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Bluesky · bsky.app
“RFK Jr’s HHS getting caught submitting legal filings where 22 out of 29 footnotes were fabricated by AI!”
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What lawyers say about ChatGPT
Last signal: Oct 24, 2026, a voice. newest voice Oct 24, 2026; newest release on record Aug 7, 2025; no official statement read. No vendor price is published here.
Net
−13
Voices
2,467
Confidence
High
Rank
No. 10 of 14
90% band −16 to −10
- Trendno clear move (−7 pts, 90 days)
- Most valuedTime saved 351 voices
- Top complaintHallucination 665 voices
What the record says · AI Vortex
The most named complaint is hallucination (665 of 2467 voices); the most valued thing is time saved (351). The whole band sits below zero: more lawyers on record dislike it than like it. 349 voices come from Hacker News, 2038 from Reddit and 80 from Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy and Stack Exchange.
What they’re saying · verbatim, newest first
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Bluesky · bsky.app
“RFK Jr’s HHS getting caught submitting legal filings where 22 out of 29 footnotes were fabricated by AI!”
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Bluesky · bsky.app
“Orally must admit, impressive.”
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Bluesky · bsky.app
“ChatGPT, Claude, etc., can be incredibly useful tools—but like any tool, AI has its limitations, and using it to prepare a request for legal assistance can sometimes create more problems than it solves.”
MixedAccuracyUnverified voice
r/Lawyertalk
“I used ChatGPT to organize my thoughts and key points to demonstrate that I had a case, to speak in attorney language; connect the dots for them.”
in “Any of you plaintiff lawyers getting exhausted by unreadable AI-vomited "Executive Summaries" from potential c…” · 3 voices
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2 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026Westlaw AIValues
“Westlaw and Lexis’s AI platforms have hyperlinked footnotes everywhere so you can see where it pulled the information from.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026ChatGPTValues
“It's an incredibly useful tool in many areas of the law, and life.”
open
r/Lawyertalk
“Yes I’ve used ChatGPT to write a brief for me, but I checked every single cite to verify (1) the case existed, and (2) it was a correct recitation of what the case said.”
in “Both sides filed fake AI citations in the same case. The judge sanctioned all four lawyers.”
NeutralDrafting qualityUnverified voice
r/biglaw
“What pisses me off is that our clients ARE using Claude and ChatGPT themselves and we’re stuck using these inferior models.”
in “Harvey / Legora are awful.” · 38 voices
ValuesGeneral useUnverified voice
37 more voices in this thread
- r/biglaw · Oct 19, 2026CriticizesLegal SaaS platforms like Harvey and Legora are just wrappers around LLMs, and the author's firm built its own in-house platform and sees their valuations as unjustified. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026
HarveyValues“Boomer here, but I think Harvey is incredible.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues
“When you know what you are doing and what you want, Harvey is great IMO.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026CoCounselNeutral
“CoCounsel allows you to build workflows and combine with other sources too, though.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues
“The US caselaw search is better because you can combine it with other sources so you can have it look through a set of litigation documents and run caselaw research to help figure out their significance at the same time.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026ClaudeValues
“To be very clear, in my experience having these systems finely tuned to your individual work vs the level of tuning you can get out of harvey/cocounsel/co-pilot can represent 2-3x productivity increases.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues
“Harvey vault is amazing for working with discovery productions.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Harvey also has a US Caselaw database where whichever model you pick will directly search for cases in the database.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026CriticizesSays lawyers will not use raw coding or chat tools and need a wrapper around the model to make it usable. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Harvey can be used with Astra 6 or Fable, your firm just has to agree to API pricing.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Harvey uses the Chat GPT and Claude models and you can actually pick which model.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Alls I know is that I can’t keep track of all the platforms so I stick to my mans Harvey even though the other mans might be better.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral
“You do realize that Harvey was literally just an interface to access Claude since day 1.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Harvey and Legora are inferior products, by magnitudes, and any firm that exclusively relies on these tools is falling behind in productivity and associate satisfaction.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues
“If you are using Fable and you give it enough project data, it can function like your associate on that case who has a mastery of facts and super fast turnaround.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Harvey sucks because it's just an API built on top of open-source AI models, which are way behind the models currently available through openAI or Claude.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizesYounger lawyers who grew up with general AI tools would be disadvantaged by using Harvey, while older lawyers can be forgiven for adopting it. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“This is basically a fine tuned version of the Kimi K3 model which they claim is better but is clearly worse”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Harvey does have its own propriety model. And yes, if you select a specific model, only the output is generated by that model, not all of the intervening tasks.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral
“There is no “Harvey” model. Harvey just picks one of the models based on your prompt.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed
“I like to think of Harvey as an energetic junior, does their best, a fine starting point, but doesn’t produce a product I’d be willing to send a client without a deeeep review”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues
“Harvey's been killing it for me on the transaction side with the rote drafting and title work.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues
“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues
“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues
“I use Harvey daily and think it’s a fantastic product (as long as you use it to supplement, not replace your work product)”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues
“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues
“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Even when I add docs to a vault and ask for a review table, getting Harvey to actually “read” the docs is like pulling teeth.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude code with a syfert.com MCP (or a courtlistener MCP, or ding duff) is 500% better than Harvey and Legora.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed
“It’s usually right but the times it isn’t it’s REALLY wrong.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“I also do not think I’m getting real Opus 5 when I select it in Harvey. And it’s hella slow.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Harvey profits by arbitrating token costs, so they use the cheapest models they think can get away with for the bulk of response.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“They came out years later than Harvey, when firms already adopted Harvey, but yeah, firms should abandon Harveyw”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues
“My firm has Harvey and CoCounsel, and I just use CC bc it has access to Westlaw.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“It routinely gives me genuinely “lazy” answers that fail to address what are obviously critical aspects of the issue, in a way that is not true of Fable or Astra”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“The only reason firms choose Harvey is it doesn’t use our data to train its AI due to confidentiality, or else they are trash”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“All other tasks, such as the actual research, review, etc, are handled by whatever model Harvey wants, including their own shitty “proprietary” models.”
open
r/LawFirm
“ChatGPT is still miles above it even though it sucks now too.”
in “ChatGPT v. Gemini” · 23 voices
MixedAccuracyUnverified voice
22 more voices in this thread
- r/LawFirm · Feb 19, 2026ChatGPTValues
“Use ChatGPT Pro. It is the slowest, most expensive, and highest quality answer to any question.”
open - r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes
“Agree, huge drop off in quality of paid Chat GPT in last few weeks.”
open - r/LawFirm · Oct 2, 2025ChatGPTMixed
“ChatGPT is great for brainstorming and drafting, but when it comes to parsing long, dense legal docs it still makes stuff up if it “thinks” it should be there.”
