When Systems Become Weapons: How AI and the Legal Process Can Be Abused for Revenge — and How to Protect Yourself
When Systems Become Weapons: How AI and the Legal Process Can Be Abused for Revenge — and How to Protect Yourself Technology and courts are supposed to protect people. But when bad actors weaponize AI and procedural tools for revenge—coordinated smear campaigns, automated false complaints, deepfakes, or legal filings meant to humiliate—they turn systems of justice into instruments of harm. This piece names the tactics and gives survivors practical, grounded steps to reclaim safety and dignity. What it looks like: coordinated social engineering that uses scraped data to impersonate you, fake legal claims meant to bait or shame, AI-generated audio/video (deepfakes) used to damage reputation, and bots filing spam complaints to platforms or agencies until you’re overwhelmed. The goal is often humiliation, isolation, and erasure—not justice. Spot the red flags: sudden waves of identical complaints; emails from odd addresses citing legal-sounding forms; video/audio clips that don’t match yo...