Magistrate rebukes lawyers over ChatGPT 'bogus cases'
Magistrate says courts expect lawyers “not to merely repeat in parrot-fashion, the unverified research of a chatbot”
09 July 2023 - 00:01
Lawyers acting for a woman who claimed she was defamed by a body corporate in Parkwood, Johannesburg, were left red-faced when it emerged they tried to use non-existent judgments generated by ChatGPT to bolster her case. ..
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