AFP on November 14 reported that Brazilian authorities are investigating a federal judge accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create ChatGPT to make a wrong judgment leftover.
Brazil’s National Judicial Council (CNJ), the body that oversees the country’s courts, summoned judge Jefferson Rodrigues to explain why he announced a ruling that contained many legal errors due to AI tools Online ChatGPT launched.
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Mr. Rodrigues is a judge in the state of Acre who has given inaccurate details about previous trials and legal precedents in his rulings and also falsely cited previous decisions as those of public courts. senior attorney, according to case files.
Mr. Rodrigues admitted to CNJ that he had Use ChatGPT as a “trusted advisor”. Rodrigues called the incident a “simple mistake”, blaming the “work overload that judges face”.
CNJ believes that this is the first case in Brazil when a judge ruled that there were errors due to the use of AI. The agency gave Mr. Rodrigues 15 days to explain further. CNJ admits that more and more judges are using AI, while Brazil does not have a law on the use of this tool.
ChatGPT is an AI application developed by startup OpenAI, trained to give answers like a conversation with a real person. The application caused a global sensation in December 2022 with more than one million people registering in just one week. ChatGPT currently has more than 100 million users, the website receives nearly 1.5 billion visits each month.