Source: Above The Law
By Joe Patrice
The highly publicized misfortune of Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca may have just saved another lawyer from the same fate. MAYBE. Schwartz infamously used ChatGPT to conduct legal research to respond to a motion to dismiss and his colleague Peter LoDuca signed his name to the affirmation before shooting it off to federal court. The problem: neither of these jokers bothered to independently look up the case cites ChatGPT provided. Instead, they compounded the error by apparently asking ChatGPT to confirm the research, which is like asking Donald Trump to confirm that he’s checked for classified documents. Whenever the generative AI tool can dig itself deeper, it will. After ChatGPT spit out superficially real-ish but entirely fake opinions, the lawyers went ahead and filed those and now find themselves in a whole mess of trouble…
Read full article: https://abovethelaw.com/2023/06/lawyer-figures-out-chatgpt-made-up-fake-cases-in-his-brief-on-day-of-hearing/
