Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot act as a replacement for human intelligence in the adjudicatory procedure, the Delhi High Court affirmed recently. It added that tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT cannot be the foundation of adjudication of legal matters in courts, according to news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).
Justice Prathiba M Singh said that AI-generated content's reliability and accuracy are still in the grey spots. And the data cannot be used beyond preliminary research and understanding of legal issues.
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The remarks came during the hearing of a case by Christian Louboutin, a luxury label, against a firm that was engaged in the production and sale of footwear in breach of the company's trademark policies. The plaintiff's counsel iterated that "Red Sole Shoe" was the trademark of Christian Louboutin in India and submitted responses by viral chatbot model ChatGPT concerning its "reputation".
The court said the tool in question "cannot be the basis of adjudication of legal or factual issues". These Large Language Models (LLMs) responses rely on a number of factors such as the structure and nature of the input and the data used in the training, the court added. "There are possibilities of incorrect responses, fictional case laws, imaginative data etc generated by AI chatbots," citing the court, PTI reported.
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After analysing the products, the court ruled that the accessories of the defendant had a "clear intention to imitate and gain monetarily" benefits. The court added that it has "no doubt that the products of the Defendant are knock-offs or look-alikes of the complainant's distinctive shoes and footwear".
Coming to ChatGPT, the OpenAI model has been making waves across the internet due to its capabilities to answer user queries in a conversational style. The model has forced top tech companies to reconsider their product portfolio. Google and Microsoft are racing fast in this AI arms race.