Old Rules, New Tools: N.D. Cal. Applies Traditional TAR Principles to Generative AI Discovery

A Northern District of California court ruled that generative AI document review tools like Relativity's aiR must comply with existing Technology Assisted Review (TAR) standards rather than novel AI-specific frameworks, and that parties may pre-filter documents using search terms before AI analysis without violating discovery obligations.

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