A staggering 800 million people use ChatGPT on a weekly basis, according to parent company OpenAI.

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Jackie Combs, family and divorce attorney at Blank Rome, has noticed her clients going to the bot for help with sensitive issues as well. Combs represents high-net-worth clients like model Emily Ratajkowski.

“One of the things that I am seeing with a lot of younger generation, millennials and Gen Z particularly,” she says, “is they are turning to ChatGPT for legal advice.”

It’s something Combs advises against.

While she doesn’t know which websites ChatGPT culls it’s information from, when clients send her the bot’s legal analyses, she sees that they’re not always accurate.

ChatGPT does not take into account “the complex nature that is different to everybody’s case,” she says. “And in many cases, it’s incorrectly applying the law.”

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"Millennials and Gen Z Are Using ChatGPT for Legal Advice: It’s a Bad Idea, Divorce Lawyer Says—Here’s Why," by Gili Malinsky was published in CNBC Make It on November 7, 2025.