Lawyers Fined $5,000 After ChatGPT Wrote Their Bogus Legal Documents
Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel wrote that the lawyers and their firm, Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, P.C., acted in bad faith and lied to the court in order to cover up their mistakes.
lawyers Peter LoDuca and Steven A. Schwartz then made matters worse for themselves by lying to the court. When the court questioned their made up case law, the judge said Schwartz offered “shifting and contradictory explanations” and LoDuca pretended to be on vacation in a bid for more time. Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, P.C., did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month, Schwartz said at a hearing that he used ChatGPT in his search for legal precedents to support an injury case against the South American airline Avianca for an injury that happened on a flight in 2019. According to documents filed with the legal decision, ChatGPT maintains that its fake case law is real. For example, screenshots show the judge logged into ChatGPT and asked whether a case the lawyers cited is real. The AI responds “Yes,... is a real case,” and suggests you can look it up in the databases Westlaw or LexisNexis.
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