{"id":206808,"date":"2026-04-28T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/deponents-use-of-a-i-to-answer-deposition-questions-barred-chatgpt-was-not-an-attorney-edrm-electronic-discovery-reference-model\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:35:14","slug":"deponents-use-of-a-i-to-answer-deposition-questions-barred-chatgpt-was-not-an-attorney-edrm-electronic-discovery-reference-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/deponents-use-of-a-i-to-answer-deposition-questions-barred-chatgpt-was-not-an-attorney-edrm-electronic-discovery-reference-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Deponent\u2019s Use of A.I. to Answer Deposition Questions Barred; ChatGPT Was Not an Attorney | EDRM &#8211; Electronic Discovery Reference Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/deponent-s-use-of-a-i-to-answer-7503271\/\">Deponent\u2019s Use of A.I. to Answer Deposition Questions Barred; ChatGPT Was Not an Attorney | EDRM &#8211; Electronic Discovery Reference Model<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/deponent-s-use-of-a-i-to-answer-7503271\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/deponent-s-use-of-a-i-to-answer-7503271\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 15:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are 7 key points from the article regarding the case of Jones v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the case, Ms. Jones, who was pro se, used an AI platform named ChatGPT during her deposition.<br \/>\n&#8211; The court determined that her use of AI to answer questions during the deposition was not permissible.<br \/>\n&#8211; The court also clarified that since Jones was not represented by an attorney, she could not cite attorney-client privilege as a reason to refuse answering questions related to her use of AI.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite multiple accommodations and deadlines, Jones failed to complete discovery which led to the dismissal of her case with prejudice.<br \/>\n&#8211; The deposition became contentious as Delta&#8217;s counsel raised issues about Jones\u2019s use of AI and unauthorized recording during the deposition.<br \/>\n&#8211; The court explicitly stated Jones could not use AI tools like ChatGPT to assist her in answering deposition questions.<br \/>\n&#8211; The dismissal of Jones\u2019s case was justified based on her persistent noncompliance with court orders and discovery obligations.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deponent\u2019s Use of A.I. to Answer Deposition Questions Barred; ChatGPT Was Not an Attorney |&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.16197_0825.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206810,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206808\/revisions\/206810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}