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AI in the courtroom: the dangers of using ChatGTP in legal practice in South Africa

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par Jacques Matthee, Senior Lecturer, University of the Free State
Grey Stopforth, Lecturer in Department of Mercantile Law at the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State

A South African court case made headlines for all the wrong reasons in January 2025. The legal team in Mavundla v MEC: Department of Co-Operative Government and Traditional Affairs KwaZulu-Natal and Others had relied on case law that simply didn’t exist. It had been generated by ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI.

Only two of the nine case authorities the legal team submitted to the…

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