ChatGPT Court Brief Offers Cautionary Tale for Tax Pros, Too

A lawyer’s recent use of ChatGPT to erroneously draft the bulk of a court brief is a cautionary tale for practicing attorneys about the functional limitations of generative artificial intelligence—and not just in the legal tech world. Tax professionals should take note before making a similar mistake.

The lawyer’s blunder, laid bare for all to see, isn’t really an AI-gone-awry story at all—it’s an anecdote for what happens when available technology outpaces widespread technical knowledge in a domain. Large language models speak with conviction but often don’t have the facts to back up their assertions. In that way, they’re quite ...