Be cautious with ChatGPT especially when it comes to immigration files under humanitarian and refugee grounds!
A smart chatbot is certainly your friend, comrade, and brother nowadays, but in legal matters, it can play a nasty trick on you and completely ruin your application. WHY?
Here are a few points you need to know and absolutely take into account:
1. The chatbot is YOUR SECRETARY!
What does it mean? YOU tell it what facts, grounds, laws, and case law to include, and YOU are the one checking it! The chatbot is not your lawyer, it is just a helper. It creates a draft and makes the language look nice based on the input you provide.
Why do you have to check it? That leads us to point number 2:
2. The chatbot tends to “glitch”
This is a scientifically proven fact. The program learns to “imitate” human imagination, but frankly, it does it poorly. Moreover, the program doesn’t understand where it can and cannot do that. The clearest example of such bad “glitching” is the story of a Norwegian citizen who sued the chatbot this year and demanded the company be fined. The Norwegian asked the chatbot, “Who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?” and received a response claiming that he had killed his two sons and had been sentenced to 21 years in prison. The story was entirely fictional, yet the answer included real details: the city he lived in, the number of children, and the age difference between them.
It is also widely known that ChatGPT invents non-existent legal precedents. That’s why, even when a lawyer inputs a case, the chatbot may generate a “perfectly” looked summary but with completely twisted facts, even for the given case.
3. ChatGPT is massively filling short scientific research with made-up facts.
This is very easy to check: go to Google Scholar and search for “Certainly, here’s” and you’ll get tons of “research papers” stuffed with fake sources, bogus authors, and fabricated data. When asked, the chatbot takes this “information” as fact and continues to cite it based on your prompts.
As a result, your seemingly perfect letter may turn out to be a pile of completely made-up and non-existent information but written nicely and beautifully.
It turns out that today, more than ever, that using your own brain and asking professionals mater the most! Only professionals know the original sources and read them…
Oleksandra Melnykova, Immigration and Refugee Consultant in Canada.
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