open - r/LawFirm · Oct 1, 2025GeminiCriticizes
“Gemini is definitely not accurate. Take any deposition and check the pincites Gemini provides and you will find many inaccuracies.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 29, 2025GeminiValues
“It seems like Gemini is currently more reliable for purely "grounded" tasks like summarizing what's right there on the page and nothing more.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025GeminiCriticizes
“I did have Gemini lie to me once about a citation, and it fought me even when I said it was hallucinating because the language that it was citing didn't exist in the document.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025GeminiMixed
“It's able to find web results that GPT and Claude haven't been able to find, but it will throw off a lot of hallucinations on document analysis, too.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025
CopilotNeutral“CoPilot uses Claude (it used to use GPT), so I'm not sure why the speaker would think it's a closed system.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025ClaudeValues
“Honestly, I typically bounce around from LLMs, Claude being my preferred but it sometimes feels like on any given day one of them is out performing the other on a specific use case.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025ChatGPTValues
“ChatCPT is far superior. It's not even close.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025GeminiCriticizes
“It’s essentially like google said “if you don’t want to share with us then we aren’t going to let Gemini store, hold or access anything at all.” 👎”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025ChatGPTMixed
“It’s not bad if you know all the tips and tricks to keep it on track; like starting a new chat before a major task, giving it clear instructions each time (bc it tends to forget saves prompts).”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes
“Large language models are not reliable .”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025ChatGPTValues
“I use ChatGPT successfully to help summarize intakes, create outlines, point me toward the law, give me tactical considerations for generating depo questions, etc.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025GeminiValues
“Bottom line: make it show receipts; once you require quotes and cites, both models behave much better.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ClaudeValues
“I've found Claude to be, by far, the most accurate and least hallucination-prone of any of them.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes
“I used it again not two weeks ago on another deposition and it was shitty.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes
“Despite the fact that I give it clear and detailed directions it more often than not only partially follows them and it requires multiple attempts to complete assignments to my satisfaction.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTMixed
“I know for business products, like what we use (api, ChatGPT business and enterprise) there’s stricter privacy control.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025CriticizesSays all LLMs including legal-branded ones hallucinate and that careful prompting and model choice can replicate them, noting GPT-5 was not great. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025CoCounselValues
“Duo through Clio and Co-Counsel through Westlaw are two versions that I would rely on more that are vetted for law firm use. Co-Counsel has guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”
open - r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes
“I asked it to review and summarize a word document. It was completely wrong.”
open
r/legaltech
“It's only the pure consumer level plans that require opt-out instead of defaulting to it.”
in “Lawyers using ChatGPT: how are you protecting client data?” · 18 voices
NeutralGeneral useUnverified voice
17 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Oct 11, 2026CriticizesVendor documentation shows web search queries and EU data residency fall outside the no-training and DPA protections for Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 9, 2026NeutralConsumer and business plans from OpenAI and Anthropic differ in data protection, yet none creates privilege and only enterprise API use gives zero retention. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 8, 2026ChatGPTValues
“The contract is no different from them using any other tool out there.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“A pivileged convo can get read by someone with zero duty to your client and you'll never know which is the risk to deal with.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026NeutralClient data can be redacted with a small local model before it goes to Claude or ChatGPT, though open-source local models perform worse than closed ones. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026ClaudeValuesLawyers should use the Claude Teams plan even as a solo practitioner and avoid putting protected third-party litigation data into lower tiers. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“GPT will always spot something that Claude has got wrong or missed, and visa versa”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026CopilotCriticizes
“Copilot is deceptively expensive, especially Cowork”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026HarveyNeutral
“I think a big part of Harvey and Legora’s moat is trust by association.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026MixedNo-training settings on mid-tier plans are a good first step, but privilege protection depends on contractual terms covering retention, provider review access and admin controls. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe firm uses an Enterprise Claude plan installed locally with training disabled, avoids ChatGPT, and never enters confidential client data. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues
“I personally see that as overkill given how much data attorneys regularly entrust to digital providers without that same standard.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues
“Both of these services default to not training on any of your chats or data rather than requiring you to opt out. So quite affordable.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues
“Both of these services default to not training on any of your chats or data rather than requiring you to opt out. So quite affordable.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralEnterprise Claude would be an approved tool while personal Claude or ChatGPT accounts would not be. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutral
“This ruling says nothing about attorneys using AI and confidential information, it just confirms that AI tools are just as valid for search by authorities as is google, facebook, or any other digital tool on your machine.”
open - r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“Even the paid Claude AI consumer plans do not contain a confidentiality rider.”
open
Hacker News
“[...] my friend has said it has just made up case law that isn't real.”
in “The Anthropic Economic Index” · 2 voices
MixedHallucinationSecond-hand report
The newest 300 of 2467 voices, one line each
One-line summaries are written by our classifier, not quotes. Follow “open” for the original.
| Date | Source | Stance | Task | Summary | |
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| Oct 24, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | The author mocks a government legal filing in which 22 of 29 footnotes were reportedly fabricated by AI, and says courts should check such citations. | open |
| Oct 24, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | The author mocks a government legal filing in which 22 of 29 footnotes were reportedly fabricated by AI, and says courts should check such citations. | open |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Other | A general counsel ran a policy document through ChatGPT and returned 50 irrelevant comments, which added work instead of useful review. | open |
| Oct 21, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | The author reported a lawyer to the bar for filings with misleading precedents invented by ChatGPT and for feeding client data into AI. | open |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Mixed | Drafting | AI chatbots are useful, but using them to prepare a request for legal help can create more problems than it solves. | open |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Values | General use | A tech lawyer found ChatGPT voice impressive for noticing they were a lawyer and handling an awkward legal question. | open |
| Oct 20, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Other | Some of the worst criminal lawyering the author has seen came from lawyers asking ChatGPT how to cross-examine a witness. | open |
| Oct 18, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Other | A state high court found a murder appeal was improperly affected by fabricated testimony generated by ChatGPT, showing the risks of AI in legal matters. | open |
| Oct 17, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Summarization | A client says ChatGPT helped organize the facts in legal terms so that plaintiff attorneys finally agreed to take the case. | open |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Legal research | A veteran lawyer was fined for filing six fabricated cases in federal court after trusting ChatGPT. | open |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Legal research | A veteran lawyer was fined for filing six fabricated cases in federal court after trusting ChatGPT. | open |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Legal research | A litigant built a defense around a case that ChatGPT fabricated, which is a failure of relying on it for legal research. | open |
| Oct 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | The author says lawyers are sanctioned not for using AI but for filing work they cannot vouch for, and a documented AI policy is becoming evidence of competence. | open |
| Oct 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Drafting | The author uses ChatGPT to write briefs but verifies every citation, and would never file AI output unchecked. | open |
| Oct 16, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | General use | The author is frustrated that their firm is stuck with inferior models while their clients use Claude and ChatGPT directly. | open |
