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Commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has played down a BBC report that it has blocked general access to several artificial intelligence (AI) tools after it found a “significant increase in usage” by staff.
The BBC said it had seen an email from the firm’s chief technology officer which warned staff about the use of AI tools and said it was only granting access to AI tools via a request process.
It quoted an Information Commissioner’s Office spokesperson saying that firms should not discourage the use of AI in work.
Hill Dickinson had detected more than 32,000 hits to ChatGPT over a seven-day period in January and February, and more than 3,000 visits to the Chinese AI service DeepSeek, as well as almost 50,000 hits to Grammarly, the writing assistance tool.
However, it is understood that these were not individual instances but inputted prompts, where multiple prompts were likely to have happened in a single session.
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