US lawyers fined $5000 over use of ChatGPT in court

A district judge in Manhattan fined two lawyers and a law firm $5000 over the use of fake quotes in court generated by ChatGPT.

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According to the opinion, Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman provided bogus legal cases in an aviation injury suit. Schwartz admitted that ChatGPT invented the six cases it referred to.

Judge P. Kevin Castel said there was nothing "inherently improper"" in using artificial intelligence to help with legal work. However, lawyers should keep an eye on the accuracy of their documents.

Earlier, lawyers were suspected of using non-existent court cases as arguments. It emerged that Schwartz was unable to find related documents in the usual way and used ChatGPT to do so.

The judge said one of the forged decisions had "some traits that are superficially consistent with actual judicial decisions". However, other documents contained "gibberish".

Source: The Guardian