
Citizens who consult artificial intelligence chat bots such as ChatGPT to avoid legal fees are in a difficult situation in the courts.
US citizens who consult artificial intelligence chatbots to avoid paying attorney fees in divorce and custody cases face major financial and legal damages in the courts due to fake precedent decisions and false petitions.
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Citizens use artificial intelligence tools in legal processes to avoid high attorney fees.
Those who do not want to pay thousands of dollars in legal fees to separate from their spouses or gain custody of their children consult artificial intelligence chat applications on the internet, causing an unprecedented chaos in courthouses.
Algorithms that list articles of law and promise the user the justification they want to hear do not match the facts when they enter the courtroom.
Due to petitions prepared by programs that accept one-sided narratives as true, citizens are caught with fake precedent decisions before judges, apply to unauthorized courts, and pay twice the cost of advice they thought was free.
Legal experts point out that at the end of a marriage, both parties tell the events differently, and artificial intelligence cannot see the evidence or financial expenses of the other party.
INSTEAD OF GOING TO A LAWYER, BOTA PAID 20 DOLLARS AND WRITTEN A PETITION
According to the Wall Street Journal newspaper, Logan Burns, a 35-year-old clergyman and roofing material salesman living in the US state of Georgia, entered into a custody battle after his children were taken to Montana when he came to the separation stage with his wife.
After a lawyer in Montana asked for $7,000 to take on the case, Burns subscribed to ChatGPT for $19.99 per month.
Thinking that the bot was guiding him like a lawyer, Burns took immediate action when he saw on the screen a general rule of law stating that a lawsuit cannot be filed in the state where the child stayed for less than six months.
Arguing that the court in Montana had no jurisdiction by writing a letter under the guidance of artificial intelligence, Burns directly told the judge at the hearing, "Technically, you do not have jurisdiction." he said.
Faced with the judge's harsh reaction, Burns learned in the courtroom that the court could step in immediately in emergency situations and that he had personally made this urgent application.
Burns, who had to apologize to the judge, said about his experiences: "Your Honor, I do not accuse you of anything. ChatGPT gave me basic information. However, it does not offer an interpretation of the law." He explained it with his words.
The owner of a company selling health products over the internet also became a victim of artificial intelligence.
The businessman, who agreed to pay a high amount of alimony to his ex-wife during the divorce, consulted artificial intelligence to reduce the payment when his business broke down.
Bot told the man who said his income had dropped that he would win the case very easily and the alimony would be reduced immediately.
Los Angeles family lawyer Hossein Berenji stated that the chatbot did not look at his client's company books or his personal expenses, which he did not cut at all, but only considered his verbal statement as fact. The man who trusted the bot convinced his first lawyer of this strategy and filed a lawsuit.
However, the ex-wife's lawyer presented the same company records to the court and proved that the income did not actually decrease, and the judge rejected the case.
A forensic accountant was hired for the businessman who blamed his first lawyer and moved to Berenji's office.
Although the company's sales appeared high, it was only a two-year investigation and the efforts of a second law firm that proved that the goods in the warehouse were spoiled and there was no profit left.
Although the judge temporarily stopped the alimony, Berenji emphasized that the money his client paid to the first lawyer was completely wasted and he had to pay extra alimony for two years.

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