NYC judge scolds attorney for submitting a brief filled with unintelligible legal jargon created using ChatGPT bot, while lawyer blames the robot claiming it duped him.

A New York City judge has reprimanded two personal injury lawyers for using an AI-powered search engine to fill a legal brief with completely fake cases. Steven Schwartz, from law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, said he used the device to argue that Colombian airline Avianca should not have its lawsuit for compensation dismissed. One of the defendants argued that Schwartz should now face sanctions, warning of the ethical dangers hidden in the case. Schwartz explained in Manhattan’s federal court that he had thought he was using a search engine that was searching [cases] that I didn’t have access to. The judge will determine whether to take action against Schwartz.