Vancouver property owner may have used AI to get a lower assessment

The owner of a piece of Vancouver real estate that was assessed at over $19 million managed to knock nearly a million dollars off the amount used to calculate property taxes, but the Property Assessment Appeal Board of British Columbia says Fu D. Ren breached its code of conduct and may have used artificial intelligence to make his argument. Article content

The code forbids submissions that are inaccurate, misleading, or manipulated, according to a recent decision from the board. Article content Article content

“The appellant’s submission includes quotations from legal case citations that do not exist,” John Bridal, the panel’s chair, wrote in a recent decision.

“It is possible that these may be ‘hallucinations’ from using generative artificial intelligence to assist with developing