| Oct 15, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | ChatGPT and Claude are better than Legora and Harvey, which only exist because of privacy and document upload limits. | open |
| Oct 14, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | General use | Union members have raised workplace grievances using misleading legal advice produced by ChatGPT. | open |
| Oct 14, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | Other | Says using ChatGPT to find and fill in immigration forms saved a large amount in legal fees, and all the filings were accepted. | open |
| Oct 14, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Mixed | General use | ChatGPT has declined since GPT-4o was removed but is still far better than Gemini, which is immature for law. | open |
| Oct 14, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Lawyers now have to argue with their own clients because ChatGPT is giving them false information about the law. | open |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | General use | Advised a colleague to take a question about a specific form to the legal department instead of ChatGPT, since it is not a qualified source of legal advice. | open |
| Oct 13, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | Legal research | A research workflow using ChatGPT web, Claude and a Lexis pull list works far better than Lexis or Westlaw AI. | open |
| Oct 11, 2026 | Lemmy · lemmy.world | Criticizes | Drafting | A lawyer used ChatGPT for briefs containing fabricated witnesses and testimony in a murder appeal, resulting in contempt order. | open |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | Lawyers have filed ChatGPT-written briefs containing invented cases because they failed to proofread or verify the citations. | open |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Citation checking | Two lawyers at a London firm self-reported to the regulator after filing fake quotations generated by ChatGPT. | open |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Lemmy · lemmy.durstig.online/c/ai_reddit | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT invented court cases that lawyers relied on, and the lawyers were suspended as a result. | open |
| Oct 9, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Drafting | A law clerk's AI-written client letter breached confidentiality policy and was wrong about the client's situation, so many firms have little tolerance for sharing client data with tools like ChatGPT. | open |
| Oct 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | OpenAI's contract is no different from other vendors for confidential data, but if a client requires data to stay in-network, open models should be used. | open |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Mixed | General use | Generative AI is fine for people who can spot its errors, but a non-lawyer relying on it for legal advice cannot. | open |
| Oct 7, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | Summarization | Abuse monitoring can flag sensitive family law or criminal defense transcripts pasted into ChatGPT for human review, exposing privileged content even on enterprise plans. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Citation checking | Warns lawyers not to accept claims that ChatGPT has fixed fabricated citations, pointing to a New York lawyer sanctioned for a brief with invented quotations and holdings. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Lemmy · lemmy.world | Criticizes | Citation checking | ChatGPT invented cases for lawyers and, when asked, insisted they were real and findable on Westlaw and LexisNexis. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Mixed | Contract review | Since the Sol 6.1 release ChatGPT reasons worse on legal and contractual analysis, needs more re-prompting; poster reverted to GPT 6 Astra. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Business plans for ChatGPT and Claude cost about $20 per user, do not train on data by default, and are quite affordable for lawyers. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Business plans for ChatGPT and Claude cost about $20 per user, do not train on data by default, and are quite affordable for lawyers. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | No-training defaults apply to OpenAI and Anthropic business and enterprise plans, while consumer plans require opting out. | open |
| Oct 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Requiring zero data retention is overkill because lawyers already trust other cloud providers, so a training opt-out should be sufficient. | open |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Citation checking | The Mata v. Avianca lawyer asked ChatGPT to confirm a case was real, it falsely said yes, and he was sanctioned for the fake citations. | open |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Values | Other | A non-lawyer says ChatGPT helped them build a defense in an insurance deductible dispute by working through many documents, saving them $1,838.30. | open |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | A lawyer filed a murder appeal citing witnesses ChatGPT invented, and the author notes this keeps happening in real courts. | open |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | A lawyer used ChatGPT to draft briefs in a murder appeal that included invented witnesses and testimony. | open |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Mastodon · mastodon.social#lawyers | Criticizes | Drafting | A lawyer's ChatGPT-generated appeal briefs contained invented witnesses and testimony; he was caught by judges. | open |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Lemmy · lemmy.world | Criticizes | Drafting | A lawyer's ChatGPT-generated brief included wholly fabricated witnesses and testimony; New Mexico Supreme Court held him in direct contempt. | open |
| Oct 1, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | With clear and specific instructions, Claude and ChatGPT can be set up to say there is nothing there when nothing is found. | open |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | The author criticizes a lawyer who had ChatGPT write briefs containing invented people, facts and citations and filed them without verifying anything. | open |
| Sep 30, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | Other | Sending privileged client information to chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude without the firm's knowledge is highly problematic because they make no strong privacy claims. | open |
| Sep 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Reports healthcare provider clients panicked after ChatGPT wrongly told them they faced a high chance of prison in licensing matters. | open |
| Sep 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Citation checking | ChatGPT's browser use can run KeyCite flawlessly, and Westlaw is free for pro se litigants through public libraries. | open |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | General use | ChatGPT can tell you what to do, but a lawyer's fee pays for taking on liability and accountability if the advice is wrong, which you cannot get from OpenAI. | open |
| Sep 28, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Used ChatGPT without a lawyer, obtained a settlement they were happy with, and thinks lawyers' jobs are threatened. | open |
| Sep 28, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Believes ChatGPT's disclaimer that it gives no legal advice sits close to the line of unauthorized practice of law. | open |
| Sep 28, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Says clients now cite ChatGPT the way they used to cite hearsay from acquaintances, and it offers about the same level of insight. | open |
| Sep 28, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | Uses ChatGPT regularly and finds it very helpful for drafts that include disclaimers and blanks to be completed after attorney review. | open |
| Sep 28, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Says ChatGPT gives wrong answers without pushback, wastes attorney time, strains client relationships and risks confidentiality breaches and discoverable material. | open |
| Sep 26, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Other | Warns against running drafts through a public ChatGPT license because of privilege questions, possible disclosure to third parties and likely protective order violations. | open |
| Sep 25, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Other | Recommends redacting PII and metadata and then using ChatGPT or another LLM to catch typos, saying they are great at it. | open |
| Sep 21, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | Other | Consumer ChatGPT and Claude plans fail compliance review, so firms should use a no-train contract tool and keep transcripts in the matter system. | open |
| Sep 20, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | Business-tier ChatGPT keeps data for 30 days and may be reviewed, but the risk is probably acceptable given how much client email already sits with cloud providers. | open |
| Sep 20, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Having read the terms, a business OpenAI subscription with 30-day storage is no more dangerous than keeping the same document in OneDrive long term. | open |
| Sep 19, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | The author says small open source models and ChatGPT Pro can do this work and built such a tool for their firm. | open |
| Sep 19, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Plain consumer ChatGPT is problematic for client confidentiality because the provider has no confidentiality duty, unlike a trusted cloud provider with proper controls. | open |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | Contract review | ChatGPT flags dozens of changes on a contract, including trivial ones, where a good lawyer would say the changes are not worth fighting over. | open |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | General use | A human lawyer is preferable to ChatGPT for representation because a good lawyer knows local judges' tendencies and can tailor arguments, which machine-generated judgments cannot. | open |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | Drafting | The author argues that LLMs do not understand what they produce and cites attorneys disciplined for hallucinated content in ChatGPT-drafted pleadings and costly mistakes from relying on its legal advice. | open |
