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Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns | TechCrunch

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The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work.

In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research” That doesn’t mean lawyers cannot use AI in their research, but she said they have a professional duty “to check the accuracy of such research by reference to authoritative sources”.

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