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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Josh Marcus

The new public defender: Some are turning to ChatGPT to offer legal advice and win small claims cases

There has been an explosion of people turning to artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity for legal advice in recent years, with litigants in some cases ditching human lawyers altogether in favor of AI.

“It was like having God up there responding to my questions,” Lynn White, who used both tools in an eviction case in Long Beach, California, told NBC News.

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