The Legal Record Is Not a Decorative Byproduct of Litigation. It Is Evidence.

A legal transcript is not a convenience product. It is evidence. Evidence requires provenance, certification, and lawful creation. When proceedings are merely recorded and later transcribed by unlicensed individuals, the result is not a court record—it is media. Courts are quietly replacing evidentiary safeguards with technical workflows, downgrading the legal record from authenticated proof to a reconstructive artifact.

Who Trained the Machine?

AutoScript AI is marketed as a “legal-grade” AI transcription solution trained on “millions of hours of verified proceedings,” yet the company provides no public definition of what verification means in a legal context or where that data originated. Founded and led by technology executive Rene Arvin, the platform reflects a broader trend of general ASR tools being rebranded for legal use without the transparency traditionally required in court reporting.