The cases would have provided compelling precedent for a divorced dad to take his children to China — had they been real.
But instead of savouring courtroom victory, the Vancouver lawyer for a millionaire embroiled in an acrimonious split has been told to personally compensate her client’s ex-wife’s lawyers for the time it took them to learn the cases she hoped to cite were conjured up by ChatGPT.
In a decision released Monday, a B.C. Supreme Court judge reprimanded lawyer Chong Ke for including two AI “hallucinations” in an application filed last December.
The cases never made it into Ke’s arguments; they were withdrawn once she learned they were non-existent.
Justice David Masuhara said he didn’t think the lawyer intended to deceive the court — but he was troubled all the same.
“As this case has unfortunately made clear, generative AI is still no substitute for the professional expertise