| Sep 18, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Other | Clients use ChatGPT to generate huge, nitpicky critiques of documents that cannot be billed for, yet the author finds it useful and feels forced to use AI too. | open |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | Legal research | If both parties use ChatGPT to find relevant laws and read contracts, disputes could settle outside court without expensive legal fees. | open |
| Sep 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Pays $40 a month for ChatGPT and says it lets them actually practice law rather than fake it. | open |
| Sep 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Lists a paid ChatGPT Plus subscription as part of their practice software, without evaluating it. | open |
| Sep 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Lists ChatGPT as used for drafting, analysis, document review and research support in a remote firm's software stack, without evaluating it. | open |
| Sep 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | A legal assistant relied on ChatGPT analysis that turned out wrong, causing needless anxiety, and the author objects to treating it as looking something up. | open |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Lemmy · lemmy.ml | Criticizes | Summarization | Defense lawyer's appeal brief contained ChatGPT-fabricated witnesses and testimony; New Mexico court fined him $5,000 and referred him for discipline. | open |
| Sep 15, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Distrusts OpenAI's handling of user data and expects prompts, telemetry or usage summaries to be used even if they are technically not the client's data. | open |
| Sep 14, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT tells self-represented clients they have a valid argument by reading the statute in isolation, without knowing how the judge will rule. | open |
| Sep 14, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Believes the enterprise plans of frontier models such as Claude or ChatGPT are much better than the dedicated legal AI tools, which the author says are poor. | open |
| Sep 13, 2026 | r/paralegal | Criticizes | Other | A paralegal says ChatGPT and Claude cannot do client intakes or damage analysis from physical documents and still make many mistakes because they lack judgment. | open |
| Sep 12, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | General use | Lawyers keep submitting fabricated material from ChatGPT, including false testimony, and the author asks whether stricter penalties are needed. | open |
| Sep 12, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Mocks the idea of using ChatGPT for legal work as inappropriate. | open |
| Sep 12, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | ChatGPT has become very good and is mostly correct when asked for a few basic leading cases on a legal issue. | open |
| Sep 12, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Start-up CEOs rely on AI tools that give wrong legal analysis, and the lawyer has to correct them, even getting the AI to admit the error. | open |
| Sep 12, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | AI has few proper uses in legal practice; billing clients for work run through ChatGPT is bordering on malpractice or fraud. | open |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | General use | The author recalls a safety training citing a law firm whose cases were thrown out because no one reviewed ChatGPT's work, warning against trusting AI output. | open |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Mastodon · mastodon.online#hallucination | Criticizes | Citation checking | A lawyer using ChatGPT was disciplined for citing nonexistent witnesses and fake testimony, showing the need to verify LLM output. | open |
| Sep 11, 2026 | r/biglaw | Mixed | Legal research | ChatGPT gives coherent and largely accurate answers to research questions, but its case citations cannot be trusted. | open |
| Sep 11, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | Legal research | ChatGPT is far better at legal research than Westlaw's CoCounsel, which seems over-restricted, and the author has not found a fully fabricated citation in its answers. | open |
| Sep 11, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | Legal research | Finds ChatGPT as good as Harvey for getting a grip on a legal subject, then verifies with real research. | open |
| Sep 9, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | General use | Connecting ChatGPT to a whole live inbox creates real confidentiality risk, including for prospective clients, so use in-tenant tools like Copilot or Gemini or push selected threads with a human check. | open |
| Sep 9, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT Business is not equivalent to a written zero-retention contract, so a whole-mailbox connector adds a new processor and confidentiality exposure. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | General use | Says ChatGPT is no riskier than other cloud tools, that data sharing should simply be turned off, and that most attorneys already use AI. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Neutral | General use | Says enterprise or API ChatGPT with zero-retention terms is protected by contract, while lower-tier accounts carry more exposure. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | General use | Argues there is no real distinction between ChatGPT and other cloud tools, that attorneys widely use AI, and that critics are overly cautious. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | General use | Asserts that attorneys are free to use non-enterprise ChatGPT and that stronger protections do not change that. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | General use | Reasons that OpenAI's 30-day retention on paid business plans is no riskier than email stored for years on Microsoft servers, and asks what is missing. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | General use | Warns that connecting a whole mailbox to ChatGPT sends mail from non-clients without consent and adds a new data processor. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | General use | Advises small firms against hooking ChatGPT Business to a live inbox and suggests narrower access or keeping the model inside the firm's existing Microsoft or Google tenant. | open |
| Sep 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Mixed | General use | Says consumer-level AI tools carry subpoena risk for client data, while enterprise ChatGPT and Claude offer zero-retention and auditing controls suited to confidential work. | open |
| Sep 7, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | General use | Warns that on basic plans OpenAI keeps chat history for about 30 days, which may waive privilege and expose data to subpoena. | open |
| Sep 7, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | General use | Cautions that lower-tier ChatGPT chats were subpoenaed in the NYT case and that connecting email gives broad access, citing ABA Opinion 512. | open |
| Sep 3, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | ChatGPT is great for locating a specific witness testimony passage in a trial transcript. | open |
| Sep 3, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Contract review | If ChatGPT gives better redlines and cleaner formatting at a fraction of the cost, a small in-house team has no reason to pay for Harvey. | open |
| Sep 2, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | A self-represented litigant using AI for filings is succeeding against a large company, provided they check carefully for hallucinated citations and understand the case law. | open |
| Sep 2, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Family law clients usually send ChatGPT material that is poor, and the lawyer tells them so. | open |
| Sep 2, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | Output quality depends mostly on accumulated context and prompting rather than on differences between the models. | open |
| Aug 31, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Warns against putting deposition transcripts and other sensitive client documents into ChatGPT, which is riskier than using it for generic research or contract terms. | open |
| Aug 30, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | None of the legal AI platforms is better than a plain Claude or ChatGPT subscription, even before adding skills or project files. | open |
| Aug 30, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | After running identical prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Harvey, the author found ChatGPT best, with correct pincited cases and better Word redlines, and doesn't see why Harvey is worth about $30k a year. | open |
| Aug 30, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Contract review | As an in-house paralegal doing many contract reviews, the author has compared Claude and ChatGPT enterprise on the same queries and agrees with the earlier comment about ChatGPT, to their surprise. | open |
| Aug 27, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT gives self-represented litigants unrealistic expectations of what a court will award, which makes settlement in discretionary family law matters nearly impossible. | open |
| Aug 27, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | A former client uploaded their whole file to ChatGPT, which claimed a soft tissue injury was worth over $5 million, leading to a state bar complaint against the lawyer. | open |
| Aug 22, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Citation checking | The author had a pro se opponent's pleadings struck for repeatedly citing fabricated AI cases and was awarded nearly $40k in fees. | open |
| Aug 22, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | For a last-minute deposition, use ChatGPT to draft a full outline from your objectives without entering client information, and use it as a script. | open |
| Aug 20, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Paid ChatGPT has an incognito-style mode where chats are not remembered, though the author has not read the terms. | open |
| Aug 20, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Premium ChatGPT lets users opt a chat out of training, though many may forget to. | open |
| Aug 20, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | A solo estate and small business lawyer says a $20/month ChatGPT plan works fine when using abstraction, redaction and minimization of client data. | open |
