Should lawyers use ChatGPT in court proceedings?

ChatGPT's skyrocketing popularity presents both promising opportunities and significant risks for lawyers, as its capabilities continue to evolve, raising questions about its impact on the legal profession and ethical considerations.

It has also hit the headlines due to lawyers utilising the bot to generate cases which they could use for court filings – which turned out to be fake.

ChatGPT (which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence ('AI') tool. It is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.

Such chatbots are guided by the prompts you provide and draw upon a vast amount of information as well as contextual cues to provide an answer.