A lawyer who used an artificial intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT to help research a lawsuit is facing possible sanctions after it was found the program had made up false court decisions to support his client’s case. Steven A. Schwartz used information provided by the chatbot to file a suit for his client, Roberto Mata, who claimed he was injured on a flight on Avianca Airlines. After Avianca tried to have the case thrown out, Mata’s lawyers responded with a brief referencing similar cases, including Martinez v. Delta Airlines and Varghese v. China Southern Airlines. But when Avianca’s lawyers and the judge couldn’t find the decisions, Schwartz revealed he had used ChatGPT and believed its content was accurate.
The company mentioned in the article is Avianca Airlines, the defendant in the lawsuit.
The person mentioned in the article is Steven A. Schwartz, the lawyer who used ChatGPT for research in the lawsuit, and his client, Roberto Mata, who claimed he was injured on an Avianca Airlines flight.
