针对日本生命保险公司员工使用ChatGPT大量生成法庭文件而引发的诉讼,OpenAI请求法院驳回。原告指控ChatGPT越界成为“无证法律执业者”。OpenAI辩护称,ChatGPT仅是软件工具,用户要求其起草文件不等于“执业”。案件核心在于AI辅助自我代理时责任如何界定。OpenAI主张责任在于用户和法庭监督。该事件反映了生成式AI在法庭文件撰写中的应用,既降低了参与门槛,也带来了程序混乱等新挑战。
Reuters: OpenAI has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit claiming ChatGPT crossed the line from software into unlicensed legal practice.
Nippon Life says a former employee used ChatGPT to produce a flood of court filings after settling a disability-benefits dispute, and argues OpenAI helped drive filings with no real legal purpose.
OpenAI's defense: ChatGPT is not a person, has no law license, and does not "practice law" just because a user asks it to draft arguments, motions, or research notes.
The deeper issue is where responsibility sits when an AI helps a self-represented person create legal documents that may be weak, repetitive, or procedurally wrong.