| Aug 19, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | Clients' overconfidence in ChatGPT's hallucinated case summaries makes intake slower and more painful. | open |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Drafting | A Los Angeles lawyer used ChatGPT and Claude to write briefs without review and filed false citations and quotations, raising doubt that a closed AI system avoids hallucinated cases. | open |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | Other | ChatGPT showed poor ethical alignment by complying with a request to make facts fit a predetermined conclusion in a legal case. | open |
| Aug 18, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Describes a corporate legal team connecting iManage to ChatGPT Enterprise that looked impressive and opened access to decades of historical documents. | open |
| Aug 16, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | Legal research | The author uses ChatGPT and Claude with their documents for legal research and plans to explore connectors further. | open |
| Aug 16, 2026 | r/paralegal | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT is not private, so putting client material into it carries serious risks. | open |
| Aug 15, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Entering client information into free web ChatGPT breaches confidentiality duties under Model Rule 1.6, while closed-loop versions avoid this problem. | open |
| Aug 15, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | The author pays for a ChatGPT business license to keep data in a closed loop and says they know the professional responsibility rules. | open |
| Aug 15, 2026 | r/paralegal | Values | General use | As an attorney, they say ChatGPT saves a lot of time on recycled legal work as long as its output is always double-checked. | open |
| Aug 14, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | The lawyer is tired of arguing with clients about ChatGPT suggestions that do not fit their circumstances. | open |
| Aug 14, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | General use | The lawyer declined a prospective client who kept second-guessing counsel with ChatGPT, though ChatGPT's answer was more right than wrong but incomplete. | open |
| Aug 14, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | A law clerk can use ChatGPT or Claude for a demand letter draft to spark ideas, then edit it and learn from it. | open |
| Aug 13, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | A client relied on ChatGPT's legal advice, made a harmful decision and still disputes the lawyer's correction. | open |
| Aug 13, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Drafting | The author's firm uses ChatGPT Enterprise, which drafted about 80% of a 25-page legal advice and cut a week of work to 10 hours of review. | open |
| Aug 13, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Most legal AI tools are not worth paying for; ChatGPT, Claude or Grok with prompts suffice. | open |
| Aug 11, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Government attorney has used the agency's AI tools but is uneasy that FOIA, discovery and privilege treatment of prompts and outputs is unsettled. | open |
| Aug 9, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Citation checking | The author uses ChatGPT output but personally checks every citation and edits the text before relying on it. | open |
| Aug 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Mixed | Summarization | Free-tier ChatGPT risks having data used for training but is a decent baseline for summaries, while custom workflows tied to a firm's own resources give much better results. | open |
| Aug 7, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Consumer ChatGPT and Claude plans give weaker data protection than enterprise suites, allow human review of chats, and lack BAAs or privilege-appropriate safeguards for client data. | open |
| Aug 7, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Insisting on zero data retention is unnecessary once training is excluded, since retained data sits under confidentiality commitments like any law firm cloud document system. | open |
| Aug 7, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | OpenAI applies different security standards, terms and policies to enterprise and business customers than to consumer users. | open |
| Aug 7, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Consumer ChatGPT and Claude are the wrong tier for client files, so firms should sort work by sensitivity, use contracted zero-retention setups for client matters and keep human verification of citations. | open |
| Aug 7, 2026 | r/paralegal | Criticizes | Legal research | Reports a lawyer who uses AI to find cases but verifies them on Westlaw because ChatGPT has hallucinated cases. | open |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Other | ChatGPT gave poor legal advice by suggesting a demand letter to a law firm over a default judgment fine, which backfired. | open |
| Aug 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | ChatGPT can generate a full deposition question outline from an uploaded petition, making a move into civil litigation easier. | open |
| Aug 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Plugins add outside processors to the confidentiality analysis and will not fix poor output, so small firms should use one matter per chat, their own sources and a verification pass on every citation. | open |
| Aug 6, 2026 | r/paralegal | Criticizes | Discovery | Was let go after a new attorney began using ChatGPT for everything, and thinks its discovery questions are poor. | open |
| Aug 4, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Legal research | Is comfortable with Westlaw and its search features and only sometimes finds the suggestions from GPT helpful. | open |
| Aug 4, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | Advises searching the plugin directory for legal plugins and deciding what is needed, without evaluating their quality. | open |
| Aug 2, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Drafting | The author's boss insists on feeding documents into ChatGPT and AI-revising the author's memos, and the output is not better. | open |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Mastodon · mastodon.social#legalai | Criticizes | Contract review | Pasting critical business agreements into public LLMs is high risk. | open |
| Jul 31, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Contract review | Clients trusted ChatGPT's wrong claims of inconsistencies in a settlement agreement over their lawyer, which cost the author time explaining the errors. | open |
| Jul 31, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Drafting | Wills and trusts that clients draft with ChatGPT are junk, and clients ignore advice to hire a lawyer to draft them. | open |
| Jul 30, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Drafting | ChatGPT overused em dashes and produced fabricated cases even when told not to, though that has mostly been resolved, and the author sees AI-styled writing as lazy. | open |
| Jul 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Discovery | ChatGPT is pretty good at helping brainstorm discovery requests for a junior lawyer. | open |
| Jul 28, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | Other | Reports that GPT-5.6 Sol scored 86.5% to 100% on four UK and Indian legal exams, without further evaluation. | open |
| Jul 26, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | Benchmark on India bar exam: GPT-5.6 models scored top, Claude Opus 5 92.6 percent. | open |
| Jul 25, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Citation checking | The author believes ChatGPT rarely hallucinates cases now and that output can be double-checked as it should be anyway. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Lemmy · lemy.nl/c/nieuws | Criticizes | Legal research | A lawyer cited AI-fabricated sources, blamed a non-existent student, and was suspended after lying about ChatGPT use. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | General use | The author found Gemini's answers mostly wrong or misleading and says ChatGPT has been far more helpful with their legal and health problems. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT Plus raised security worries and could not handle real legal research, so the author is looking for a better platform. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | General use | The author uses Law Insider, ChatGPT Business for privacy reasons, and Claude in a solo practice. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | Drafting | The author pays too much for Lexis Protege AI and Westlaw, finds ChatGPT Business drafts better and cheaper, and still verifies every cite. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | Citation checking | Generic ChatGPT is much cheaper than legal AI platforms but is blind to citations, which matters depending on the use. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | Uses ChatGPT to clean up writing and has not seen hallucinations there, but found Gemini hallucinates badly. | open |
| Jul 23, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | A plain ChatGPT subscription is not a legal solution because data issues create malpractice risk, and integration with firms' existing systems is unclear. | open |
| Jul 15, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | Drafting | In-house counsel with all frontier models finds no use beyond clause drafting; a ChatGPT agent for ToU FAQs is not reliable enough. | open |
| Jul 14, 2026 | r/paralegal | Criticizes | Legal research | A pro se defendant relied on ChatGPT, which made up case law, in a motion filed in a court without jurisdiction. | open |
| Jul 13, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Citation checking | Using ChatGPT or Claude without Westlaw or Lexis to verify that cases are real invites serious professional trouble. | open |
| Jul 13, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Drafting | A pro se opponent using free ChatGPT misstated the law and wrote worse than an attorney would, while legal-specific tools are only secondhand knowledge. | open |
| Jul 13, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | GPT-5.6 Luna scored 9/10 on a legal AI benchmark and is great for legal use, but its weaker risk ranking and hallucination resistance mean outputs need lawyer review. | open |
