Now here’s a legal-drama-worthy twist in the recent spate of dumb lawyers getting caught using AI: it turns out that the very bar exam administered to aspiring attorneys in California was itself created with the help of a large language model, The Los Angeles Times reports. The admission was made by the State Bar of California on Monday, following complaints about the quality of the test’s questions, and numerous glitches experienced by test-takers when they took it in February. In a news release, the organization said that 23 of the exam’s total of 171 scored multiple-choice questions were drafted by the firm ACS Ventures, which developed the questions “with the assistance of AI.” Another 48 questions were lifted from an older version of an exam for first-year law students. “The debacle that was the February 2025 bar exam is worse than we imagined,” Mary Basick, assistant dean of academic skills at UC Irvine Law School, told the LA Times. “I’m almost speechless. Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial intelligence is just unbelievable.” Katie Moran, an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, called it a “staggering admission.” The same company that used AI to draft the questions was then paid “to assess and ultimately approve of the questions on the exam, including the questions the company authored,” she noted to the newspaper. For weeks, test takers had complained that they were randomly kicked off the online platform that the bar was administered on, while…California Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by Problems