OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it gave unauthorised legal advice, arguing that its generative artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT is not a lawyer and does not practice law.<\/p>\n
In a filing on Friday in federal court in Chicago, OpenAI said there were no grounds to support a lawsuit by Nippon Life Insurance Company claiming ChatGPT helped a disability plaintiff breach a settlement while flooding a federal court docket with meritless filings.<\/p>\n
“ChatGPT is not a person and neither has nor uses any degree of legal knowledge or skill,” OpenAI said in its filing.<\/p>\n
The case comes as more self-represented litigants are using generative AI tools to draft and file court papers, a trend federal judges say is on the rise. Nippon’s lawsuit is among the first to accuse a major AI platform of engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.<\/p>\n
OpenAI and a lawyer for Nippon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The insurer’s lawsuit stems from a dispute with a former employee, Graciela Dela Torre, who had previously sued Nippon over long-term disability benefits. Dela Torre settled the case in 2024.<\/p>\n
Nippon said in its lawsuit that Dela Torre filed a new case and used ChatGPT to inundate the court with dozens of AI-drafted motions and notices that the company contends served “no legitimate legal or procedural purpose.”<\/p>\n
OpenAI countered that “Nippon\u2019s apparent frustration with having to defend a pro se lawsuit is no basis to hold OpenAI liable.”<\/p>\n
OpenAI described ChatGPT as “a helpful tool and research aid that advances access to justice in courts” and said users agree not to rely on its content as a substitute for professional advice.<\/p>\n
“Dela Torre was entitled to represent herself against Nippon and was entitled to use ChatGPT as a tool to do so,” OpenAI told the court. “Whether she made appropriate arguments is a question of her actions, and was for the district court judge presiding over her cases to decide.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it gave unauthorised legal advice, arguing that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-455982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}