| Jul 13, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | On a 12-task legal AI benchmark one GPT model scored higher than another, though suitability depends on the task, benchmark and harness. | open |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | General use | Finds GPT-5.6 Sol far better than Fable for legal work, saying Fable makes logic and grammar errors that change the meaning of sentences and require careful proofreading. | open |
| Jul 11, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | Drafting | ChatGPT and Gemini are the strongest for general writing, while Claude is excellent for analysis but can be overly formal. | open |
| Jul 11, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Citation checking | ChatGPT formatted citations well when given exact information, but the author would not trust any LLM beyond formatting what the lawyer provides. | open |
| Jul 11, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Zero data retention combined with new model releases creates compliance risk, and retention rules for the newest model are unclear. | open |
| Jul 10, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Drafting | The author had ChatGPT draft a response to a cease and desist letter and shared the draft without evaluating it. | open |
| Jul 10, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | In legal reasoning benchmark GPT was disqualified for hallucinating a non-existent provision; Claude Opus 95 percent. | open |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Citation checking | Free-tier ChatGPT models are not hallucinating less; GPT-5.1 fabricates legal citations at least 6.57% of the time and newer models cite more cases, increasing verification time. | open |
| Jul 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | GPT-5.5 should not be used for legal AI because it invented a nonexistent statutory provision in a benchmark test. | open |
| Jul 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Mixed | General use | Basic ChatGPT is not suitable for legal AI work unless its answers are grounded in sources. | open |
| Jul 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Mixed | Other | GPT-5.5 seems a weak choice for doing legal analysis itself but is very good at advising and grading other models. | open |
| Jul 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | General use | Only a fool would use ChatGPT for legal analysis, and the author bills time reviewing clients' ChatGPT output and writing opinions on why it is wrong. | open |
| Jul 4, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Using consumer ChatGPT compromises client data because it is used for training; lawyers should use the API or an enterprise account. | open |
| Jul 3, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Drafting | ChatGPT pushed me to remove an overly florid phrase from a brief, which I was annoyed about even though it flagged the wording. | open |
| Jun 27, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Drafting | Gets good drafting results from both ChatGPT and Claude, and finds the prompt and review process matters more than which top model is used. | open |
| Jun 26, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Legal research | I would never trust AI for research or citations and do my own on Westlaw and Lexis, but it is useful for polishing, editing and grammar. | open |
| Jun 26, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | ChatGPT can search Westlaw and Lexis and works better than their built-in systems; problems come from lawyers not understanding the technology. | open |
| Jun 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | ChatGPT cut appellate brief drafting from a day to a couple of hours and cited the record well, though it needs careful review and is no replacement for legal thinking. | open |
| Jun 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | ChatGPT has learned my style and saves time on routine tasks like calendar entries and scheduling orders. | open |
| Jun 24, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | Other | ChatGPT translates complex legal documents between English and Spanish faster and with fewer errors than professional translators the author has hired. | open |
| Jun 19, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | Drafting | The author uses ChatGPT to turn blunt complaints into formal, friendly legal wording for a GDPR compliance dispute and finds it very helpful. | open |
| Jun 19, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | ChatGPT is better than Lexis Protege for pleadings, though its output needs verification. | open |
| Jun 19, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | ChatGPT provides legal information well, possibly better than Lexis Protege, and lawyers must adapt. | open |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | General use | Uploading confidential legal matters to AI providers is risky because stored data can be obtained in discovery in a legal dispute, undermining protections like those for legal advice. | open |
| Jun 16, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Says ChatGPT output for lawyers improves greatly when the prompt gives a specific role and a structured output format. | open |
| Jun 14, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | The author built a custom GPT with instructions so it does not just tell users what they want to hear, though the people who need it never use it. | open |
| Jun 11, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Uploading confidential client information to ChatGPT risks waiving privilege and a bar complaint, and a recent ruling held AI search history is not protected. | open |
| Jun 11, 2026 | r/biglaw | Criticizes | Legal research | A summer associate forced to use ChatGPT must fact-check every output because it is poor at legal analysis, which doubles the workload despite partners expecting savings. | open |
| Jun 8, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Drafting | As a pro se litigant, the author finds ChatGPT and Gemini very helpful for turning rough thoughts into professional filings, but they invent cases, so citations must be verified independently. | open |
| Jun 7, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Neutral | General use | Users who check AI outputs still get burned by not checking which model version they use, since GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini answer legal questions differently. | open |
| Jun 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | ChatGPT Plus saves large amounts of time on oral argument scripts, replies, appellate briefs, scheduling orders and calendaring, and works well for citation checks, but the author does not trust it to draft motions on its own. | open |
| Jun 6, 2026 | Bluesky · bsky.app | Criticizes | Other | A judge used LLMs to interpret contested legal terms, but earlier research found GPT-3.5 poorly replicated survey results on the 'no vehicles in the park' problem. | open |
| Jun 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT flatters clients and invents case citations and parentheticals, which makes clients more anxious and unhappy when the lawyer corrects them. | open |
| Jun 5, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | General use | The author won a pro se family law case with a $20/month ChatGPT subscription instead of paying $10-15k for counsel. | open |
| Jun 4, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Contract review | Reports that a ChatGPT-based contract review workflow cut review time from four hours to 45 minutes. | open |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Hacker News | Mixed | Drafting | Uses general LLMs heavily for legal drafting; great at finding niche cases but hallucinated citations are the trap, so check output. | open |
| Jun 3, 2026 | r/legaltech | Mixed | General use | Avoid free versions and use ChatGPT Team, Claude Team or a SOC 2 legal AI tool because their terms exclude training on client data. | open |
| Jun 2, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | General-purpose ChatGPT produces poor work, and a firm should use AI built and trained for legal tasks instead. | open |
| Jun 2, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | For sensitive records, small firms should use enterprise Claude or ChatGPT with no-training terms, and where data is hosted matters more than model quality. | open |
| Jun 1, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | Using the latest ChatGPT and Claude models on deposition transcripts, both invented testimony and even fabricated quotations. | open |
| Jun 1, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Contract review | GPT-4 matched or slightly beat junior lawyers at contract issue-spotting while being far faster and cheaper, though humans were better at locating issues precisely. | open |
| May 30, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Enterprise ChatGPT doubled the author's productivity for transcript review, outlining and proofreading, with every authority hand-checked, and it outperforms Westlaw's CoCounsel in their trial. | open |
| May 27, 2026 | r/paralegal | Values | General use | ChatGPT correctly reads litigation terms like FROGS, but it only works well when the user has enough legal knowledge to check the output, so lawyers should not rely on it blindly. | open |
| May 27, 2026 | r/paralegal | Criticizes | General use | The author expected ChatGPT to know the litigation term and says this is another reason they do not trust AI. | open |
| May 27, 2026 | r/paralegal | Values | General use | ChatGPT has always known what FROGS means in litigation. | open |
| May 25, 2026 | Hacker News | Mixed | Drafting | Used ChatGPT for legal and administrative writing and found it lowered time and cost somewhat, but a lawyer still had to make important corrections and it takes a lot of diligence. | open |
| May 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Clients rely on ChatGPT for legal advice, get incorrect guidance, and then doubt their attorneys. | open |
| May 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Legal research | Uses AI to explore a topic alongside Westlaw, finding it occasionally surfaces a helpful case, but ChatGPT hallucinates case holdings and missed a key local ruling. | open |
| May 23, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | General use | Reports a New York fraud case where a court allowed an executive's ChatGPT logs despite a claim they were legal advice. | open |
| May 21, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Other | Found mock trial questioning with ChatGPT the most helpful way to prepare for testifying as an expert witness. | open |
