Brazilian judge investigated for AI-generated ruling errors
Brazilian authorities are investigating federal judge Jefferson Rodrigues after he published a ruling that contained incorrect legal citations and precedents, which he attributed to the use of AI tool ChatGPT. The National Justice Council summoned the judge to explain the errors, which included wrongly attributing past decisions to the Superior Court of Justice. Rodrigues described the mistakes as a "mere mistake" caused by work overload. This is reported as the first such case in Brazil.
- Date it happened
- 2023-11-13
- Organisation involved
- Federal judiciary of Brazil
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT
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