Brazilian City Passes Law Drafted By ChatGPT

Brazilian city passes law that, unknown to most of council, was drafted in 15 seconds by OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.
A city in southern Brazil has passed a law written in 15 seconds in its entirety by OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot.
The law's sponsor, city councilman Ramiro Rosario, disclosed the fact that the text had been written by AI last week, six days after the law went into effect on 23 November.
The text had been vetted by several council committees and was passed unanimously by the 36-member body in October, The Washington Post reported.
Rosario, who describes himself as a tech enthusiast, said his constituents had asked for a law preventing them from being charged when the city-owned water meters were stolen.
In addition to basic requirements, ChatGPT suggested setting a 30-day deadline for the city to replace stolen water meters and, if this was not met, exempting property owners from paying their water bills.
Such a text would ordinarily have taken him three days to draft and would have required meetings with Rosario's team and legal sources, he told the Post.
He submitted the text in June and the council's legislative drafting branch made only minor changes to its wording to be in line with typical legislative style, according to the Post.
ChatGPT and similar tools use a wide variety of sources and generates texts based on prior models that it has assimilated.
Their use is controversial in professional contexts due to issues such as the copyright status of the source material they draw on and the routine inclusion of false information.
Earlier this year a New York lawyer used ChatGPT to look up legal precedents for a case, or so he thought, only to find that the chatbot had invented several prior cases and had continued to falsely insist afterward that they were real.


This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:43:06 +0000


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