| May 21, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | Considers editing documents the best use of AI and used ChatGPT to condense and sharpen a filing. | open |
| May 20, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | Legal research | Describes the NY lawyer whose ChatGPT research invented six plausible but fake cases as a classic hallucination. | open |
| May 20, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | General use | Sanctions cases come from asking ChatGPT to produce citations from memory, but hallucination is far rarer when it works only from cases or documents the lawyer supplies. | open |
| May 20, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Drafting | AI will soon take over routine work like contract drafting and review, with lawyers verifying output, so the author is adopting it now. | open |
| May 19, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Other | Reports using ChatGPT to analyze a Clio fee report for family law matters and shares the resulting figures. | open |
| May 19, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Finds ChatGPT loathsome because clients rely on its frequently wrong answers, which complicates advising them. | open |
| May 19, 2026 | r/biglaw | Criticizes | Drafting | Author finds ChatGPT can summarize contracts but gives inconsistent drafts, omits risks and sometimes invents case law, so review often cancels the time saved. | open |
| May 18, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Warns lawyers to assume most cases ChatGPT cites are nonexistent or do not support the stated proposition. | open |
| May 18, 2026 | r/legaltech | Neutral | General use | Vendor warnings against legal use are standard liability wording, even though most legal AI software is built on those same models. | open |
| May 14, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | General use | The author has used ChatGPT successfully for a year, does not want to retrain on Legora, and asks what others think of Legora. | open |
| May 14, 2026 | r/biglaw | Criticizes | General use | The author is concerned that chats with general chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude may not be privileged, unlike legal AI products built for confidentiality. | open |
| May 12, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Other | A corporate-licensed ChatGPT or Claude could handle redaction without a separate app, provided it runs in the firm's own cloud. | open |
| May 8, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Criticizes | Contract review | Enterprise ChatGPT missed an anti-subrogation clause in condo CC&Rs and admitted it had only reviewed the table of contents, likening it to an incompetent first-year associate. | open |
| May 8, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Clients should be shown court opinions sanctioning lawyers who cited fictitious cases from ChatGPT, since it is often wrong on the law. | open |
| May 8, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Discovery | A legal aid lawyer who normally dislikes AI saw a client use ChatGPT to deny requests for admission, which led opposing counsel to withdraw the motion to deem them admitted. | open |
| May 8, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | Legal research | Finds ChatGPT great for legal research when used to get cites that are then pulled from Westlaw or Lexis. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Mixed | Drafting | Uses ChatGPT for drafting but thinks AI is still somewhat overrated. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | Drafting | Considers ChatGPT and Claude the most useful for drafting, rewriting and organizing legal work, and Gemini helpful for large documents and quick research. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/LawFirm | Values | Drafting | Uses ChatGPT for emails, demand letters and timeline summaries to save time, but relies on Lexis for research and will not cite anything from general AI tools without checking it. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Says using ChatGPT for live client research is irresponsible when legal AI like Westlaw or Lexis offers verifiable citations linked to a reputable database. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Legal research | Disagrees that only legal AI should be used since other research tools also link to verifiable cases, but says enterprise versions with data processing agreements are needed to protect clients. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Warns that using ChatGPT can lead to unauthorized practice of law concerns and discipline because it hallucinates cases and the lawyer owns the work product. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Unlike Google, which only points a lawyer to ideas to research, ChatGPT presents itself as doing the research and cites cases that do not exist. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | ChatGPT is a great resource for a lawyer who knows the law and uses it properly, but an inexperienced attorney risks their reputation by relying on it. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT is considered unauthorized practice of law in many jurisdictions and lawyers have been sanctioned for using it for research, unlike Google searches that guide independent research. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Notes that ChatGPT inputs and outputs from clients may be discoverable in litigation. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Says ChatGPT Enterprise saved about five hours in a week and questions whether AI is really unreliable. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Discovery | A client's ChatGPT conversations about the case were ordered produced in discovery and the court held attorney-client privilege was waived once the client typed the information in. | open |
| May 7, 2026 | r/biglaw | Criticizes | Legal research | Every legal question the author asked ChatGPT was answered completely wrong, making it useless, while Harvey is an in-house tool that does not research. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT is not privileged, so lawyers should not enter anything they would not want the other side to see. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | General use | ChatGPT is fine when there is time to verify output, but an attorney relaying it on a live call is not what the client is paying for. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Using ChatGPT is not a per se violation, but entering confidential client information raises a confidentiality problem and its incorrect output may breach the duty of competence. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Neutral | Legal research | ChatGPT and Claude can both search the web when the user directs them to, so web search use is within the lawyer's control. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Legal research | ChatGPT is acceptable for looking up specific issues like a search engine, but the real problem is the new attorney's lack of competence and the employer's poor practices. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Says relying on ChatGPT in real time to advise clients is not research or basic competence and produces advice that is not reliable. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT, now with ads, is a harmful source of information and unsuitable for a lawyer's practice. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Legal research | ChatGPT is a research tool that works for general questions but cited cases must be verified; it should not be used during consults, though that is not a reportable offense. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT may help generate ideas for an article, but using it for client matters is wrong given lawyers disciplined for nonexistent case law. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT is not a reliable source of legal information and lawyers should not use it during client consults. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Putting client data into a public tool like ChatGPT violates privilege unless the technology is closed and unique to the firm. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Lawyers may use AI to organize thoughts but must verify independently, avoid fake citations and never enter confidential client information into open AI platforms. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | A paid professional ChatGPT license can be set so data is not used for training, leaving no confidentiality concern. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Answer correctness is a concern, but the bigger ethical issue is sharing client information with a third party on the standard ChatGPT site rather than an enterprise account. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | Using AI for a quick first-pass look at an issue during a client consultation is like a Google search and is not an ethics violation, though hallucinated cites in filings would be a different matter. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Lawyers should use Lexis, Westlaw or a free tool like Perplexity that links its sources rather than ChatGPT, which is the weakest option for legal research. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | AI is useful for a quick answer, but the lawyer must keep client data out and check every assertion and citation against the primary source before relying on it. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | A bar CLE training said ChatGPT makes it effectively impossible to avoid opting in, so lawyers may be agreeing to data use without knowing it. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Using AI to quickly explain a known area and list talking points is a normal use as long as it does not replace the attorney's own judgment. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT is like a halfway intelligent high schooler writing a quick memo, and its confidence is dangerous because only a knowledgeable user can tell when it is wrong. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | Says ChatGPT is acceptable in a firm-licensed closed environment as a supplement, but not the public version, and has caught it hallucinating often. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | General use | Says AI can be an acceptable research or drafting aid but cannot replace competence, supervision and professional judgment when advising clients live. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Warns that public AI tools like ChatGPT present hallucinations as fact and raise privacy concerns, so relying on them for high-stakes legal advice is a bad idea. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | Uses ChatGPT with an uploaded Civil Code to answer quick client messages, verifies the answer against the code, and sees no ethical problem if a licensed attorney checks the work. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Says generative AI has a place in legal work but using ChatGPT without guardrails exposes the individual lawyer to unclear professional risk. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | The author would rather review medical records personally than enter them into ChatGPT and risk serious consequences. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | AI is surely being used for medical summaries, but it must be a private version and not ChatGPT. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | Opposes using ChatGPT for medical record summaries because of the risk to client confidentiality. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Summarization | Is concerned that medical record summaries with the person's name and date of birth are being entered into ChatGPT. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Lawyers wrongly fear Claude and ChatGPT while trusting other SaaS tools, even though paid Anthropic and OpenAI terms on retention and disclosure are better. | open |
