A Manhattan judge has ordered a law firm to pay a $5,000 fine after it submitted a legal brief containing cases made up by ChatGPT.
Having heard so much about OpenAI’s impressive AI-powered chatbot, lawyer Steven Schwartz decided to use it for research, adding ChatGPT-generated case citations to a legal brief handed to a judge earlier this year. But it soon emerged that the cases had been entirely made up by the chatbot.
Castel continued: “Many harms flow from the submission of fake opinions. The opposing party wastes time and money in exposing the deception. The court’s time is taken from other important endeavors.” At a related court hearing earlier this month, Schwartz said he wanted to “sincerely apologize” for what had happened, explaining that he thought he was using a search engine and had no idea that the AI tool could produce untruths. He said he “deeply regretted” his actions,” adding: “I suffered both professionally and personally [because of] the widespread publicity this issue has generated. I am both embarrassed, humiliated and extremely remorseful.
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