In a candid chat with about 30 law students across law schools on their experience of ChatGPT for and what exactly they utilise the tool for, it came to light that 29% students used the tool for summarising concepts or notes. Students opined that the responses can pass off as human.
54% used the tool for studying and found it particularly helpful for conceptual clarifications. 50% students used the tool for research and 47% used it for creating content while writing e-mails, blogs and projects.
Of these, 82% students found the tool useful, while 18% felt otherwise. In terms of the reliability of the output, 47% reported positively, while 24% responded negatively given its tendency to hallucinate and produce fake case laws.
Another 21% students mentioned that the reliability of the output depends from instance to instance. In the case of complex prompts, the accuracy of the output needs to be cross-verified, and sometimes the content gets repeated after the first 500 words of response to a prompt.
Source: Barandbench
