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Côté et Placements J.F. Desgagné inc. Tribunal administratif du travail · QC · Canada · 2026-03-26 · 2026 QCTAT 1311
Excluded Acknowledged AI output tendered chat-output offered by applicant challenge: weight sensitive matter — ruling only
A self-represented worker filed voluminous Google AI material on medical and legal issues. The Tribunal found the outputs unreliable because sources were not tied to answers, authors and expertise were unknown, and the material lacked contextualization, excluding it and relying on medical records and testimony.
Rules cited: Quebec administrative evidence principles
The court's finding, in its words Le Tribunal n'accorde aucune valeur probante aux réponses générées par l'IA. Short verbatim extract (≤25 words) for identification; the judgment is linked below and is the record.
Decision canlii.org Read 2026-09-07 · primary document readFound via Damien Charlotin acknowledged-AI-output lead CSV (CC0) Notes CanLII page could not be independently read by script; downloaded lead PDF copy was read. No alleged media is hosted or linked. Where the court found material genuine or fabricated, the finding is the court's; where a party merely alleged it, this page says so. Publication restrictions have not yet been checked for this row. This record summarises a public court document or official publication and reports what it says; SafeLegalAI makes no findings of its own. Individuals and organisations are named only as they appear in that public record. Anyone named may send a right of reply, correction or contextual update (for example an appeal, vacatur or later disposition) via /report; we add a dated note where appropriate. Reply or correct this record .
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