QTR v BXD ([2025] NZERA 716)
Employment Relations Authority · Nov 7, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- Employment Relations Authority
- Record ID
- qtr-v-bxd-2025-nzera-716-2025-11-07
- Observed outcome
- The Authority granted interim non-publication orders and issued a compliance order requiring QTR to cease uploading or copying the respondent's confidential information into any Open AI platform.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The Authority issued a compliance order against the applicant, QTR, prohibiting the further uploading of the respondent's confidential information into any Open AI platform. This followed a finding that QTR breached confidentiality obligations by using ChatGPT to generate submissions containing fabricated case law and sensitive company data.
Fabricated: Case Law | Lengthy document submitted by QTR contained numerous non-existent case citations described by the Authority as 'hallucinated' legal cases asserted as authority. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Document included incorrectly cited cases and mis-citations (real cases cited incorrectly), which the Authority identified as part of the AI-generated errors.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in Employment Relations Authority, with the listed outcome: no adjudicated outcome recorded.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Employment
- Trial
- None Adjudicated
- AI attribution
- Admitted
- Recorded tool
- ChatGPT
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Determination of the Employment Relations Authority regarding an application for a compliance order and interim non-publication orders.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The Authority identified the use of ChatGPT via formatting markers.
Retained unchanged after audit: the existing summary is source-specific, non-placeholder, and supported by the recorded source link. Read the underlying source before relying on it for legal advice or a filing.
Latest evidence review: Primary Document Verified (high confidence).
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.
- Confirm that every authority actually supports the proposition for which it is offered.