Judge sanctions attorneys for failed reality check
Attorneys who filed court documents citing cases completely invented by OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been formally slapped down by a New York judge.
Judge Kevin Castel on Thursday issued an opinion and order on sanctions [PDF] that found Peter LoDuca, Steven A. Schwartz, and the law firm of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman P.C. had “abandoned their responsibilities when they submitted non-existent judicial opinions with fake quotes and citations created by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question.”
Yes, you got that right: the lawyers asked ChatGPT for examples of past cases to include in their legal filings, the bot just made up some previous proceedings, and the attorneys slotted those in to help make their argument and submitted it all as usual. That is not going to fly.
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