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Metcalf v Hector

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal · VIC · Australia · · [2025] VCAT 367

No weight givenAcknowledged AI output tenderedchat-outputoffered by respondentchallenge: weight

A respondent submitted a Gemini search result about standard fence heights in Australia. VCAT declined to rely on the chatbot statement, finding it did not assist in resolving the factual dispute, and decided the neighbourhood fencing claim on conventional evidence.

The court's finding, in its words

The Gemini search about standard fence heights was not of assistance in determining the claims.

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