A South African court case made headlines for all the wrong reasons in January 2025. The legal team in Mavundla vs. MEC: Department of Co-Operative Government and Traditional Affairs KwaZulu-Natal and Others had relied on case law that simply didn’t exist. It had been generated by ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI.A South African court case made headlines for all the wrong reasons in January 2025. The legal team in Mavundla vs. MEC: Department of Co-Operative Government and Traditional Affairs KwaZulu-Natal and Others had relied on case law that simply didn’t exist. It had been generated by ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI.Machine learning & AI[#item_full_content]