Shock as judge catches lawyer using AI to prepare for case – and chat bot makes fatal error

A LAWYER has been scheduled for a court hearing after he was caught using ChatGPT to conduct legal research.

The lawyer is based in New York and was caught after the information he provided from ChatGPT to support his case turned out to be false.

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The BBC reports that the lawyer claimed that he was “unaware that” ChatGPT’s “content could be false.”

The AI chatbot has been a heavy topic of discussion over the past year.

Its pervasiveness has prompted many to question the future of certain jobs since the bot is capable of producing quick, original, and effective copy within seconds.

Still, the bot’s creators make it clear that it’s still a work in progress and that it’s possible for it to produce information that is not accurate.

The case that’s under review involved a man that was suing an airline after sustaining an injury.

The man’s legal team cited various cases as precedents, showing why he should be remunerated by the airline.

Lawyers representing the airline told the judge that they couldn’t find several of the cases that were referenced.

“Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,” wrote Judge Castel in an order demanding an explanation from the man’s legal team.

Following several reviews, it was revealed that the case had been prepared with the use of ChatGPT.

One of the lawyers had used the tool to find similar cases to the one they were working on.

Steven A. Schwartz, the lawyer who used the chatbot, claimed he’d never worked with the software before.

He said that he “greatly regrets” having used it.

Schwartz pledged that he wouldn’t use it to support his legal research again “without absolute verification of its authenticity”.

This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk