---
title: "Generative AI and Lawyers"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/ai-rules/b12-au-vic-victorian-legal-services-board-generative-ai-and-lawyers"
type: "ai_rule"
site: "AI Law Framework"
issuer: "Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner"
status: "Regulator statement"
jurisdiction: "Victoria"
source: "https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates/news/generative-ai-and-lawyers"
---

# Generative AI and Lawyers

> Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner, Victoria.

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## About this rule

- Issuer: Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner
- Body type: Regulator
- Type: Regulator statement
- Date: 28 September 2023
- Date basis: 2023-09-28
- Date on the page: 2023-09-28
- Confidence: High
- Jurisdiction: [Victoria](https://ailawframework.com/jurisdictions/victoria.md)

## Summary

Early VLSB+C commentary (28 September 2023) on ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms: how they work, accuracy limits and the ethical rules that apply when lawyers use them.

## Points recorded from the source

- ChatGPT is a generalist tool, not trained to give accurate legal answers, and is optimised for fluency over accuracy
- Lawyers remain responsible for the accuracy of any text they generate
- Recommends lawyers gain a basic understanding of generative AI, its uses and risks

## Verify note

Historic (2023) statement; later superseded in practice by the Dec 2024 joint Statement on AI in legal practice.

## Source

[Read the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner source](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates/news/generative-ai-and-lawyers)

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