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   "text": "Integrating multimodal data from legal proceedings, combining text with audio and video such as courtroom transcripts, oral arguments, and visual cues, will make predictive analytics more robust by capturing richer case dynamics.",
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   "text": "Even as LLMs for judicial reasoning become more sophisticated, their inability to replicate empathy and social responsiveness will confine them to supportive rather than decisional functions.",
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   "text": "Advanced artificial judicial intelligence capable of simulating full judicial processes remains speculative, and its feasibility is limited by ethical concerns including bias and accountability rather than by technical capability alone.",
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