Never Trust AI or ChatGPT for Your Divorce or Family Law Case!
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06 Jun Never Trust AI or ChatGPT for Your Divorce or Family Law Case!

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Here’s an interesting story about using ChaptGPT for anything legal, and why you should never, ever, ever trust AI for your divorce or family law case.

I was at home last week, and it was later and I didn’t feel like logging into my legal research account to check on an issue that crossed my mind in one of my cases. So, I had the ChatGPT app on my phone and decided to ask it a very specific legal question. I even made sure to tell it that it pertained to Florida law. I figured I would try it out.

To my amazement, ChapGPT responded with a very thorough answer in a second or two. ChatPGT even cited to a Florida case, giving me the name of the case and the citation. The “citation” is the reporter number. You’ve seen the TV shows where the DA has a big library of law books? Well, that’s how it used to be and those books were numbered by volume and page. Now, it is all digital but the appellate cases are still numbered by volume and page so attorneys and judges can look them up and reference them.

Here is the case that ChatGPT cited to me, and what it said about it:

“The case Horne v. International Harvester Co., 402 So. 2d 1362 (Fla. 1981) is a significant Florida Supreme Court decision that addresses the enforceability of settlement agreements, particularly in the context of fraud in the inducement.”

She went on from there, giving me all these details about the Horne v. International Harvester Co. case.

But guess what?

There is no such case as “Horne v. International Harvester Co.” And the citation (402 So. 2d 1362 (Fla. 1981)) is made up, too!

ChatGPT made up a case that did not exist. I’m not talking about AI made a typo or something. No. The case is totally made up. Fake. If I tried to use that in court, I’d get in big trouble.

How did I know it was made up? I logged into my real legal research software the next day at the office, and quickly found out it didn’t exist.

Don’t trust anything as important as your family law case to AI or ChatGPT.

Don’t trust any lawyer who relies on AI rather than doing their own research the right way.

It has been reported in the news that even some of the biggest law firms, such as Morgan and Morgan, have had lawyers sanctioned by the Court for filing motions that cite to nonexistant cases: “Lawyers from plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan have been sanctioned for a motion that cited eight nonexistent cases, at least some of which were apparently generated by artificial intelligence.” https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/no-42-law-firm-by-headcount-could-face-sanctions-over-fake-case-citations-generated-by-chatgpt

At our firm, we do things the right way. We check. We double check. We don’t cut corners. And that’s how we help to win your case.

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