Tag: Avianca Airlines

Attorney Steven Schwartz of law firm Levidow, Levidow and Oberman faced consequences for using ChatGPT to generate a false brief during a case against the Columbian airline Avianca. As a result, a hearing was scheduled to discuss the sanctions and OpenAI’s program sparked of fear among the professions. Read on to learn more about this legal case.

Need to research court cases for your legal practice? Take care to verify accuracy: a New York lawyer was recently ordered to a court hearing for submitting a 10-page brief with references that included fabricated court cases generated by AI-powered ChatGPT.

Attorney Steven Schwartz recently faced an unexpected legal predicament when the court cases he had submitted were found to be untrue. Avianca Airlines had sued him for negligence, due to his lack of verification of the content from ChatGPT, an AI-powered legal research chatbot. Schwartz now faces a sanctions hearing for utilizing generative artificial intelligence without confirming its accuracy. Reminding users to be extra careful and verify legal research from reputable databases, this case serves as a cautionary tale.