| May 6, 2026 | r/legaltech | Values | General use | Paid Anthropic and OpenAI contract terms are stricter than those of many practice management tools lawyers already use, so the fear of ChatGPT is misplaced. | open |
| May 5, 2026 | Hacker News | Values | General use | Pro se litigant ran two years of federal litigation on a $20 ChatGPT plan for research, drafting and discovery, and forced a settlement. | open |
| May 2, 2026 | Hacker News | Criticizes | General use | Uploading whole documents with privileged material to ChatGPT or Claude carries a much higher risk of waiving privilege than a generic search query. | open |
| May 2, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Contract review | Opposing counsel returned a separation agreement with about 1,000 edits, leading the author to call ChatGPT the worst development in law practice since email. | open |
| May 1, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | Drafting | Relies on paid ChatGPT for the first draft of most transactional work. | open |
| Apr 30, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Discovery | Recalls court rulings finding attorney-client or work product privilege waived when confidential material was put into an OpenAI system, in a discovery dispute. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Drafting | ChatGPT claimed to produce redlined changes but admitted it could not actually use Word's redline settings. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Drafting | A divorce client used ChatGPT to turn angry messages into professional, constructive replies for co-parenting, which the lawyer thought was a good idea. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Contract review | Clients sent back prenuptial agreements redlined using ChatGPT with meaningless changes and some that harmed them, so the lawyer told them they do not need counsel if they defer to the AI. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Citation checking | Requiring courtesy copies of cases with declarations is unlikely to stop someone from circulating a fake case that ChatGPT invented. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | General use | ChatGPT helps a small firm track case documents and draft emails, but has recently gotten worse at inventing statutes and case law. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | ChatGPT follows instructions and catches details better than Claude on complex work, while Claude is easier to use but misses things. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | Runs research queries against a closed database of statutes and cases pulled from Westlaw to avoid hallucinations, and prefers ChatGPT because it quotes verbatim while Claude sometimes draws loose inferences. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | Legal research | Uses AI occasionally to find corroborating public evidence for war hazard claims and finds ChatGPT does okay while Gemini is poor at the task. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | General use | Author thinks Codex can do research, document review and document work with plain instructions, making Harvey an unnecessary wrapper around ChatGPT. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/biglaw | Values | Drafting | Dumping thoughts into ChatGPT overcomes the blank page and is now the starting point for nearly all drafting, followed by heavy rework. | open |
| Apr 29, 2026 | r/legaltech | Criticizes | Contract review | ChatGPT is skewed toward US public contracts, so it fits poorly when reviewing agreements under another jurisdiction's norms, such as a UK hospital's SaaS contract. | open |
| Apr 26, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | ChatGPT's standard terms of service are problematic for privileged information; only a local model or similar will do if confidentiality is strict. | open |
| Apr 26, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | AI research is not privileged under a recent ruling, so opposing parties could subpoena ChatGPT chat history, which a proxy service helps avoid. | open |
| Apr 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT invented a case with a Westlaw-style citation during introductory research, and the citation pointed to an unrelated document. | open |
| Apr 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Legal research | ChatGPT is pretty bad for law; Claude is a little more accurate, and Lexis and Westlaw AI are slower but reliable on a few key cases. | open |
| Apr 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Mixed | Drafting | Uses ChatGPT for proofreading and a first draft of a complaint to get started, but trusts none of its citations and rewrites the draft. | open |
| Apr 24, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | A personal cloud service is not the same as ChatGPT's cloud, whose terms of service raise client confidentiality concerns. | open |
| Apr 22, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Values | General use | Finds pro se plaintiffs using ChatGPT hard to deal with, but calls AI an incredibly useful tool in many areas of law that still has limits. | open |
| Apr 21, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Clients use ChatGPT and treat its incorrect information as absolute truth, sending demanding emails about claim delays. | open |
| Apr 21, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | General use | Widespread client use of ChatGPT, which often gives wrong information, contributes to unrealistic client expectations. | open |
| Apr 20, 2026 | r/Lawyertalk | Criticizes | Drafting | ChatGPT made weak arguments based on old non-binding case law that forced a redraft before a hearing, but a workflow where lawyers supply authorities, edit and review its output can work. | open |
Alternatives in the same category
Other tools filed under General model, ordered by net score (like minus dislike per 100 voices), each with its 90% band and how many voices it rests on. A tool under 10 voices is listed, not rated. No one pays for a place here.
- Claude+37 net90% band +33 to +41872 voicesChatGPT vs Claude →
- Gemini+28 net90% band +15 to +39134 voicesChatGPT vs Gemini →
- Copilot+5 net90% band −7 to +16155 voices
Three-way comparisons
One page for three tools lawyers look up together.
Head to head
ChatGPT against the tools lawyers look up next to it. All comparisons →
Public benchmarks that name ChatGPT: Vals Legal AI Report: legal research (VLAIR legal research). Other publishers’ figures, with their dates.
Task reports with this tool: Contract review report · Legal research report · Drafting report · Summarization report · Citation checking report
Quarter by quarter
Last 8 quarters. All tools, with the events around each change →
| Quarter | Voices | Share of voice | Net 90% band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q1 | 122 | 52% | +2 −11 to +15 |
| 2025 Q2 | 273 | 55% | −6 −15 to +3 |
| 2025 Q3 | 309 | 51% | −11 −19 to −3 |
| 2025 Q4 | 221 | 45% | −6 −16 to +4 |
| 2026 Q1 | 262 | 35% | −19 −28 to −10 |
| 2026 Q2 | 136 | 17% | −14 −26 to −1 |
| 2026 Q3 | 134 | 17% | −16 −28 to −3 |
| 2026 Q4 | 44 | 23% | −32 −51 to −9 |
By model and version
When a post names the version. Every model →
| Model or version | Family | Posts naming it | Share of family’s model posts | About the family tool | Dislike per 100 90% band | Net 90% band | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026* | First – last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4 | ChatGPT | 95 | 41% | 65 | 28 19–37 | +12 −4 to +28 | 49 | 27 | 12 | 7 | Jan 16, 2023 – Sep 30, 2026 |
| GPT-5 | ChatGPT | 57 | 25% | 23 | 30 17–47 | +13 −16 to +39 | 25 | 32 | May 25, 2025 – Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| GPT-4o | ChatGPT | 40 | 17% | 23 | 17 7–32 | +43 +13 to +65 | 14 | 18 | 8 | May 15, 2024 – Sep 30, 2026 | |
| o3 | ChatGPT | 20 | 9% | 11 | 9 2–31 | +82 +37 to +95 | 20 | Apr 17, 2025 – Sep 13, 2025 | |||
| o1 | ChatGPT | 10 | 4% | 7 | 43 18–72 | 0 −47 to +47 | 2 | 7 | 1 | Oct 20, 2024 – Feb 18, 2026 | |
| GPT-3.5 | ChatGPT | 7 | 3% | 7 | 29 9–58 | +14 −35 to +55 | 6 | 1 | Jan 9, 2023 – Jun 6, 2026 |
What lawyers asked ChatGPT to add, and what shipped
- Private/local or law-firm-specific AI for confidential client data No official shipment found · first asked Mar 15, 2023, 9 voices
- Westlaw/Lexis database access or integration for legal research No official shipment found · first asked May 12, 2023, 5 voices
- Word/DOCX export with correct legal formatting, structure and metadata No official shipment found · first asked Jun 12, 2025, 4 voices
- Cite sources so answers can be fact-checked No official shipment found · first asked Mar 13, 2023, 2 voices
- Reliable review of very long contracts for pertinent language No official shipment found · first asked Sep 13, 2023, 2 voices
- Edit and fix formatting directly inside Word No official shipment found · first asked Nov 29, 2023, 2 voices
25 distinct asks from 45 voices; 0 followed by an official release note we could verify. An ask with no match means we found no official page, not that nothing shipped. Official pages re-read: Oct 22, 2026.
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