ChatGPT Coming to Court, by Way of Self-Represented Litigants

Eugene Volokh

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5.27.2023 2:27 PM

I posted earlier today about a lawyer’s filing unchecked ChatGPT-generated material, complete with hallucinated cases. But even if lawyers manage to avoid that, I’m sure that many self-represented litigants will be using ChatGPT, Bard, and the like, and won’t know to properly check the results.

Indeed, a quick CourtListener search pointed out three self-represented filings (1, 2, 3) that expressly noted that they were relying on ChatGPT. That suggests that there are…