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.
Magistrate says courts expect lawyers “not to merely repeat in parrot-fashion, the unverified research of a chatbot”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. ..From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.
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