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

By Franny Rabkin

A woman suing a body corporate for defamation was slapped with a punitive costs order and her lawyers left red-faced after it emerged in court that they had tried to use non-existent judgments generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT to bolster her case.

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