Christopher Duff faces charges after allegedly using AI to create scraper code for bulk downloading restricted court documents from a NSW courts website data breach. Prosecutors plan to use ChatGPT conversations as evidence in what may be Australia's first case relying on generative AI records to prove motive and criminal conduct.
Christopher Duff, 40, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of accessing restricted data from a NSW courts website. Prosecutors allege he used ChatGPT to create web scraper code to bulk download 8,769 restricted documents and sought legal advice from the AI platform, in what is believed to be an Australian-first use of generative AI evidence in prosecution.