This appears to be the first instance of a legal decision being made with the aid of an AI text generator, as a judge in Colombia, the US used ChatGPT to issue a court decision. This case showed a disagreement with a health insurance provider over whether or not a child with autism should be covered for medical care.
According to a court record dated January 30, 2023, Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia, WHO Presiding over the First Circuit Court in the city of Cartagena, it claimed that it used an AI tool to raise legal questions related to the case and incorporated its responses into its ruling.
These AI-generated texts are not intended to take the place of a judge’s decision in any way. Judge Garcia said the goal is to reduce the time needed to make a decision after verifying data provided by the AI.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used to determine the appropriateness of this choice. Therefore, the court asked a part of the legal questions raised in such proceedings, he said.
The use of AI in court decisions is not prohibited by Colombian law, but programs like ChatGPT are notorious for providing responses that are either biased, discriminatory, or just plain wrong. This is because the language model synthesizes words probabilistically from the millions of examples used to train the system, rather than actually understanding the text.
Legal questions filed in ChatGPT included whether a minor with autism was exempt from paying for their treatment and Constitutional Court precedent resulting in favorable decisions in such cases.
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Judge Garcia broke new ground by explicitly admitting to using the chatbot’s full responses in the decision. The judge added his comments on relevant legal precedents.
He claimed that ChatGPT was used to further the case for the chosen course of action. The judge first describes interactions with the AI, before adopting its answers and his own legal justifications as the basis for his decision.
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-parent OpenAI, previously said, “ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a deceptive impression of greatness.” How authentic was the chatbot’s response.
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