The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal, Kyiv, considered an appeal by Epicenter K LLC, where the company asked the court to refute or confirm the circumstances established by the previous court decision based on the answers generated by ChatGPT.
The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal, Kyiv, considered an appeal by Epicenter K LLC, where the company asked the court to refute or confirm the circumstances established by the previous court decision based on the answers generated by ChatGPT.
Last year, the Uman City Council filed a lawsuit against Epicenter K LLC with the Commercial Court of Cherkasy Region. The issue concerned rent for land plots that are in the communal property of the community.
In November, the Cherkasy court upheld the city council's lawsuit. But the company disagreed with the decision and appealed to the Northern Economic Court of Appeal.
In March 2025, the Uman City Council sent a response to the appeal with a request to leave it unsatisfied and the appealed decision unchanged.
The following month, the court received a statement from Epicenter K, in which the company reported that in its response to the appeal, the city council provided arguments and explanations that contradicted the actual circumstances of the dispute and the terms of the contract.
In response, the Uman City Council sent an objection to the application of Epicenter K LLC, in which it pointed out the use of ChatGPT.
"The generalized arguments of the objections boil down to the fact that the applicant actually asks the appellate court to refute or confirm the circumstances established by the court of first instance, based on the answers to the outlined question generated by the artificial intelligence "ChatGPT", which is not recognized as a source of reliable scientifically proven information, in contrast to the conclusions made by the court of first instance in the court decision. In this way, the applicant questions the judicial discretion and judicial interpretation of this issue in the decision that has acquired the status of final, thereby disregarding the authority of the judiciary," the court's ruling states .
Following the results of the appeal, the Northern Economic Court of Appeal left the decision of the Cherkasy court unchanged, and also agreed with the plaintiff's arguments regarding ChatGPT.
