Lawyer Steven A. Schwartz admitted in an affidavit that he had used OpenAI’s chatbot for his research. To verify the cases, he did the only reasonable thing: he asked the chatbot if it was lying. When he asked for a source,

A lawyer representing a man in a personal injury lawsuit in federal court has thrown himself on the mercy of the court after he used ChatGPT.

The meteoric rise of ChatGPT is shaking up multiple industries – including law. A lawyer for a man suing Avianca Airlines apologized in court after at least six cases as research for a brief were bogus,

He relied on ChatGPT in his legal filings and the AI chatbot completely manufactured previous cases, which Schwartz cited, out of thin air. It all starts with the case in question, Mata v. Avianca. According to the New York Times,

In a court filing, the judge of the case said that six of the cases cited "appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes."

A New York lawyer has been forced to admit he used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to carry out legal research after it referenced several made-up court cases. Steven Schwartz, who works for Levidow,