summarization of the precedent, being based on a statistical summary of the relevant legal debates, is a purer Hayekian distillation of the common law tradition than any ordinary exercise in legal pedantry. The hallucinated citations are a purer form of the caselaw than any merely existing cases in our sordid sublunar realm could ever aspire to being.