Indian Courts Highlight Need for Guidelines on AI Use in Legal Drafting and Citations

Indian courts and tribunals have raised concerns over the use of generative AI in legal drafting, highlighting instances where fabricated or irrelevant case citations have appeared in judicial orders. The Gujarat High Court issued notices to GST officials for relying on AI-generated, non-existent, or unrelated judgments in a tax dispute. While AI offers efficiency, its tendency to produce inaccurate legal references has prompted calls for formal guidelines to regulate its use in judicial and quasi-judicial processes to maintain trust and accuracy.