“Lawyers in the United States blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing fake court cases”, ABC.Net, June 9, 2023:
“Two lawyers in the United States have blamed artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing.
Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that Mr Schwartz thought were real, but were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.
Mr Schwartz explained to a Manhattan federal court judge that he used the program as he hunted for legal precedents supporting a client’s case against the Colombian airline Avianca for an injury incurred on a 2019 flight…..”
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