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• But not everyone can afford to pay for legal advice.
• We put the chatbots to the test in a recent study published in the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education.
• We entered the same six legal questions on family, employment, consumer and housing law into ChatGPT 3.5 (free version), ChatGPT 4 (paid version), Microsoft Bing and Google Bard.
• We found that these tools can indeed provide legal advice, but the answers were not always reliable or accurate.

1. Where is the law from?

• The first answers the chatbots provided were often based on American law.
• Without legal knowledge, the user would likely assume the law related to where they live.
• If necessary, we used one additional question: “is there any English law that covers this problem?” We had to use this instruction for most of the questions, and then the chatbot produced an answer based on English law.

2. Out of date law

We also found that sometimes the answer to our question referred to out of date law, which has been replaced by new legal rules. For example, the divorce law changed in April 2022 to remove fault-based divorce in England and Wales.
Some responses referred to the old law. AI chatbots are trained on large volumes of data – we don’t always know how current the data is, so it may not include the most recent legal developments.

3. Bad advice

• We found most of the chatbots gave incorrect or misleading advice when dealing with the family and employment queries.
• The answers to the housing and consumer questions were better, but there were still gaps in the responses.
• We found that the answers produced by the AI chatbots were well-written, which could make them appear more convincing.

4. Too generic

• In our study, the answers didn’t provide enough detail for someone to understand their legal issue and know how to resolve them.
• The answers provided information on a topic rather than specifically addressing the legal question.

5. Pay to play

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