Current Events > Lawyer faces sanction for using ChatGPT in court

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https://www.ibtimes.co.in/chatgpt-cited-bogus-cases-us-lawyer-who-now-faces-sanction-details-859431

ChatGPT has fooled a lawyer into believing that citations given by the AI chatbot in a case against Colombian airline Avianca were real while they were, in fact, bogus.

Lawyer Steven A Schwartz, representing a man who sued an airline, admitted in an affidavit that he had used OpenAI's chatbot for his research, reports The New York Times.

After the opposing counsel pointed out the non-existent cases, US District Judge Kevin Castel confirmed that six of the submitted cases "appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations".

The judge has now set up a hearing as he considers sanctions for the plaintiff's lawyers.

According to Schwartz, he did ask the chatbot if it was lying.
When the lawyer asked for a source, ChatGPT went on to apologise for earlier confusion and insisted the case was real.

ChatGPT also maintained that the other cases it cited were all real.
Schwartz said he was "unaware of the possibility that its content could be false."

He "greatly regrets having utilised generative artificial intelligence to supplement the legal research performed herein and will never do so in the future without absolute verification of its authenticity."

Last month, ChatGPT, as part of a research study, falsely named an innocent and highly-respected law professor in the US on the list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed students in the past.

Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, was left shocked when he realised ChatGPT named him as part of a research project on legal scholars who sexually harassed someone.

"ChatGPT recently issued a false story accusing me of sexually assaulting students," Turkey posted in a tweet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxKnCeyW1w

I found ChatGPT has started to do this more recently. Could it be because of the filters and restrictions the makers have placed on it?

It feels like utter shit now compared to when it first came out. And outright lied to me recently that there was something called "Xenosaga: Testimate", a novel which bridges the gap between 2 and 3, came out in Japan. When I looked online and further interrogated it, it told me it didn't exist and apologized.

Like what the fuck?

There's been multiple news articles about how AI is simply making up their information, with the programmers not understanding why it is happening. And these news articles have been published for months now.

Yet no one seems to give a shit about it. With everyone jumping onboard the AI train and thinking it actually works (ie: is truthful and factual).

People are willingly closing their eyes to this... and doing so eagerly.

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I don't get it, myself.

Lawyer is lazy af. Dude should've researched his case like a real lawyer.

Dumbass was too lazy to verify.

Lmao, what a dummy.

Should be disbarred

You guys know Chatbot cant actually think and make decisions, right?

It just spits out generic results it finds online that matches certain criteria.

I asked it if there was a certain chain pizza place in my town that i knew didnt exist, and it told me not only it did, but other chains that dont even exist in this country did as well.

ChatGPT: Source? Trust me bro.

FortuneCookie posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxKnCeyW1w

love this dude lol

Irony posted...

Should be disbarred

The judge is probably going to send some kind of message. Judges usually don't react well to wasting their time.

_____Cait posted...

You guys know Chatbot cant actually think and make decisions, right?

It just spits out generic results it finds online that matches certain criteria.

I asked it if there was a certain chain pizza place in my town that i knew didnt exist, and it told me not only it did, but other chains that dont even exist in this country did as well.

I think that's the part most people don't get.

https://twitter.com/js_thrill/status/1662266752091160577?t=Huc_sPBfnVgvI3DPor9q4A&s=19