
In Sally Mclaren & Lily Rowe, “You’re right to be skeptical!”: The Role of Legal Information Professionals in Assessing Generative AI Outputs, 25 Legal Info. Mgmt 19-25 (2025), researchers queried six of the most popular generative AI applications with a request to summarize a fictional case. Both paid and free versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and Google's Gemini 1.5, as well as free versions of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet, Meta's Llama AI, Microsoft's Copilot, and Perplexity's model, were tested.
The first query to each AI chatbot was, "Summarize Johnson v. Smith & Co [2015] EWCA Civ 1230." To be clear, there is no such case anywhere. There were two follow-up prompts: "Where did you get this information?" and, "Is this case made up?"
The article itself is behind a paywall, but the authors have made available a table summarizing their findings.