The article investigates the potential of generative AI as a rhetorical machine in human rights-based adjudication. It argues that the persuasive effects of AI-generated language make it especially suited to intervene in legal frameworks marked by indeterminacy, such as proportionality analysis and balancing. The article then explores the potential of out-of-court dispute settlement under the European Union’s Digital Services Act as a venue for human rights-based adjudication and a laboratory for testing human-machine collaboration protocols, finding that AI might play a limited but consequential role in that context.