bstract
The advent of artificial intelligence is a stark manifestation of the wizardry and ingenuity of the human race; a silver bullet that has enhanced legal and non-legal academic research for scholars, students, and professionals in a seamless manner. As invaluable as it is in providing hands-on accessible knowledge at the click of a button, comes with it a disruptive effect that has rendered lazy many previously hardworking people in the intellectual realm. This article will briefly examine the dangerous and disruptive effect of this manipulative industry that has failed to recognise and compensate authors for their labour; it will also examine how deceptive it is. It is a known fact that no artificial intelligence tool can provide any information on a prompt without being fed with such information by its manufacturer. The information provided to its users by ChatGPT,1 Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, Midjourney, Google Gemini, and every other generative artificial intelligence tool is not unique or original. This is information extracted from textbooks, academic journals, tokens, and other articles
downloaded from shadow libraries to train AI tools which they do not hold the copyright.