Tag: Sanctions

A lawyer got tricked by an AI tool while using fabricated legal cases in court. ChatGPT created bogus judicial decisions with quoted text. A judge questioned how he missed it, calling it legal gibberish while the hearing went undecided.

A lawyer used an AI chatbot to prepare a court filing with fake cases leading to unprecedented circumstances. Legal professionals raise concerns about using AI in the legal field while highlighting potential risks in politics and education. Why should we not allow people to use AI for drafting court documents?

A New York lawyer apologizes for submitting fabricated court documents using AI-generated cases and rulings from ChatGPT. The lawyer stated the false citations supported why a case against Avianca airline should proceed. This regrettable mistake was his first time using AI for legal research.

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 New York lawyer in hot water after being accused of filing a document with fake judicial opinions & quotes. He claimed that a legal research program called ChatGPT was to blame. The lawyer misunderstood that it was an AI program that could fabricate citations. Sanctions pending.