Real estate agent slammed for using AI in fight to save career
A Gold Coast real estate agent has been called out for repeatedly using generative artificial intelligence to argue her case in a tribunal, despite it spitting out fake legal precedents.
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A Gold Coast real estate agent has been called out for using answers made up by generative AI in a tribunal fight to keep her career.
Carly Dakota Wise, from Wise and Wise Real Estate Pty Ltd, repeatedly depended on the legal arguments she got from AI, despite it spitting out fake legal precedents and citations of irrelevant cases.
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal judicial members Ray Rinaudo and Danielle Brown, in a decision on May 13, criticised Ms Wise for continuing to use AI despite previously being warned she was submitting “inaccurate citations and non-existent cases”.
“This includes advising Ms Wise that the cases of TCT v Office of the Health Ombudsman, Re Bowen and Brock v Medical Board do not appear to be genuine cases and the citations she has provided belong to other irrelevant cases,” the ruling read.
“Despite being advised of this, Ms Wise has again sought to provide submissions to the tribunal with these false case citations.”
Ms Wise has spent 3½ years in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal fighting the state’s justice department, which is trying to disqualify her and her company from holding any form of licence or registration as a real estate agent.
Mr Rinaudo and Ms Brown made the comments as part of the decision to refuse Ms Wise’s fourth attempt to force Ms Brown to be recused from the case.
Four cases which Ms Wise claimed supported her application did not exist, and the citations provided belonged to other cases on unrelated issues, the decision stated.
The decision quoted from court guidelines warning litigants generative AI chatbots can make up fake cases, citations and quotes, or refer to legislation, articles or legal texts that do not exist.
Ms Wise unsuccessfully argued Ms Brown had shown persistent bias, hostility and disregard for procedural fairness and repeated factual and legal errors.
The three prior recusal applications were all refused.
Mr Rinaudo and Ms Brown concluded that Ms Wise’s claim that Ms Brown relied on incorrect facts and incorrect law and made misstatements was not supported by the evidence.
“Even if this was the case, the correct course of action would be to appeal the decision,” they wrote.
They also rejected Ms Wise’s allegations against Ms Brown of collusion, attempts to pervert the course of justice and misfeasance.
“Disagreement with a ruling made by a judge or tribunal member does not establish bias or apprehended bias,” the decision stated.
“I do not consider Ms Wise has established any basis upon which a fair-minded observer would consider Member D. Brown has formed any fixed views about the disciplinary proceedings or Ms Wise that are incapable of alteration, or that she might not bring an impartial mind to the determination of the disciplinary proceedings.”
The substantive hearing of the matter was due to happen this month.
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