According to The New York Times, the lawyer in trouble is Steven Schwartz, who is being resolved in a New York court. Why? For a lawsuit against the airline Avianca made by a passenger who suffered an injury when he was hit with a service cart during a flight.
The point is that Schwartz represents the plaintiff and used ChatGPT to write a brief opposing a defense request to have the case dismissed.
In the lawyer’s document there were several judicial decisions, but since lies have short legs, it did not take long to discover that the well-known chatbot from the OpenAI company had given the professional a hand.
“The Court is facing an unprecedented situation. A filing submitted by the plaintiff’s attorney in opposition to a motion to dismiss (the case) is replete with citations to non-existent cases”wrote Judge Kevin Castel this month. The lawyer himself admitted to having used ChatGPT to prepare the brief and acknowledged that the only verification he had carried out was to ask the application if the cases he cited were real.
On June 8, in which Schwartz will have to try to explain why he should not be sanctioned after having tried to use completely false precedents.
2023-05-28 11:02:15
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