A woman in California successfully used AI tools, including ChatGPT, to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties over several months of litigation.

As NBC News reports, Lynn White was behind on rent and initially lost a jury trial after facing an eviction notice. Instead of continuing to work with a local tenant advocacy network, she consulted ChatGPT and the AI search platform Perplexity to represent herself in court.

That’s almost always a bad idea. But according to NBC, the chatbot identified potential errors in a judge’s procedural decisions for White, informed her what actions to take, and drafted responses to the court.

“I can’t overemphasize the usefulness of AI in my case,” she told the broadcaster. “I never, ever, ever, ever could have wo

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