Technology
Oct. 30, 2025
ChatGPT is giving legal advice and getting it catastrophically wrong
ChatGPT gave wrong legal advice in five of six tests using real California cases, contradicted itself based on who asked, and illegally practiced law by offering to draft legal documents--raising urgent calls for regulation.
A California Court of Appeal case, Noland v. Land of the Free, L.P. et al., sanctioned an attorney in September for submitting an appellate brief and reply brief that contained fabricated quotes and citations to cases that do not exist. The attorney used generative artificial intelligence to draft the briefs. Numerous attorneys across the country have found themselves in legal hot water for relying upon AI for law-and-motion practice. As a federal judge in Virgini...
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