USA lawyers got fined $5000 for citing fictitious legal authorities produced by ChatGPT
A U.S. judge has levied a $5,000 fine against two lawyers and their law firm, Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, after they submitted falsified citations in a court filing, which were generated by the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool. The attorneys, Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca, admitted to referencing six fabricated cases in a legal brief against Avianca, a Colombian airline. While the judge acknowledged the legitimacy of using AI for legal assistance, he stressed the lawyers’ responsibility to ensure the accuracy [...]