A New York lawyer has been ordered to explain why he should not be disciplined after using ChatGPT for legal research.
The original case in question involved a man suing an airline over an alleged personal injury. His legal team, made up of lawyers from the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman submitted a court document on his behalf. The document contained a list of legal cases to prove, using precedent, why the case should be considered.
However upon closer inspection, the airline鈥檚 lawyers said they could not find a number of the cases mentioned in the brief.
鈥淪ix of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,鈥� Judge Castel wrote in an order demanding the man鈥檚 legal team explain itself.
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Despite ChatGPT having a disclaimer that it can produce inaccurate information, the lawyer who used the tool told the court he was 鈥渦naware that its content could be false鈥�.
Mr Schwartz, a lawyer at the firm who prepared the document, said that he 鈥済reatly regrets鈥� using the chatbot, which he had never used before.
He has vowed to never use AI to 鈥渟upplement鈥� his legal research in future 鈥渨ithout absolute verification of its authenticity鈥�.
The event comes as a warning that although AI like ChatGPT is a useful tool for information gathering, it should be used with caution, especially in professional environments.
Whilst it can provide human-like responses, it uses the internet as it was in 2021 as its database meaning some of its information can be outdated.
