A Trump-appointed judge needed help with a court ruling, so he turned to ChatGPT.

Judge Chad Readler from the Court of Appeals’ Sixth Circuit consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot and Urban Dictionary to decipher whether the phrase “monkey a--” was racially hostile.

The move stemmed from a case where plaintiffs Thomas Michael Smith and Monaleto Sneed alleged that their former supervisors at PAM Transport Inc. discriminated against them for being Black by referring to them by using terms like “monkey” and “monkey a--.”

District Judge Eli Richardson in Tennessee, also a Trump appointee, ruled in favor of the trucking company last year. But the three-panel Sixth Circuit reversed the ruling in a Thursday decision.

In his separate concurring opinion, Readler wrote that the Tennessee

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