Romig, Jennifer Murphy, The Ethics of ChatGPT: A Legal Writing and Ethics Professor’s Perspective (February 18, 2023). Emory Legal Studies Research Paper , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4373550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4373550

“Teaching law students requires meeting them where they are, envisioning what they can become, and offering appropriate education and advice for their developmental journey. ChatGPT is not a person, but this essay will to some extent personify ChatGPT in discussing how it might be developed before it is used for client work. ChatGPT and A.I. text generators don’t “learn”, but they can be programmed, prompted, and trained. Everyone realizes their potential to become pervasive and ubiquitous in the legal field and, indeed, in every field that relies on the production and exchange of words. But pervasive and ubiquitous does not necessarily mean ethical or effective. So far in using ChatGPT, I have seen a broad range of embarrassingly wrong output and really promising output. My comments here are offered in the spirit of what I’d like to see from ChatGPT.”