In a revelation that a B.C. Supreme Court judge called “alarming”, a Vancouver lawyer has been ordered to personally compensate her opponent’s law team for wasted time, as cases she submitted in an application were found to be ChatGPT-generated “hallucinations”.
“As this case has unfortunately made clear, generative AI is still no substitute for the professional expertise that the justice system requires of lawyers,” Justice David Masuhara wrote.
The lawyer, Vancouver’s Chang Ke, was battling in court for her multi-millionaire client’s right to bring his children to China. The client, Wei Chen, lives and works in Shanghai. The children are Chinese nationals but live with their mother in West Vancouver. The two were involved in what Masuhara said was a “high conflict” divorce litigation which was settled in China in 2018.
