A lawyer has come under fire for adding fake court cases to legal documents using generative AI tool ChatGPT. Steven Schwartz, a lawyer at Levidow, Levidow, & Oberman, admitted to using the AI system to help write court filings in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, however, six of the citations provided by the tool turned out to be bogus cases. Federal Judge Kevin Castel has scheduled a hearing on the matter on June 8, and the lawyers involved will have to explain why they should not be penalized or sanctioned for the fake submissions.
Levidow, Levidow, & Oberman is a law firm based in New York. They have not yet commented on the incident.
Steven Schwartz is a lawyer in the Levidow, Levidow, & Oberman firm who cited six fake cases made up by a machine learning language model called ChatGPT. Schwartz has come under fire for failing to verify the sources provided by ChatGPT and allowing the submission of court documents with false information.
