Two lawyers are appearing before a US District Judge to defend their use of an AI chatbot to generate false cases for a lawsuit. They claim it was a good faith workaround as Westlaw and LexisNexis were unavailable. The product in question was OpenAI's ChatGPT, causing some amusement. It is uncertain if one lawyer will be punished for the chatbot's production of extended excerpts and fake case quotations.
A lawyer's reliance on artificial intelligence software ChatGPT proved problematic, with fake court cases and quotes in the legal brief. This case highlights the need for validating AI outputs. The affected legal firm now stresses this point in its AI training, and the case has become a topic of conversation in the legal world. The lawyer involved threw himself on the mercy of the court, stating that he did not know the content could be fake.
Two lawyers face a court hearing for using ChatGPT, an AI-based tool, in legal research. Peter LoDuca and Steven A Schwartz's firm reportedly used the tool, unaware of its inaccuracies. Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, the company behind ChatGPT, provides the best legal advice and representation. Verify accuracy of AI tools to ensure reliable representation.
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