The legal eagles at New York-based Cuddy Law tried using OpenAI’s chatbot, despite its penchant for lying and spouting nonsense, to help justify their hefty fees for a recently won trial, a sum the losing side is expected to pay.
NYC federal district Judge Paul Engelmayer, however, rejected the submitted amount, awarded less than half of what Cuddy requested, and added a sharp rebuke to the lawyers for using ChatGPT to cross-check the figures. The briefs basically cited ChatGPT’s output to support their stated hourly rate, which does depend on things like the level and amount of research, preparation, and other work involved.
Cuddy told the court “its requested hourly rates are supported by feedback it received from the artificial intelligence tool ‘ChatGPT-4,'” Engelmayer wrote in his order [PDF], referring to the GPT-4 version of OpenAI’s bot.
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