“The names and citations are fictitious, the facts are fictitious, and the decisions are fictitious,” said a judgment of the Johannesburg regional court, last week.
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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