Aleto Beheer BV v. Venlo Municipality

Council of State of the Netherlands · Netherlands · 2025-01-29 · ECLI:NL:RVS:2025:335

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Aleto filed a late supplementary document with ChatGPT-based claims about environmental zoning and real-estate values. The Dutch Council of State refused to treat the opaque, unverified output as evidence in a technical valuation dispute and dismissed the appeal.

The court's finding, in its words

ChatGPT statements without the prompt, sources, or verification could not replace an independent valuation expert.

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Decision: uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: Damien Charlotin acknowledged-AI-output lead CSV (CC0)
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