AI will not help: for legal advice – only to a lawyer

The developer company OpenAI has limited the ability of ChatGPT to provide users with personalized legal and medical advice. Lawyers at DE-JURE welcome this decision, but not at all because we are afraid that artificial intelligence will take away our work.

Previously, there were warnings that dialogues with ChatGPT do not fall under medical or lawyer confidentiality, which carries great legal risks – in particular, your request to AI may become evidence in court. The developer believes that the users themselves are directly responsible for interaction with AI.

As noted by lawyer and specialist in judicial practice Alina Kulava, AI’s answers to the same question, formulated in other words, can be diametrically opposed: this is due to the fact that it tries to generate an answer by looking for exactly the same combination of words as in the request. The issue of expertise and reliability is not taken into account: AI can pull an answer from a doctoral dissertation of a well-known specialist or from a student forum. It also happens that it does not find a similar combination of words in open sources and, probably, “thinks up” the answer on its own. It often happens that AI generates documents with references to outdated legal norms or even non-existent judicial practice.

This is the key difference between artificial intelligence and a professional lawyer. For a specialist who values ​​his reputation, client issues are an area of ​​professional responsibility, based on constant training and many years of practical experience.

Do you have any questions? Contact “DE-JURE” – we have both specialists and experience in all major areas of law.